Evince printing fails but hp-print works, Gutsy (HP LaserJet 1320n)

[Richard Oxland]

Binary package hint: cupsys

Release: Ubuntu Gutsy 7.10

I have an HP LaserJet 1320n installed over an ethernet connection. The printer is not connected to a print server.

The printer was installed using hp-toolbox using a ppd file generated according to the instructions here

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=235104

Printing a PDF file (195KB) works with the hp-print command (see cupsys error log at http://pastebin.com/f66aaff64 ) with or without firewall disabled.

Printing with evince fails. The printer spooling LED flashes but very little data is sent from the PC and I have to remove the document from the Gnome print queue or it will stay there forever (see error log at http://pastebin.com/f6877b344 ). Firewall was disabled and the print size has become 6893KB, *for the same file*

Output of $ hp-probe -bnet

hp:/net/hp_LaserJet_1320_series?ip=130.209.xx.xx hp_LaserJet_1320_series 134-70-printer

Output of $ hp-probe -bcups

--------------------
| DEVICE DISCOVERY |
--------------------

  Device URI Model
  ------------------------------------------------- -----------------------
  hp:/net/hp_LaserJet_1320_series?ip=130.209.xx.xx hp_LaserJet_1320_series

Found 1 printer(s) on the 'cups' bus.

[Richard Oxland (roxland-deactivatedaccount)]

Larger jobs regularly fail (2.5MB and maybe smaller) even using hp-print with similar symptoms. The data for a few of the first pages are sent and then nothing more. The printer spool light flashes and nothing further happens.

[Aaron Albright (albrigha-deactivatedaccount)]

Please try again with 8.10 and post if still an issue.

Thanks for the report.

Aaron

[Richard Oxland (roxland-deactivatedaccount)]

This seems to work fine but with the printer installed via CUPS using the URI

socket://x.x.x.x:9100

and a patched HPLIP PPD from http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=235104

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Creating the patched PPD is not possible any more as the script mentioned in the posting is not available any more. Can you post it here, and also your PPD?

[David Suffield (david-suffield)]

I have a LJ1320 I use regularly, but I use the LJ1320 hpijs ppd instead of the postscript ppd. Ths postscript ppd does fail.

-dave

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

David, then it is as I recommend on OpenPrinting. Due to the low memory this printer works best as a PCL printer.

But it also seems that in PostScript one can also do better with a more optimized PPD (especially for the users who have added memory to the printer). Can you have a look at the two attachments from roxland? Perhaps all PostScript PPDs of HPLIP can get optimized to make the printers perform better in PostScript mode.