Post F38 upgrade/install printing in mirror image from HP P3015

[Max Pyziur]

Greetings,

I'm stumbling through both an F38 upgrade and a new installation (the 
latter due to an F38 major upgrade problem). Thankfully, data has been 
saved and recovered.

But problems arise (sort of like knowing how to drive a 2000 model year 
vehicle and then being confronted with a 2020 model year one).

Two problems:
1) On both machines, printing to my HP P3015 produces a mirror image when 
printing from a browser.

2) When using paps to print text files, the result is raw postscript, 
meaning multiple pages when one was expected.

Advice?

Max

[George N. White III]

On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:43 AM Max Pyziur  wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I'm stumbling through both an F38 upgrade and a new installation (the
> latter due to an F38 major upgrade problem). Thankfully, data has been
> saved and recovered.
>
> But problems arise (sort of like knowing how to drive a 2000 model year
> vehicle and then being confronted with a 2020 model year one).
>
> Two problems:
> On both machines, printing to my HP P3015 produces a mirror image when
>
> printing from a browser.

Have you tried Fedora's hplip.x86_64 (HP Linux Imaging and Printing
Project) package?
> When using paps to print text files, the result is raw postscript,
>
> meaning multiple pages when one was expected.
>
> Do you mean that the printout is the PostScript code, or that you want to

select
one page from a lengthy text file?
> Advice?
>
> Max
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[Max Pyziur]

On Sat, 29 Apr 2023, George N. White III wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 27, 2023 at 11:43 AM Max Pyziur  wrote:
>       Greetings,
>   I'm stumbling through both an F38 upgrade and a new installation (the
>   latter due to an F38 major upgrade problem). Thankfully, data has been
>   saved and recovered.
>
>   But problems arise (sort of like knowing how to drive a 2000 model year
>   vehicle and then being confronted with a 2020 model year one).
>
>   Two problems:
>   1) On both machines, printing to my HP P3015 produces a mirror image when
>   printing from a browser.

I've reinstalled drivers on both the desktop (uses the HP postscript 
driver) and the laptop (using HP LaserJet p3010 Series hpijs pcl3, 
3.22.10) and on both machines when printing from a browser or libreoffice 
or gedit the results are correct.
> Have you tried Fedora's hplip.x86_64 (HP Linux Imaging and Printing Project) package?
>   2) When using paps to print text files, the result is raw postscript,
>   meaning multiple pages when one was expected.
>
> Do you mean that the printout is the PostScript code, or that you want to select
> one page from a lengthy text file?

The problem arises using paps.

I issue the command:
paps --columns=2 --landscape --paper=letter --font="Monospace 5" 
/path/to/some/textfile | lpr -P lp3

On my laptop I get raw postscript (no longer in mirror image format.

On my desktop I get raw postscript mirror imaged.

Originally, I used enscript. When utf-8 characters were not printing 
correctly, someone recommended paps, and through F37 it worked correctly.

Thanks.
>   Advice?
>
>   Max
>
> --
> George N. White III

Max