| Summary: | gimp-print doesn't work with Canon BJC-3000; poor foomatic support | ||
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| Product: | Gentoo Linux | Reporter: | crusaderky |
| Component: | [OLD] Printing | Assignee: | Printing Team <printing> |
| Status: | RESOLVED DUPLICATE | ||
| Severity: | major | ||
| Priority: | High | ||
| Version: | 1.4 | ||
| Hardware: | All | ||
| OS: | Linux | ||
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| Package list: | Runtime testing required: | --- | |
I've updated gimp-print to the latest version, with no results. However, I managed to make the printer work. It works with the "Foomatic + bjc6000a1" driver, format A4, 720dpi. 360 dpi will make an unacceptably poor quality, while any other formats/drivers will produce deformed and low quality output. Other drivers don't work, either. This is a *temporary* solution, since it's unacceptably slow (from M$ Windows it prints 3 times faster with the same quality). Also, I can't tweak any settings (gamma/ saturation/ paper/ ink type etc.) I've already tried with the "generic postscript" driver. I can't even print the test page with it (the printer loads ink and then stops). |
I used to have RedHat and Mandrake before with the same hardware, and I never experienced this problem. This is my hardware: motherboard: Asus A7S333 printer: Canon BJC-3000, connected through USB I'm using CUPS, the "CUPS+Gimp-Print 4.3.18" driver for my printer and KDE printer manager. My gentoo system is up to date, without USE="~x86". The printer test page (from KDE printer manager) comes out just fine; however, when I try to print from any application (I've tried with the following: kwrite, kedit, gedit, acroread, gimp), the computer prints out only the page footer, placing it at about 1/5 of the page, and some horizontal lines). If there is more than one page, only one page is printed. Sometimes, instead, it doesn't print anything; it prepares to print (by loading ink etc.) but the printing job remains in queue, completely stuck (with "printing in progress" state). The printer green LED doesn't flash. After a minute or so, the job silently disappears from the queue, as it went well. With acroread, I can use both "lp" or "kprinter" as command. With The Gimp, I'm using the command line "lp -s -dCanon-BJC3000 -oraw" and printer model "Postscript Level 2". "Print to PDF" works well. I can't print anything from a Windows 2000 computer connected with Samba, even if I'm using exactly the same smb.conf file I was using with RedHat (where all worked fine). Directories sharing works; the printer is visualized correctly on the win2k pc; I get no error messages, as it all went well. This is an extract of my smb.conf file: [printers] comment = All Printers path = /var/spool/samba browseable = no guest ok = yes writable = no printable = yes create mode = 0700 print command = lpr -P %p -o raw %s lpq command = lpq -P %p lprm command = cancel %p-%j [print$] path = /var/lib/samba/printers browseable = yes read only = yes write list = @adm root