[ale] printing fun

[Chuck Payne]

Jim,

Did you try to use the foomatic, that we used with all HP printers and it
worked.



On Thu, Dec 14, 2017 at 7:39 PM, Putnam, James M. via Ale <ale at ale.org>
wrote:

>
>     PCL5?
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> James  M. Putnam
> Visiting Professor of Computer Science
>
> The air was soft, the stars so fine,
> the promise of every cobbled alley so great,
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> From: Ale [ale-bounces at ale.org] on behalf of Stephen R. Blevins via Ale [
> ale at ale.org]
> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2017 7:28 PM
> To: Jim Kinney via Ale
> Subject: Re: [ale] printing fun
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> I can't help you.  I always connect via USB and "install."
>
> Stephen R. Blevins
> stephen.r.blevins at gmail.com
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> On 12/14/2017 05:42 PM, Jim Kinney via Ale wrote:
> > I rarely print any more but when I need to... lately I pull out my hair.
> >
> > cups can print perfect test pages all day long. HP printing widget stuff
> > can print test pages all day long. Printer is a well supported HP
> > laserjet pro M501dn.
> >
> > I can't print from any application correctly. When I print an email
> > message all I get are the vertical stripes where the quoted section
> > begins. Print to pdf, view pdf, looks fine, print pdf, get nothing but
> > bars, no text of any kind.
> >
> > The applications I failed with so far are evolution email, LibreOffice
> > docs - the only two environments I ever actually print from. No cups
> > logs with anything.
> >
> > Firefox can print (ctl-P, select printer, print).
> >
> > Ideas, directions to look in , etc., would be appreciated.
> >
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> > James P. Kinney III
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