printer HP LaserJet 6P prints wrong pages (with ubuntu 8.04 work very well)

[giancarlogiesa]

with ubuntu 11.04 and now i can confirm the problem also for 12.04 with the printer HP LaserJet 6P that print crazy pages!
i can confirm that the same printer with ubuntu 10.04 work very well!

the installed cups version is the ufficial ubuntu package (updated with ufficial repository)

on ubuntu 11.04 i reported this(i don't remember how take out it on ubuntu 12.04):

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 11.04
Package: cups 1.4.6-5ubuntu1.4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.38-11.48-generic 2.6.38.8
Uname: Linux 2.6.38-11-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
CupsErrorLog:

Date: Thu Sep 15 12:28:37 2011
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.04 "Natty Narwhal" - Release amd64 (20110427.1)
Lpstat: device for Hewlett-Packard-HP-LaserJet-6P: hp:/par/HP_LaserJet_6P?device=/dev/parport0
Lsusb:
 Bus 003 Device 002: ID 0d8c:013c C-Media Electronics, Inc.
 Bus 003 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 002 Device 002: ID 045e:0040 Microsoft Corp. Wheel Mouse Optical
 Bus 002 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0001 Linux Foundation 1.1 root hub
 Bus 001 Device 001: ID 1d6b:0002 Linux Foundation 2.0 root hub
MachineType: Packard Bell NEC IMEDIA 6419
Papersize: a4
PpdFiles: Hewlett-Packard-HP-LaserJet-6P: HP LaserJet 6P/6MP - PostScript
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=it_IT:en
 LANG=it_IT.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.38-11-generic root=UUID=15144706-9b45-47f1-98eb-54b53b977de3 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install)
dmi.bios.date: 05/04/2005
dmi.bios.vendor: American Megatrends Inc.
dmi.bios.version: 080012
dmi.board.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.board.name: MS-7168
dmi.board.vendor: NEC COMPUTERS INTERNATIONAL
dmi.board.version: 1.0
dmi.chassis.asset.tag: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.type: 3
dmi.chassis.vendor: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.chassis.version: To Be Filled By O.E.M.
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnAmericanMegatrendsInc.:bvr080012:bd05/04/2005:svnPackardBellNEC:pnIMEDIA6419:pvrPB34105306:rvnNECCOMPUTERSINTERNATIONAL:rnMS-7168:rvr1.0:cvnToBeFilledByO.E.M.:ct3:cvrToBeFilledByO.E.M.:
dmi.product.name: IMEDIA 6419
dmi.product.version: PB34105306
dmi.sys.vendor: Packard Bell NEC

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Can you follow the instructions in the sections "CUPS error_log" and "Capturing print job data" of https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems? Can you also scan or photograph the bad printouts? Thanks.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for cups (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]

[giancarlogiesa (giancarlogiesa)]

sorry for the last comment where there is only one bedugging information
here in the attachment there is all debugging information

[giancarlogiesa (giancarlogiesa)]

as asked here there is a photo of a printed job

[giancarlogiesa (giancarlogiesa)]

i have found a "manual" solution
remove the automatic installation and reinstall it by specifiing the model

the automatic procedure will use the driver for the hp laserjet 6P/6MP (postscript)
with the manual installation i used the driver laserjet 6P (hpcups 3.12.2[en]) and this one works very good!

one more note:
CUPS when i plugin the printer understand that is 6P, so i don't understand why it will use in the automatic installation the driver 6p/6MP..

[gf (gf-interlinks-deactivatedaccount)]

Hello Giancarlogiesa
Thank you for submitting this bug and reporting a problem with system-config-printer. You made this bug report in 2011 and Ubuntu has been updated since then.

Could you confirm that this is no longer a problem and that we can close the bug report?
If it is still a problem, are you still interested in finding a solution to this bug?
If you are, could you let us know, and in the current version, run the following (only once):
apport-collect BUGNUMBER
and upload the updated logs and and any other logs that are relevant for this particular issue.

Thank you again for helping make Ubuntu better.
G
[Ubuntu Bug Squad volunteer triager]

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for system-config-printer (Ubuntu) because there has been no activity for 60 days.]