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From: Merciadri Luca on 26 May 2010 12:40
Brad Rogers wrote:
> On Wed, 26 May 2010 15:33:38 +0200
> Merciadri Luca <Luca.Merciadri(a)student.ulg.ac.be> wrote:
>
> Hello Merciadri,
>
>
>> That is a really strange problem. Have you tried your printer on
>> another computer? (Basic question, I know, but we sometimes forget.)
>>
>
> Unfortunately, that's not possible, as I don't have access to another
> computer to try it on.
>
>
>> connected to the computer? I have no experience with laser printers.
>>
>
> Via USB, as hplip doesn't recognise parallel printers [at least from
> Debian repos](0). Barry's is the laser printer, mine's an inkjet.
>
> [0] It is possible to use parallel printers with hplip but, by default,
> the ability is off at compile time. I've never pursued the issue the
> the Debian maintainer but guess he doesn't enable the feature.
>
> I also want to go direct to HP to use hplip since their way uses a
> very unDebian like install method. On top of that, I already install
> four packages manually, and don't wish to make that five.
>
> Finally, for me, this is a minor 'nit' as I don't do a great deal of
> printing. I can see though, it would be costly for users that make a
> lot of use of their printer(s).
>
>
Well, that keeps being strange to my eyes. I have never seen such
problems. I have seen page scaling, rotating, etc., but never this
problem. I hope somebody's going to find an answer to your problem.
Happy to see that you do not print a lot; if this was happening to me, I
would have teared out!

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