HP Color LaserJet 3600: "Best" printing mode with proprietary plug-in gives "Chosen personality not available" on printer's front panel

Bug #200147 reported by Till Kamppeter
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Bug Description

I have the HP Color LaserJet 3600DN and have set it up with hp-setup. hp-setup finds the printer on my network and offers me to download a plug-in. I agree and after the plug-in got downloaded I choose the PPD file which tells "plug-in required". After that I open system-config-printer and select "Best" color printing quality for this printer. When printing a test page the printer makes some noise, does not print anything and gives the message "Chosen personality not available" on its front panel display.

With another PPD file without "plug-in required" the printer works but there is no "Best" mode to choose.

I get the highest quality mode working using the third-party driver "pxljr" (Install the "pjlxr" package if you do not find the driver in Ubuntu, or http://hp-pxl-jetready.sourceforge.net/ for the source code).

I encountered the problem on both Ubuntu Gutsy and Hardy, both 64-bit architecture.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

If you fix this bug in the next days it would be great if you could post a patch, as we are after feature freeze in Ubuntu and due to this I cannot replace the current HPLIP package by a new version. Thanks.

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Raghothama Cauligi (raghothama-cauligi) wrote :

It is fixed now. Please see the attached patch file.
Raghu

Changed in hplip:
status: New → Triaged
status: New → Confirmed
importance: Undecided → Medium
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Thank you very much for the patch. Fixed with the help of HP's test printers.

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

I have applied the patch, but it has no effect at all. I have also tried deleting and reinstalling the proprietary plug-in (by deleting /usr/share/hplip/data/plugins/*, /usr/share/cups/model/hpijs/HP/hp_color_laserjet_3600-hpijs.ppd, and /usr/share/hplip/prnt/plugins/lj*) and reinstalling the printer with hp-setup (which re-downloads the plug-in). But as the plugin file on the server is of Feb 26, you have probably not fixed anything there.

Perhaps this was only a part of the bug and another part is in the plug-in.

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Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package hplip - 2.8.2-0ubuntu3

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hplip (2.8.2-0ubuntu3) hardy; urgency=low

  * debian/patches/hp-setup_crash.dpatch: Fix crash of hp-setup (LP: #181242)
  * debian/patches/hp_clj_3600_best_color_mode.dpatch: Fix "Best" color mode of
    the HP LaserJet 35xx/36xx (LP: #200147).

 -- Till Kamppeter <email address hidden> Thu, 13 Mar 2008 12:08:52 +0100

Changed in hplip:
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

Reopening as the patch did not fix the bug. I have uploaded the package anyway as such a typo should not be left in. Probably it is a part of the fix.

Changed in hplip:
status: Fix Released → Triaged
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sumanc (suman-sscu) wrote :

I could reproduce this on Kubuntu Hardy with all updates installed. I did not apply the patch manually.

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old_toby (simon-hornweb) wrote :

It's not only the high quality printout mode that's missing, also there's no draft mode, which would be nice to save on toner.

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Please run hp-info and post the output.

Thanks!

Aaron

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :
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hp-info returns the following on my HP Color LaserJet 3600:

hp:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_3600?ip=192.168.2.103

Device Parameters (dynamic data):
  Parameter Value(s)
  ---------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------
  agent1-ack False
  agent1-desc Black toner cartridge
  agent1-dvc 0
  agent1-health 0
  agent1-health-desc Good/OK
  agent1-hp-ink False
  agent1-id 0
  agent1-kind 4
  agent1-known False
  agent1-level 16
  agent1-level-trigger 0
  agent1-sku 70 (Q2670A)
  agent1-type 1
  agent1-virgin False
  agent2-ack False
  agent2-desc Cyan toner cartridge
  agent2-dvc 0
  agent2-health 0
  agent2-health-desc Good/OK
  agent2-hp-ink False
  agent2-id 0
  agent2-kind 4
  agent2-known False
  agent2-level 51
  agent2-level-trigger 0
  agent2-sku 71 (Q2671A)
  agent2-type 4
  agent2-virgin False
  agent3-ack False
  agent3-desc Magenta toner cartridge
  agent3-dvc 0
  agent3-health 0 ...

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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

old_toby, you do not get all printing modes when simply using HPIJS. You can either run "hp-setup" and create a queue for the printer with this tool, so that you get the proprietary plug-in from HP or you use the third-party free software driver "pxljr" (not available on all distros, on Ubuntu it is available).

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Raghothama Cauligi (raghothama-cauligi) wrote : RE: [Bug 200147] Re: HP Color LaserJet 3600: "Best" printing mode with proprietary plug-in gives "Chosen personality not available" on printer's front panel
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Thanks.
The ppd has Model Name as "hp color LaserJet 3600" which is causing hpijs to instantiate
it as a PCL printer. I will update the ppd.
Raghu

-----Original Message-----
From: <email address hidden> [mailto:<email address hidden>] On Behalf Of Till Kamppeter
Sent: Friday, September 26, 2008 12:22 AM
To: Cauligi, Raghothama S
Subject: [Bug 200147] Re: HP Color LaserJet 3600: "Best" printing mode with proprietary plug-in gives "Chosen personality not available" on printer's front panel

hp-info returns the following on my HP Color LaserJet 3600:

hp:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_3600?ip=192.168.2.103

Device Parameters (dynamic data):
  Parameter Value(s)
  ---------------------------- ----------------------------------------------------------
  agent1-ack False
  agent1-desc Black toner cartridge
  agent1-dvc 0
  agent1-health 0
  agent1-health-desc Good/OK
  agent1-hp-ink False
  agent1-id 0
  agent1-kind 4
  agent1-known False
  agent1-level 16
  agent1-level-trigger 0
  agent1-sku 70 (Q2670A)
  agent1-type 1
  agent1-virgin False
  agent2-ack False
  agent2-desc Cyan toner cartridge
  agent2-dvc 0
  agent2-health 0
  agent2-health-desc Good/OK
  agent2-hp-ink False
  agent2-id 0
  agent2-kind 4
  agent2-known False
  agent2-level 51
  agent2-level-trigger 0
  agent2-sku 71 (Q2671A)
  agent2-type 4
  agent2-virgin False
  agent3-ack False
  agent3-desc Magenta toner cartridge
  agent3-dvc 0
  agent3-health 0
  agent3-health-desc Good/OK
  agent3-hp-ink False
  agent3-id 0
  agent3-kind 4
  agent3-known False
  agent3-level 51
  agent3-level-trigger 0
  agent3-sku 73 (Q2673A)
  agent3-type 5
  agent3-virgin False
  agent4-ack False
  agent4-desc Yellow toner cartridge
  agent4-dvc 0
  agent4-health 0
  agent4-health-desc Good/OK
  agent4-hp-ink False
  agent4-id 0
  agent4-kind 4
  agent4-known False
  agent4-level 53
  agent4-level-trigger 0
  agent4-sku 72 (Q2672A)
  agent4-type 6
  agent4-virgin False
  back-end hp
  cups-printer HP_Color_LaserJet_3600
  cups-uri hp:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_3600?ip=192.168.2.103
  dev-file
  device-state 1
  device-uri hp:/net/HP_Color_LaserJet_3600?ip=192.168.2.103
  deviceid ...

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Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount) wrote :

Pretty sure this is fixed in Ubuntu 8.10. Please advise if not.

A

Changed in hplip:
assignee: nobody → kalosaurusrex
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
assignee: nobody → kalosaurusrex
status: Triaged → Fix Released
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Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter) wrote :

This works in 8.10. Thanks.

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