From: Thomas Knierim <tknierim@web.de>
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] can't print to pages on a single side of paper
To: users@global.libreoffice.org
Date: Friday, 28 October, 2011, 17:04
Hi
Am 28.10.2011 um 15:36 schrieb webmaster for Kracked Press
Productions:
I do not know about why PDF is set as the default for
that printer. I never saw an HP printer use PDF as a
default language for the printer.
The Printer Language is set by LibreOffice. If you open the
print dialog, klick on the printer and then on properties
you get a new window. Select the tab device and here you
have the printer language PDF (don't know if the Words of
the tab etc. are correct since I use a german version).
Again: setting this to PostScript (Level of the Driver)
resolves the problem - but that are too much clicks for a
print job.
Did you download and install the HP drivers for
Linux? Here is the link to the site.
http://hplipopensource.com/hplip-web/index.html
Yes I have the newest Version installed. The most recent
version is 3.11.10...
I have two HP printers. Color Laserjet 2600n and
PSC1410. I needed these updated drivers to make the
printers work the best for Ubuntu Linux. When you run
the file in the Terminal [instructions are given on the
site], it should ask about which OS and printer you have,
before you download the needed file. Then when you run
the script, it will download everything that is needed and
install the needed packages for you.
This may help, if you did not install the
drivers. I found that the drivers included with Ubuntu
10.04 was not as good as the most up-to-date ones from that
site.
The system shows the OS for SUSE 11.3 and 11.4, and
you will have to page down the printer list a long way to
get to your printer, after you select OfficeJet Pro as the
type of printer. I do not see ArchLinux, but you
should be able to use the driver from the parent OS like
Debian, Ubuntu, SUSE, Fedora, etc., whatever it is. It
shows the same version for the package as you listed, but so
did Ubuntu, but for some reason when I installed the version
from this site, it seemed to work better. Actually, I
just realized that I am running an older version than is
online, so I will be upgrading it myself.
IF you still have the problems, make sure you use the
non-PDF language for your default printer language.
HP's language or Postscript language is preferred.
... PDF is set in LibreOffice (see above) :(
As for CUPS, did you install CUPS-PDF from your
package manager? That is my default way to print out
PDF files, even from LibreOffice [most of the time].
In OpenSuse 12.1 (standard) there is no package called
cups-pdf
As for the 2 pages per sheet, the orientation for the
sheet should be landscape. If it is otherwise, then
there is a problem.
On 10/28/2011 08:38 AM, Thomas Knierim wrote:
Hi everybody,
this is my first post in a mailing list - so
please be patient.
I have a strange problem - and I have to admint: I
don't know if it belongs to llibreoffice only. So here is
the Problem:
I'm using a HP Officjet Pro k8600dn and I can't
print to pages on a sheet of paper. If I start a print job
the paper gets loaded and the printer hangs. I could only
bring it back to live if I switch it off and on again. The
problem does only appear if the printer language is set to
PDF (the default) in LibreOffice. If I set it to PostScript
(level of the driver) the printer works as expected.
On the other hand: I have an old HP Laserjet 5L.
With it the two-pages-on-a-sheet-printing works (but the
orientation is wrong - but that's another problem).
Here is my software:
OperationSystem: Linux (OpenSuse RC1 or Archlinux
- both the same error)
LibreOffice: 3.4.2
CUPS: 1.5.0
hplip: 3.11.10
Greetings tknierim
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