HPLIP

huge Font while printing pure ascii

Asked by grenouille

since update to hpijs 3.9.2 I got huge fonts in Lines longer than paper wide while I print pure ascii caracters.
Printing Testpage and other ps defined pages is ok, not hte raw printing.

Thanks for respons output of hp-check -t is at end of Post
Grenouille

hp-check -t
---------------------------------------

HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.1

Copyright (c) 2001-8 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

---------------
| SYSTEM INFO |
---------------

Basic system information:
Linux hush 2.6.29-1-686 #1 SMP Fri Apr 17 14:35:16 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Distribution:
debian unstable

HPOJ running?
No, HPOJ is not running (OK).

Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.5.4 installed

Checking PyQt 4.x version...

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
Version: 1.3.10
error_log is set to level: debug

Checking for dbus/python-dbus...
dbus daemon is running.
python-dbus version: 0.83.0

------------------------------------
| COMPILE AND RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES |
------------------------------------

Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libjpeg - JPEG library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files...

Checking for dependency: libpthread - POSIX threads library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libtool - Library building support services...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libusb - USB library...

Checking for dependency: make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan)...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: ppdev - Parallel port support kernel module....
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PyQt 4- Qt interface for Python (for Qt version 4.x)...

Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4...

Checking for dependency: Python ctypes - A foreign function library for Python...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python devel - Python development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python XML libraries...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files...

Checking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program...
OK, found.

Checking f
HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.2)
System Tray Status Service ver. 2.0

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

or dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE...
OK, found.

----------------------
| HPLIP INSTALLATION |
----------------------

Currently installed HPLIP version...
HPLIP 3.9.2 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'.

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.9.2

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hpijs/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd/hpijs
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-doc/HTML
icon=no
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv

# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
pp-build=yes
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
foomatic-drv-install=yes
foomatic-ppd-install=no
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
internal-tag=3.9.2.49
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
[installation]
version = 3.9.2.49
date_time = 05/09/09 21:48:19

-------------------------------
| DISCOVERED PARALLEL DEVICES |
-------------------------------

No devices found.

--------------------------
| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
--------------------------

  Device URI Model
  -------------------------------------------- ----------------------------
  hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_3030?serial=00CNBF007623 HP LaserJet 3030

---------------------------------
| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
---------------------------------

All_in_usb
----------
Type: Printer
Installed in HPLIP?: Yes, using the hp: CUPS backend.
Device URI: hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_3030?serial=00CNBF007623
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/All_in_usb.ppd
PPD Description: HP LaserJet 3030 hpijs, hpijs 3.9.2.49 - HPLIP 3.9.2
Printer status: printer All_in_usb is idle. enabled since Sat 09 May 2009 09:37:45 PM CEST

Communication status: Good

----------------------
| SANE CONFIGURATION |
----------------------

'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'...
'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.d/hplip'...
OK, found. SANE backend 'hpaio' is properly set up.

Checking output of 'scanimage -L'...
device `hpaio:/usb/hp_LaserJet_3030?serial=00CNBF007623' is a Hewlett-Packard hp_LaserJet_3030 all-in-one

---------------------
| PYTHON EXTENSIONS |
---------------------

Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'hpmudext' I/O extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'scanext' SANE scanning extension...
OK, found.

-----------------
| USB I/O SETUP |
-----------------

Checking for permissions of USB attached printers...

HP Device 0x1817 at 005:011:
    Device URI: hp:/usb/hp_LaserJet_3030?serial=00CNBF007623
    Device node: /dev/bus/usb/005/011
    Mode: 0664
getfacl: Removing leading '/' from absolute path names

# file: dev/bus/usb/005/011

# owner: root

# group: lp

user::rw-

user:wulf:rw-

group::rw-

mask::rw-

other::r--

-----------
| SUMMARY |
-----------

Please refer to the installation instructions at:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html

Done.

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#1

Please email me the file you are trying to print (or something similar that is having the same problem.).

ke7ezt(at)gmail(dot)com

Thanks!

Aaron

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grenouille (j-b-grenouille) said : 		#2

It's while I print pure ascii. So I can reproduce it with every ascci file.

i.e
prompt# echo foobar | lp

or
prompt# man mplayer | lp

Best wishes Wulf++

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Best Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

I am able to reproduce this, however this is a problem that is upstream from us. You may want to refer this problem to the txt2ps filter team.

We simply process the data send from the filters in this case.

Thanks for your support of HPLIP--we appreciate it.

Aaron

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grenouille (j-b-grenouille) said : 		#4

Hi Aaron,

thenks for response.

I did'nt know that You pass this trough txt2ps, also there is no matching package in current debian sid, not by name nor holding a file named txt2ps.

Anyhow I alter my consuetude while printing ascii. From now on I print ascii via a2ps this works for me and bring some nice extra convenience. http://www.gnu.org/software/a2ps/

Best wishes
Wulf++