HP DeskJet 5740, CUPS and The GIMP

John T. Moran jtmo3 at sbcglobal.net
Sun May 8 17:08:04 UTC 2005


Anders Karlsson wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I have recently acquired a HP DeskJet 5740 to replace an older printer
>that died, and as linuxprinting.org reported this printer as fully
>functional with the hpijs driver, I bought it. And the printer does work
>very well indeed, apart from in one scenario that I have found.
>
>I am printing to this printer from my laptop to the server where the
>printer is physically attached via USB. It is CUPS all the way to handle
>printing.
>
>The problem I am having is that while I can dump a .png or a .jpg to the
>printer, as well as using enscript to produce a .ps to print and all
>that is working, I can not print from the GIMP at all. On the paper all
>I get is a line and a half of plain text.
>
>Has anyone managed to get this printer working fully in the GIMP?
>
>
>Kind Regards,
>
>  
>

Have you tried going into the printer setup in the Gimp print screen and 
taking the , I believe, -oraw setting off the end of the command line? 
That worked for me in another distro. Haven't had that problem with 
Ubuntus Gimp.

John





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