OK,
I’m not a noob. I’ve been doing Linux admin and managing a Network Operations Center for over 6 years. I’ve designed and built network security architectures that supported over a thousand users using SuSE 10.0 and 10.3. (With no intrusions, ever.)
But, the one thing I have never been able to do well, is make a linux box print. Usually I get frustrated and fall back to printing my photos from my wife’s Windows box. (which would just send to the queue on the Linux server in our computer room.) Everything I can find says my photosmart 7350 is fully supported. But test pages either try to print two copies of the test page on one page (Gutenprint driver) or spans the CUPS test page over 5 sheets of letter paper (hplip driver). It will print the hplip test page fine with the hplip driver, but when I send a photo to the printer to print on 4x6 paper, it sits there for a while, then feeds the paper out to the bottom of the sheet, and starts to print.
I’m at a complete loss, and I’m also tired of giving up and printing from a windoze box. I always have the feeling I’m missing something stupid and simple.
On Wed January 7 2009 01:26 am, scottknauss wrote:
>
> OK,
> I’m not a noob. I’ve been doing Linux admin and managing a Network
> Operations Center for over 6 years. I’ve designed and built network
> security architectures that supported over a thousand users using SuSE
> 10.0 and 10.3. (With no intrusions, ever.)
>
> But, the one thing I have never been able to do well, is make a linux
> box print. Usually I get frustrated and fall back to printing my photos
> from my wife’s Windows box. (which would just send to the queue on the
> Linux server in our computer room.) Everything I can find says my
> photosmart 7350 is fully supported. But test pages either try to print
> two copies of the test page on one page (Gutenprint driver) or spans the
> CUPS test page over 5 sheets of letter paper (hplip driver). It will
> print the hplip test page fine with the hplip driver, but when I send a
> photo to the printer to print on 4x6 paper, it sits there for a while,
> then feeds the paper out to the bottom of the sheet, and starts to
> print.
>
> I’m at a complete loss, and I’m also tired of giving up and printing
> from a windoze box. I always have the feeling I’m missing something
> stupid and simple.
>
> Any ideas?
>
>
> Thanks,
>
>
Have you looked here: http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-PhotoSmart_7350
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
On Wed January 7 2009 04:16 am, scottknauss wrote:
>
> Actually, I still had the page open in another tab. It’s what led me to
> try the hpijs driver. But it doesn’t reference any of the problems I’m
> having.
>
>
Have you checked here: http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
P. V.
“We’re all in this together, I’m pulling for you.” Red Green
Yep.
I read through all of the applicable trouble shooting, setup and FAQ pages earlier today.
This is driving me nuts as I’m the guy that everyone else comes to for Linux questions at work. I’ve been putting this off for too long. I’m considering just buying a new printer since I’ve never been able to get this one to work well with Linux, and its getting a little old anyway, but I’m afraid I’ll just have the same problems. It’s even more frustrating as I the machine the printer is currently connected to is a freshly installed 11.1.
One other thing I found. If I set the Gutenprint to 150dpi in the driver options, it will print a good test page. (at 150 dpi) But when I go to print a picture, it does the same 'slide to the bottom of the page and start to print` trick. WTH? I’m trying to print them from Gimp. Should I be printing from elsewhere?
I’m not entirely happy with this solution, but my last question prompted a thought. I’ve just sent a picture to print on 4x6 photo paper from the hp-toolbox using the hplip driver, and it printed beautifully. (As long as I set all of the print options in hp-toolbox correctly.) I still feel like I should be able to do that from any application though, not just the hp-toolbox.
Basically you are saying you export it in a compatible format from whatever program to a temporary location, start the hp tool box, select the file for printing and then it works, right?
Well, thanks, this way I could finally print a photo in photo quality on photo paper.
But it still makes me unhappy I cannot go straight from gimp or digikam.
Not to mention that while I am typing the photo has finished…
and shown only a small fraction of the real picture with a huge ugly border on all 4 sides…>:(