Re: HP Laserjet 5 printing problem

From: Darko Gavrilovic (dgavrilovicAThushmailDOTcom)
Date: 04/06/05 

Date: Wed, 06 Apr 2005 05:43:03 -0500

Darrell Stec <darrell_stec@webpagesorcery.com> wrote in
news:3bha3fF6h9o1oU1@individual.net:

> After serious contemplation, on or about Wednesday 06 April 2005 12:49
> am tschirch@gruenau.informatik.hu-berlin.de wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I'm having problems with a HP LaserJet 5. I'm running Suse9.1.
>> Printing from kmail usually works fine, but when I try to print from
>> Mozilla or OOffice, problems occur. Sometimes it prints only a single
>> line of special characters in the middle of the page, sometimes I get
>> undefinable output at the top. Sometimes it prints hours or days
>> later although the job has already disappeared from the queue. I'm
>> using cups and have tried the hpijs and lj5mono drivers, both with
>> the same problems. Does anybody have an idea?
>>
>> Tobias
> I have the LaserJet 5L. When I first installed SuSE 9.1 I had
> problems with it and my HP DeskJet 500C printer. In fact I couldn't
> get them to print at all. Being on a dual boot computer and switching
> back and forth several times a day, one day when I booted into Linux
> the printers started printing all the things that never got printed
> before. I had to change the A4 paper size several times to letter
> before the printers finally accepted that option. I believe that
> prior to that I changed the driver to what I am using now. It is the
> HP LaserJet 5L Foomatic/ljet4 driver. It seems to work fine for me.
>

Hi, when you say "change the A4 paper size several times", you refer to
the printer properties from within Open Office?

I too have had an unusually high amount of problems with printer
drivers/settings. They don't want to stay when I set them up. From both
Open Office and Acrobat. I haven't tried printing from Acrobat 7 yet. I
am using SuSE 9.2.

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