Last week I was very unpleased to discover, that print support for my network printer (HP LaserJet 4350dtnsl) in most (all tested) gtk applications (also used app-office/openoffice-bin-3.3.0 prints normally). The behaviour of application (evince, gimp, but not icecat^ it prints normally) looks like described in https://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=283295 Print test page un CUPS web-ui prints. But not standard cups test page. It prints just two plain text strings: #CUPS-BANNER Show printer-name printer-info printer-location printer-make-and-m(here the page, but not string finishes). My /etc/cups/printers.conf # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.4.6 # Written by cupsd on 2011-08-17 12:04 # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE WHEN CUPSD IS RUNNING <DefaultPrinter default_printer> Info HP LaserJet 4350dtnsl Location private DeviceURI socket://192.168.9.9:9100 State Idle StateTime 1313568242 Reason media-low-report Type 4 Accepting Yes Shared Yes JobSheets none none QuotaPeriod 0 PageLimit 0 KLimit 0 OpPolicy default ErrorPolicy stop-printer Attribute marker-colors none,none Attribute marker-levels 99,80 Attribute marker-names Black Cartridge HP Q5942X,Maintenance Kit HP 110V-Q5421A, 220V-Q5422A Attribute marker-types tonerCartridge,fuser Attribute marker-change-time 1313568242 </Printer> Reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Setup HP LaserJet 4350dtnsl as network (IPP) printer in raw mode; 2. Try to print something from for example evince. Actual Results: Marked (by two symbols on left bottom) paper sheet. Expected Results: Normally printed document. Now (for first time) I'm thinking about testing hplip and/or downgrade cups. emerge --info Portage 2.1.10.3 (default/linux/x86/10.0, gcc-4.4.5, glibc-2.12.2-r0, 2.6.39-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: Linux-2.6.39-gentoo-r3-i686-Intel-R-_Pentium-R-_4_CPU_3.00GHz-with-gentoo-2.0.3 Timestamp of tree: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:45:01 +0000 app-shells/bash: 4.1_p9 dev-java/java-config: 2.1.11-r3 dev-lang/python: 2.7.1-r1, 3.1.3-r1 dev-util/cmake: 2.8.4-r1 dev-util/pkgconfig: 0.26 sys-apps/baselayout: 2.0.3 sys-apps/openrc: 0.8.3-r1 sys-apps/sandbox: 2.4 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.68 sys-devel/automake: 1.10.3, 1.11.1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.20.1-r1 sys-devel/gcc: 4.4.5 sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.4.1-r1 sys-devel/libtool: 2.4-r1 sys-devel/make: 3.82 sys-kernel/linux-headers: 2.6.36.1 (virtual/os-headers) sys-libs/glibc: 2.12.2 Repositories: gentoo location: /usr/portage sync: rsync://mirror.yandex.ru/gentoo-portage/ priority: -1000 rion 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Switching from RAW to HPLIP-driver solved the print issue (CUPS test page is OK).
(In reply to comment #1) > Switching from RAW to HPLIP-driver solved the print issue (CUPS test page is > OK). RAW printing is normally used when you want to share your printer with (windows) clients using their own printer drivers and CUPS just forwarding the raw input to the printer. If you don't want to install/use HPLIP most HP printers offer PCL and/or PostScript support which you can choose in CUPS via the manufacturer "Generic" option and then choosing "Generic PCL Laser Printer" or "Generic PostScript Printer". However you'll probably loose many features compared to using the proper HPLIP driver.
