hplip images wont print from libreoffice

[robin_listas]

On 2011-11-01 01:26, deano ferrari wrote:
> My point was that I would not expect a
> printer to fail because of lack of memory.

Mine does sometimes.

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)

[farcusnz]

I think the hplip cups driver for this printer might just be a bit flaky.
While I now have no problem printing images the contrast / brightness of the images is far too dark.
Making changes to these settings using hp-toolbox has absolutely no effect.
Tried installing latest hplip from hp directly but no change.
Contrast / brightness in the hpijs driver is perfect.
Have queried these issues over on the hp support website - will wait and see what they come back with and file a bug report depending on what they advise.

[deano_ferrari]

Thanks for the update. I think I did read somewhere about some colour or contrast issues concerning your printer and hplip.

[farcusnz]

an update here . . .

The hplip team at HP have advised that the problems I have been experiencing are caused by Ghostscript 9.00.x which is buggy.
They advised I should upgrade to the latest ghostscript or downgrade to 8.71.
The latest I could find in the opensuse printing repos was 9.00-6 which still exhibits the problems I have been experiencing so I downgraded to 8.71 which fixed my problems up right away.

The only problem I have now is that okular and libspectre were removed as they require ghostscript 9.xx
Is there any way I can get these back and hang on to ghostscript 8.71 or does anyone know where I can get an opensuse rpm of ghostscript 9.01.x or 9.02.x? - and if installing one of these are they likely to break anything else? Dependencies?

[deano_ferrari]

an update here . . .

The hplip team at HP have advised that the problems I have been experiencing are caused by Ghostscript 9.00.x which is buggy.
They advised I should upgrade to the latest ghostscript or downgrade to 8.71.
The latest I could find in the opensuse printing repos was 9.00-6 which still exhibits the problems I have been experiencing so I downgraded to 8.71 which fixed my problems up right away.

I wasn't surprised by this finding. I think it would be a good pass this on to the openSUSE package maintainers

SDB:How to Report a Printing Issue - openSUSE

I note the latest builds available from here (if you don't mind rolling your own):

Obtaining GPL Ghostscript 9.02

[farcusnz]

thanks - I have filed and opensuse bug report and included all the logs that were originally supplied to HP.

Had a look at compiling ghostscript and even found a couple of precompiled rpms but it seems that getting 9.02 to play nicely with Opensuse 11.4 is probably a bit out of my skill level.

I think the easiest thing might be to find a way to install okular and libspectre will keeping ghostscript 8.71 but I can't seem to find any older versions of these files.

I had hoped that when 12.1 is released in a couple of weeks it might solve my problems but it seems 12.1 is still using the 9.00-xx series of ghostscript.

[robin_listas]

On 2011-11-04 07:06, farcusnz wrote:
>
> thanks - I have filed and opensuse bug report and included all the logs
> that were originally supplied to HP.

Give them a link to the HP report.

> I think the easiest thing might be to find a way to install okular and
> libspectre will keeping ghostscript 8.71 but I can't seem to find any
> older versions of these files.

Forcing install. May work, may not.


> I had hoped that when 12.1 is released in a couple of weeks it might
> solve my problems but it seems 12.1 is still using the 9.00-xx series of
> ghostscript.

Too bad...

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)

[farcusnz]

here's the bug

https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728215

[robin_listas]

On 2011-11-04 13:16, farcusnz wrote:
>
> here's the bug
>
> https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=728215

And the resolution is very disappointing :-(

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Cheers / Saludos,

Carlos E. R.
(from 11.4 x86_64 "Celadon" at Telcontar)

[frank_from_ch]

The original statement might have been not too encouraging. But it seems the resolution has nevertheless been worked on. Check here:
https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=735824

Cheers
Frank