Printing headache

[Tony Arnold]

Nick,

I have a Deskjet 3820 and it works fine. It looks to me like the print
system is not converting the PostScript output to the language of the
printer. The DeskJet series does not understand PostScript natively
SFAIK.

If you look in Computer->System Configuration->Printing dialgue box and
right click on the printer and select Properties, what do you see as the
Driver under the driver tab (the one which has manufacturer and model
options too)? For the 3820, mine says hpijs (suggested); and I suspect
the 5650 needs a the same or similar driver.

Regards,
Tony.

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 17:53 +0900, toyfactory wrote:
> Still no joy with the printer.  I'm running a fairly basic Warty (!)
> installation.  I have a USB DeskJet 5650, I've installed the driver
> using the System Configuration Printing window and successfully printed
> a test page.  I can print from GEdit but I can't print from three very
> important applications.  I've downloaded the two extra packages from
> universe as suggested earlier without success.  Here's what's happening
> (or rather not happening):
> 
> Printing from Gimp
> 
> I load up a picture I want to print and go File, Print... My printer
> appears on the Printer Name drop down menu, great.  PostScript Level
> 2 seems to be the default Printer Model but never mind, I'll try it.
> It doesn't work.  The printer prints one page which says something
> like "%!PS-Adobe-3. %%BoundingBox Yadda yadda yadda" and then starts
> spitting out blank pages until I turn the printer off.  So I try the
> Setup Printer... button.  I can't find my printer there so what
> should I do?  The print command looks like this: lp -s -dDeskJet-
> 5650 -oraw and the PPD file I downloaded earlier looks like this:
> /home/nick/HP-DeskJet_5650-hpijs.ppd
> 
> Printing from Open Office
> 
> I go to Open Office Printer Administration.  My printer appears there as
> the default printer, the command: lpr, the driver: DeskJet-5650
> (CUPS:DeskJet-
> 5650).  I click Test page, and wait.  The dialog box tells me "The test
> page was printed successfully."  Nothing happens.  I try and print a few
> times from OO, nothing happens.  I check the print configuration to see
> if there are jobs waiting to print.  Nothing.
> 
> Printing from Firefox
> 
> I click Print.  The only printer on the menu is Postscript/default, that
> works - it produces a .ps file.  But I want to print directly to the
> printer - how do I add my printer to the Firefox menu?  A little bit of
> web searching suggests maybe I need to install Xprint from universe.
> 
> Any assistance appreciated,
> 
> Nick
> 
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