[SOLVED] Printing problem w. Photosmart 8450.

[Erik P. Olsen]

On 05/01/10 02:44, Mikkel wrote:
> On 01/04/2010 06:08 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
>> I have an HP Photosmart 8450 installed on fedora 12. It prints
>> beautifully when it comes to colour pages on plain paper format A4.
>> However, when printing photos it fails. I simply cannot force it to
>> print 4 by 6 inch borderless photos. The printer test page comes out in
>> the correct size but the printer does not accept that the photo tray is
>> activated and when I activate the A4 plain paper tray the 4 by 6 inch
>> test page comes out on A4 paper.
>>
>> I have set the following options:
>>
>> Media Size: Photo Borderless 4x6 in
>> Media source: Photo tray
>> Output Mode: Color
>> Media Type: Photo Paper
>> Print Quality: High-Resolution Photo
>> Installed Inks: Photo + Color
>>
>> The driver is: hpcups 3.8.9
>>
>> Does anyone know what is wrong?
>>
> Try using "Black + Color". Even though I have 3 color, 1 photo
> black, and one black cartilage, the "Photo + Color leads to a wrong
> paper size error when trying to use the photo tray...

Good Suggestion but it didn't help.

What helped was to update hpcups to 3.9.12. Same options except that "Installed 
Inks" was no longer an option. hpcups 3.8.9 is sick.

-- 
Erik.