HP Laserjet 1200: broken fonts in Jaunty Beta / pxlmono driver

[Don Cristóbal]

Binary package hint: cups

Jaunty Beta recognised my HP Laserjet 1200 immediately, "plug'n play" seemed to work. It even did some printing, but this was _very_ slow (not more than a page per minute for normal OpenOffice text-only documents), and fonts were broken (see attached scan). That printer's name is "HP-Laserjet-1200", Make and Model: "HP LaserJet 1200 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)".

I tried two remedies, out of which only number 1 worked:

1) I simply added a new printer through System - Administration - Printing - New, then clicking OK twice or three times. This one's called "HP-Laserjet-1200_2". It works. Make and Model: "HP LaserJet 1200 hpijs, hpijs 3.9.2". This is somehow weird because the first time I plugged in the printer, the pxlmono driver was automatically chosen.

2) I added a new printer and pointed it to the pxlmono ppd I downloaded from http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1200 as the recommended option. This one produces the broken characters, too. Make and Model: "HP LaserJet 1200 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)"

My conclusion: pxlmono seems to be broken for Laserjet 1200. Therefore, it should be fixed, or it should not be the standard option.

Additional test: I removed all printers and plugged it in again... some seconds later it was ready for printing with hpijs 3.9.2, quick and clean. Maybe this issue has already been fixed since the original Jaunty Beta?

ProblemType: Bug
Architecture: i386
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 9.04
Lpstat:
 device for HP-LaserJet-1200: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1200?serial=00CNCF755836
 device for HP-LaserJet-1200_2: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1200?serial=00CNCF755836
 device for HP-LaserJet-1200_3: hp:/usb/HP_LaserJet_1200?serial=00CNCF755836
MachineType: IBM 2373WBZ
Package: cups 1.3.9-17
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
 HP-LaserJet-1200: HP LaserJet 1200 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)
 HP-LaserJet-1200_2: HP LaserJet 1200 hpijs, hpijs 3.9.2
 HP-LaserJet-1200_3: HP LaserJet 1200 Foomatic/pxlmono (recommended)
ProcCmdLine: root=UUID=d8ef4b66-2553-41ee-b734-5eb4d2214127 ro quiet splash
ProcEnviron:
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.28-11.41-generic
SourcePackage: cups

[Eugene Savelov (savelov)]

for me also foomatic/pxlmono driver in jaunty produces incorrect fonts in Laserjet 1200

[Eugene Savelov (savelov)]

I would think that it affect ghostscript package, as pxlmono driver is a internal ghostscript one
In interpid (8.10) pxlmono worked correctly with laserjet 1200, without printing those black boxes, so this is a regression

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Christoph, Eugene, can you please follow the instructions in bug 361772:

https://bugs.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/ghostscript/+bug/361772/comments/16