Bug 744338 - "Normal Grayscale" printout mode causes hpcups backend to fail with HP DeskJet 895Cxi and
Summary: "Normal Grayscale" printout mode causes hpcups backend to fail with HP DeskJe...
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Status: CLOSED UPSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: hplip
Version: 16
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Tim Waugh
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
URL:
Whiteboard:
: 989925 (view as bug list)
Depends On:
Blocks:
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2011-10-07 22:10 UTC by James
Modified: 2013-08-01 15:07 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Doc Type: Bug Fix
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Last Closed: 2011-11-16 15:40:27 UTC
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Attachments (Terms of Use)
CUPS error log with failed job (14.12 KB, text/plain)
2011-10-07 22:10 UTC, James
no flags Details
The PPD for the printer concerned, as selected by s-c-p (15.00 KB, text/plain)
2011-10-07 22:12 UTC, James
no flags Details


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Description James 2011-10-07 22:10:18 UTC
Created attachment 526970 [details]
CUPS error log with failed job

Description of problem:
The recommended driver for the HP DeskJet 895Cxi, hpcups, fails when "Normal Grayscale" output mode is selected.

In this case, the printer is attached to another machine running CUPS. To reproduce this, I went into system-config-printer, chose to add a printer (under a new name), and gave it the relevant IPP URL. I then selected the printer make and model, and the recommended driver: hpcups 3.11.7.

Next, I submitted a test job, and this worked fine. I then went to print a document from Evince, selecting "Normal Grayscale". In this case, the job failed with remark "/usr/lib/cups/filter/hpcups failed".

The relevant excerpt from the local CUPS log is attached.

In the meantime, I have manually switched to the hpijs driver.


Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
hpijs-3.11.7-2.fc15.x86_64

How reproducible:
Always.

Comment 1 James 2011-10-07 22:12:46 UTC
Created attachment 526971 [details]
The PPD for the printer concerned, as selected by s-c-p

Comment 2 Jiri Popelka 2011-10-18 13:55:47 UTC
Please try the following steps (all as root):

1) switch back to the hpcups driver
2) edit /etc/cups/ppd/HP-Deskjet-895c.ppd,
   line 188 (begins with '*OutputMode NormalGray'),
   replace 'HWResolution[600 600]' with 'HWResolution[300 300]'
3) mv /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat /var/cache/cups/ppds.dat~
4) service cups restart

And try to reproduce the problem.

Comment 3 James 2011-10-18 14:21:04 UTC
I did that. Now every time I try to print a test page, it produces a blank page.

Comment 4 Tim Waugh 2011-11-16 15:40:27 UTC
Reported upstream.

Comment 5 James 2011-12-21 17:40:51 UTC
[Added for tracking purposes: still in F16.]

Comment 6 Tim Waugh 2013-08-01 15:07:27 UTC
*** Bug 989925 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***


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