printing too slow HP D 1560,gray scale draft setting doesn't work

[las]

I threw away my cannon printer and brought HP D 1560 because of HPLIP /hplip tool box & not buying Turbo print driver.cannon worked very well with tubo print.Ended up disappointed because of problems like slow printing & not being able to reduce quality to save ink, (even without Turbo print cannon did better with"economy" mode)Hope it will get better sooner.thanks

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HP Linux Imaging and Printing System (ver. 3.9.8)
Dependency/Version Check Utility ver. 14.3

Copyright (c) 2001-9 Hewlett-Packard Development Company, LP
This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
This is free software, and you are welcome to distribute it
under certain conditions. See COPYING file for more details.

Note: hp-check can be run in three modes:
1. Compile-time check mode (-c or --compile): Use this mode before compiling the
HPLIP supplied tarball (.tar.gz or .run) to determine if the proper dependencies
are installed to successfully compile HPLIP.
2. Run-time check mode (-r or --run): Use this mode to determine if a distro
supplied package (.deb, .rpm, etc) or an already built HPLIP supplied tarball
has the proper dependencies installed to successfully run.
3. Both compile- and run-time check mode (-b or --both) (Default): This mode
will check both of the above cases (both compile- and run-time dependencies).

Saving output in log file: hp-check.log

Initializing. Please wait...

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| SYSTEM INFO |
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Basic system information:
Linux las-desktop 2.6.31-14-generic #48-Ubuntu SMP Fri Oct 16 14:04:26 UTC 2009 i686 GNU/Linux

Distribution:
ubuntu 9.10

Checking Python version...
OK, version 2.6.4 installed

Checking PyQt 4.x version...
OK, version 4.6 installed.

Checking for CUPS...
Status: scheduler is running
Version: 1.4.1
error_log is set to level: warn

Checking for dbus/python-dbus...
dbus daemon is running.
python-dbus version: 0.83.0

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| COMPILE AND RUNTIME DEPENDENCIES |
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note: To check for compile-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -c parameter (ie, hp-check -c).
note: To check for run-time only dependencies, re-run hp-check with the -r parameter (ie, hp-check -r).

Checking for dependency: CUPS - Common Unix Printing System...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS DDK - CUPS driver development kit...
warning: NOT FOUND! This is an OPTIONAL/RUNTIME ONLY dependency. Some HPLIP functionality may not function properly.
To install this dependency, execute this command:
sudo aptitude install --assume-yes cupsddk cupsddk-drivers

Checking for dependency: CUPS devel- Common Unix Printing System development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: CUPS image - CUPS image development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: DBus - Message bus system...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: gcc - GNU Project C and C++ Compiler...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: GhostScript - PostScript and PDF language interpreter and previewer...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libcrypto - OpenSSL cryptographic library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libjpeg - JPEG library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libnetsnmp-devel - SNMP networking library development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libpthread - POSIX threads library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libtool - Library building support services...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: libusb - USB library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: make - GNU make utility to maintain groups of programs...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PIL - Python Imaging Library (required for commandline scanning with hp-scan)...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PolicyKit - Administrative policy framework...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: PyQt 4 DBus - DBus Support for PyQt4...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python DBus - Python bindings for DBus...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python devel - Python development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python libnotify - Python bindings for the libnotify Desktop notifications...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python XML libraries...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.3 or greater - Required for fax functionality...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Python 2.2 or greater - Python programming language...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: Reportlab - PDF library for Python...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: SANE - Scanning library development files...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: scanimage - Shell scanning program...
OK, found.

Checking for dependency: xsane - Graphical scanner frontend for SANE...
OK, found.

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| HPLIP INSTALLATION |
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Currently installed HPLIP version...
HPLIP 3.9.8 currently installed in '/usr/share/hplip'.

Current contents of '/etc/hp/hplip.conf' file:
# hplip.conf. Generated from hplip.conf.in by configure.

[hplip]
version=3.9.8

[dirs]
home=/usr/share/hplip
run=/var/run
ppd=/usr/share/ppd/hplip/HP
ppdbase=/usr/share/ppd/hplip
doc=/usr/share/doc/hplip-doc/HTML
icon=no
cupsbackend=/usr/lib/cups/backend
cupsfilter=/usr/lib/cups/filter
drv=/usr/share/cups/drv

# Following values are determined at configure time and cannot be changed.
[configure]
network-build=yes
pp-build=yes
gui-build=yes
scanner-build=yes
fax-build=yes
dbus-build=yes
cups11-build=no
doc-build=yes
shadow-build=no
hpijs-install=yes
foomatic-drv-install=yes
foomatic-ppd-install=yes
foomatic-rip-hplip-install=no
hpcups-install=yes
cups-drv-install=yes
cups-ppd-install=no
internal-tag=3.9.8.36
restricted-build=no
ui-toolkit=qt4
qt3=no
qt4=yes
policy-kit=yes
hpijs-only-build=no
lite-build=no
udev-acl-rules=yes

Current contents of '/var/lib/hp/hplip.state' file:
# hplip.state - HPLIP runtime persistent variables.

[plugin]
installed=0
eula=0

Current contents of '~/.hplip/hplip.conf' file:
[last_used]
printer_name = 1500
working_dir = .
device_uri = "hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1500_series?serial=TH96O5D3SF058V"

[commands]
scan = /usr/bin/xsane -V %SANE_URI%

[installation]
version = 3.9.8.36
date_time = 10/18/2009 22:31:29

[settings]
systray_messages = 0
systray_visible = 0

[fax]
email_address =
voice_phone =

[refresh]
rate = 10
enable = true
type = 1

[polling]
enable = false
device_list =
interval = 5

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| DISCOVERED USB DEVICES |
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  Device URI Model
  -------------------------------- -----------------------
  hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1500_series?ser HP Deskjet D1500 series
  ial=TH96O5D3SF058V

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| INSTALLED CUPS PRINTER QUEUES |
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1500
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Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1500_series?serial=TH96O5D3SF058V
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/1500.ppd
PPD Description: HP Deskjet d1500 Series hpijs, 3.9.8.36
Printer status: printer 1500 is idle. enabled since Sun 18 Oct 2009 10:10:02 PM IST ready to print
Communication status: Good

Canon-iP1000
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Type: Unknown
Device URI: usb://Canon/iP1000
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/Canon-iP1000.ppd
PPD Description: Canon PIXMA iP1000 Ver.2.50
Printer status: printer Canon-iP1000 is idle. enabled since Mon 12 Oct 2009 10:11:56 PM IST
warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend to function in HPLIP.

D1500-cups
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Type: Printer
Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1500_series?serial=TH96O5D3SF058V
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/D1500-cups.ppd
PPD Description: HP Deskjet d1500 Series, hpcups 3.9.8
Printer status: printer D1500-cups is idle. enabled since Sun 18 Oct 2009 09:34:00 PM IST
Communication status: Good

tp0
---
Type: Unknown
Device URI: usb://HP/Deskjet%20D1500%20series?serial=TH96O5D3SF058V
PPD: /etc/cups/ppd/tp0.ppd
PPD Description: HP Deskjet d2400 Series hpijs, 3.9.8
Printer status: printer tp0 is idle. enabled since Sun 18 Oct 2009 09:48:49 PM IST
warning: Printer is not HPLIP installed. Printers must use the hp: or hpfax: CUPS backend to function in HPLIP.

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| SANE CONFIGURATION |
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'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.conf'...
'hpaio' in '/etc/sane.d/dll.d/hplip'...
OK, found. SANE backend 'hpaio' is properly set up.

Checking output of 'scanimage -L'...
device `v4l:/dev/video0' is a Noname BT878 video (Prolink PixelView virtual device

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| PYTHON EXTENSIONS |
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Checking 'cupsext' CUPS extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'pcardext' Photocard extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'hpmudext' I/O extension...
OK, found.

Checking 'scanext' SANE scanning extension...
OK, found.

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| USB I/O SETUP |
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Checking for permissions of USB attached printers...

HP Device 0x1d04 at 002:003:
    Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_D1500_series?serial=TH96O5D3SF058V
    Device node: /dev/bus/usb/002/003
    Mode: 0660

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| USER GROUPS |
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las adm lp dialout fax cdrom tape audio dip video plugdev fuse lpadmin netdev admin sambashare vboxusers

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| SUMMARY |
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error: 3 errors and/or warnings.

Summary of needed commands to run to satisfy missing dependencies:
sudo aptitude install --assume-yes cupsddk cupsddk-drivers

Please refer to the installation instructions at:
http://hplip.sourceforge.net/install/index.html

Done.
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sudo aptitude install --assume-yes cupsddk cupsddk-drivers <----this is installed too but says need to install????

[las (bandara-ls)]

quality reduction (draft) setting works on color when color cart. selected but not with black only gray scale mode