[Wylug-discuss] RE: CUPS -aarrrgggg + hp-ijs

[Roger Leigh]

"Scorer, Paul             [IES]" <P.Scorer at leedsmet.ac.uk> writes:

> Almost certainly OT but I have an ancient djet500 which I use for draft
> prints.
>
> Under Fedora Core 1 (aka --RedHat10??), the "recommended driver" is hpijs.
> But *it doesn't work* - all printing is squashed to the LHS: like no NULLs
> being transmitted (or possibly ignored colour data?)
>
> Gimp-print, gimp-print-ijs or djet500 are OK
>
> Maybe someone else still has a dj500?
> Mine still soldiers on !

It the page ½ or 1/8 of its original width?  If so, this is likely
(internal) problem with the input data format.  For example, if I
input my image as 1-bit monochrome, but the driver thinks it's 8-bit
greyscale, it will be compressed horizontally by a factor of eight.
The same applies to 32-bit CMYK vs 8-bit RGB etc.  Gimp-Print had a
bug like this a year or so back under certain unusual conditions.

Please do take the time to file a bug against hpijs, either with hpijs
or your distribution's hpijs package.  This will get the problem
fixed.


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Roger Leigh

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