When I print a page with Image Quality -> Resolution at 300 dpi everything works fine, but when I print at Image Quality -> Resolution at 600 dpi everything prints twice as large as it ought to with resolution (I believe) at 300 dpi. The page that's printed shows only the upper left quarter of the image that should be printed. I've had this problem in the past (Fedora-15), but only with the Gimp and Gutenprint; now it happens all the time.
System Info:
4 CPU x86_64 hardware Fedora-16 with all updates installed KDE 4.7.3 cups-1.5.0-22.fc16.x86_64 Brother HL1440 Printer Default printer resolution is 300 dpi
Any suggestions?
On Tue, 2011-11-29 at 22:13 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
When I print a page with Image Quality -> Resolution at 300 dpi everything works fine, but when I print at Image Quality -> Resolution at 600 dpi everything prints twice as large as it ought to with resolution (I believe) at 300 dpi. The page that's printed shows only the upper left quarter of the image that should be printed. I've had this problem in the past (Fedora-15), but only with the Gimp and Gutenprint; now it happens all the time.
System Info:
4 CPU x86_64 hardware Fedora-16 with all updates installed KDE 4.7.3 cups-1.5.0-22.fc16.x86_64 Brother HL1440 Printer Default printer resolution is 300 dpi
A little more about the printer driver:
General Info: Description:Brother HL-1440 series Location:Next to computer Driver:Brother HL-1440 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.7 (grayscale, 2-sided printing) Connection:usb://Brother/HL-1440%20series Defaults:job-sheets=none, none media=na_letter_8.5x11in sides=one-sided
Default options: Media Size: Letter Color Model: Grayscale Color Precision: Normal Media Source: Standard Print Quality: Standard Resolution: Automatic 2-Sided Printing: Off Shrink Page If Necessary to Fit Borders: Shrink (print the whole page)
Any suggestions?
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 00:58 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
Any suggestions?
Could you please try a different driver? In particular, the Foomatic/hl1250 driver is the recommended driver for this model. Does that give you any better results?
How is it that you're using the Gutenprint driver?
Tim. */
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 10:06 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 00:58 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
Any suggestions?
Could you please try a different driver? In particular, the Foomatic/hl1250 driver is the recommended driver for this model. Does that give you any better results?
How is it that you're using the Gutenprint driver?
Using the Foomatic/hl1250 driver cures the problem. "Print with Gutenprint" in Gimp has the same problem. It looks like a bug in the Gutenprint driver, at least for this printer. Do you think I should file it on the Cups Bugzilla.
I'm not sure exactly why I used the Gutenprint driver. As best I remember it, when I upgraded to Fedora-16, which was done with a full install on Nov. 9th, either Gutenprint was the default driver for the printer, or was recommended, or no driver was recommended.
Thanks - jon
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 08:53 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I'm not sure exactly why I used the Gutenprint driver. As best I remember it, when I upgraded to Fedora-16, which was done with a full install on Nov. 9th, either Gutenprint was the default driver for the printer, or was recommended, or no driver was recommended.
Could you show the output of su -c 'lpinfo -l -v' please? It sounds like we have the wrong IEEE 1284 Device ID for this device, or else we have that ID assigned to the wrong model.
Thanks, Tim. */
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 11:45 +0000, Tim Waugh wrote:
On Wed, 2011-11-30 at 08:53 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
I'm not sure exactly why I used the Gutenprint driver. As best I remember it, when I upgraded to Fedora-16, which was done with a full install on Nov. 9th, either Gutenprint was the default driver for the printer, or was recommended, or no driver was recommended.
Could you show the output of su -c 'lpinfo -l -v' please? It sounds like we have the wrong IEEE 1284 Device ID for this device, or else we have that ID assigned to the wrong model.
Your wish is my command - jon
$ su -c 'lpinfo -l -v' Password: Device: uri = http class = network info = Internet Printing Protocol (http) make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = serial:/dev/ttyS0?baud=115200 class = serial info = Serial Port #1 make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = https class = network info = Internet Printing Protocol (https) make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = ipp class = network info = Internet Printing Protocol (ipp) make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = cups-pdf:/ class = file info = CUPS-PDF make-and-model = Virtual PDF Printer device-id = MFG:Generic;MDL:CUPS-PDF Printer;DES:Generic CUPS-PDF Printer;CLS:PRINTER;CMD:POSTSCRIPT; location = Device: uri = socket class = network info = AppSocket/HP JetDirect make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = ipps class = network info = Internet Printing Protocol (ipps) make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = lpd class = network info = LPD/LPR Host or Printer make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = smb class = network info = Windows Printer via SAMBA make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = beh class = network info = Backend Error Handler make-and-model = Unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = parallel:/dev/lp0 class = direct info = LPT #1 make-and-model = unknown device-id = location = Device: uri = usb://Brother/HL-1440%20series class = direct info = Brother HL-1440 series make-and-model = Brother HL-1440 series device-id = MFG:Brother;CMD:PCL4,PJL;MDL:HL-1440 series;CLS:PRINTER; location =
On Thu, 2011-12-01 at 10:07 -0800, Jonathan Ryshpan wrote:
Device: uri = usb://Brother/HL-1440%20series class = direct info = Brother HL-1440 series make-and-model = Brother HL-1440 series device-id = MFG:Brother;CMD:PCL4,PJL;MDL:HL-1440 series;CLS:PRINTER; location =
Well, everything seems to be in order, so I'm not sure what went wrong. Here is the list of drivers for that ID, most preferred first:
$ /usr/share/system-config-printer/check-device-ids.py 'Brother HL-1440 series' 'MFG:Brother;CMD:PCL4,PJL;MDL:HL-1440 series;CLS:PRINTER;' Installing relevant drivers using session service Fetching driver list └── Brother HL-1440 series (user-specified): MFG:Brother;MDL:HL-1440 series;CMD:PCL4,PJL; ├── foomatic:Brother-HL-1440-hl1250.ppd [foomatic] ├── gutenprint.5.2://brother-hl-1440/simple [gutenprint-cups] ├── gutenprint.5.2://brother-hl-1440/expert [gutenprint-cups] ├── foomatic:Brother-HL-1440-hpijs-pcl5e.ppd [foomatic] ├── foomatic:Brother-HL-1440-lj4dith.ppd [foomatic] └── foomatic:Brother-HL-1440-ljet4.ppd [foomatic]
Of course, by all means report a bug about the gutenprint behaviour. I just wanted to try to find out why that driver was being used instead of hl1250.
Tim. */
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