null Posted June 19, 2004 Report Share Posted June 19, 2004 My experience with linux over the past year or so has just been on a machine that had no speakers, and no printer. So I am not too knowledgeble about sound under linux and printing under linux. Now that I have my new machine (FC2) hooked up to a nice 3-pc speaker system (sounds good !) and to my H-P Deskjet 5550 printer, I want to start printing stuff. I have printed a couple of things from the web (worked fine). However, I was dissapointed in the options presented to me (ie the printer driver) before printing. Under winblows, when I select Print... it would allow me to choose whatever quality I wanted. Generally, for crap off the web, I chose "Fast Draft" - its fast printing, and uses less ink. Also, I could select various features, such as 2-sided printing. There is none of that offerred when I print on my linux box. So I went to linuxprinting.org and saw that there was a H-P driver for linux, so I downloaded it. Guess its sitting in my home folder now. What do I do with it, or where do I move it to? Does some kind of install need to be done, or does it just have to be moved somewhere? It is a .ppd file. thanks [moved from Everything Linux by spinynorman] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 20, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 20, 2004 (edited) I figured out a little of it. I went into System Settings, then Printing and then it had an option to import PPD, so I did that. Now when I print, at least it has a couple of Properties to select. However, compared to my winblows driver, it ... well sucks. I also downloaded the tar.gz hpijs driver and installed it, as per the instructions at linuxprinting.org. Where is 2-sided printing, where are the quality choices ? Maybe it doesn't offer quality choices, because it auto senses the paper? but that's stupid. I can be using regular paper, and maybe I want to print cheaply "Fast Draft quality" or a little better "Everyday quality". There must be another step to do. Linuxprinting.org has a lot of info, however it is kind of confusing (or I'm dumb). You click on various links and end up totally lost. I think I also went thru the Set Up CUPS. Is there something else to do? Edited June 23, 2004 by null Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iphitus Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 I have this printer, i configure it through the web interface, http://localhost:631/admin though i seem to remember more config options too, i know i saw them somewhere in linux. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
null Posted June 28, 2004 Author Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 I think I did that localhost setup also - it was part of the instructions on setting up CUPS. I don't print alot of stuff, so this isn't super important. But it would be nice to have a few options when printing. When I print manuals or tutorials and the like, I usually select Fast Draft Quality and also 2-sided printing - saves ink and saves paper. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
devries Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 I have 3 places were I can change the printer options: 1- In Konquerer (KDE), type in the adressbar print:/ 2- MCC 3- Cups. I use mostly KDE to change the printersettings. For instance, if I wanted to change the print-quality, I would go to the driversettings tab, and change the PrintOut Mode. Same for doublesided printing(also on the general tab). Anyway there are plenty of options to choose from (I have a HP printer too). I doubt the windowsdriver provides more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Michel Posted June 28, 2004 Report Share Posted June 28, 2004 I also have an hp-printer and I have quite some options. I haven't compared with windows .. where I mostly just printed normally. I even have an option for printing colro in draft .. yeah :).. I'm just exploring this stuff. I suppose you can set defaults, but you can also configure this when you print something. kprinter has these options, ... I suppose gnome, ... too. I really doubt if windows has more options. I think I have a lot more options with kprinter ... see if I can get some screenshots. This is not all functionality, but quite some (it's in Dutch): (not: man, it's easy to take screenshots and post them on a server. I just made the screenshots with the keyboard-shortcut, then I paste them in konqueror(I use fish(ssh) to connect to the server using konqueror and just paste and it's put on the server as png. no program needed realy ease :-).) Hope you get it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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