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On Sat, 3 Sep 2011, Brad Rogers wrote:
On Sat, 3 Sep 2011 18:57:53 +0100 (BST) Gordon Henderson <gordon+dcglug@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: Hello Gordon,If this is the default behaviour of CUPS, then it's a huge step backwards IMO.I fully understand your ire; I recently had to deal with a Windows machine where the screen had rotated through 90Â for no apparent reason. It all seemed so bloody stupid. It's of no consolation to you I know, but I've rarely had trouble using CUPS. Even on the occasions when I have, it's been traceable to user (i.e. me) error.
It's not entirely possible that we've just not done "something" that we're supposed to do... But what? I was plesantly surprised after I installed Debian on it that it recognised the printers without much effort at all and printed a test page on them. It seemed to go downhill after that.
A good deal depends on the quality of the driver being used, I'm sure. It's one of the reasons I tend to opt for HP machines; They provide drivers for Linux.
It's an HP printer (Both are - but we've more or less given up on the inkjet - the laserjet is an HP4600N - Ethernet port, 96MB RAM, duplexor, photo colour, etc...)
It's also using the HP driver - HPLIP - although it's being used by CUPS.The inkjet is a HP Photosmart 2570 - a very nice little printer - USB with it's own power supply. It stops printing about 5/6 of the way through a page... No obvious errors, then it becomes "disabled" in the printer configuration tool that Gnome has. This printer has worked OK for a few years under Win XP.
I don't particularly like leaving the laserjet printer turned on all the time, as even when it's in power save mode, there in a fan running and it sucks 30 watts, so we turn it off when it's not in-use.
Gordon
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