[Pkg-cups-devel] [kudos] Printing working perfectly for the first time ever
Dave Witbrodt
dawitbro at sbcglobal.net
Wed Dec 2 03:55:45 UTC 2009
I've been using Debian since 2005, and I've owned an HP DeskJet 6122
inkjet printer since around that time.
Yesterday, I had to print some receipts in a hurry so I could mail them
before I went to work. Just then, I got burned with the libpoppler5 bug
which was preventing CUPS from doing anything useful at all. I had
recently cleaned up my APT cache, so I had no working DEB on hand to
which I could downgrade, and I had no luck finding an older version on
the internet. I _did_ get luck in finding Debian sources for the
previous version of libpoppler5... so after installing 150MB of
build-depends I was able to produce my own DEBs and get CUPS going again.
I've always had problems with getting CUPS to understand where the
margins are on my paper. Particularly when printing web pages using
Iceweasel, which ought to give nice headers and footers with date, page
number, URI, etc. These headers/footers typically get cut off... no
doubt a curable problem if I had expended enough effort, but whatever
efforts I had put into it (on several occasions) in the past merely
resulted in frustration and resignation.
It was with great surprise (and joy!) that I discovered yesterday -- in
a mad rush to get the paperwork printed in time so I wouldn't be late
for work -- that the web pages I was printing receipts from were turning
out PERFECTLY! Headers and footers all present, nothing half (or
totally) cut off, no regions of the page with inexplicably fading ink.
So, I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I am using CUPS, naturally, but I
configured the printer using HPLIP. I have no way of knowing which
suite of packages changed to allow this perfection, but clearly both
sets are working perfectly (for me) to give me these excellent results.
So I decided I should thank both sets of developers at once!
I use Debian Sid, with these software versions:
$ apt-cache policy cups hplip
cups:
Installed: 1.4.2-2
Candidate: 1.4.2-2
Version table:
*** 1.4.2-2 0
990 http://debian.osuosl.org unstable/main Packages
100 /var/lib/dpkg/status
hplip:
Installed: 3.9.10-1
Candidate: 3.9.10-1
Thank you very much!
Dave W.
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