HP Officejet 4000 k210 with hpcups does not print in draft mode

[jesus gumaro rendon suzuki]

i've tried to print from evince, okular, and finally adobe's. It worked for a couple of times while using adobe's, however, last week i tried to print from it and it failed, just the same way it was happening with evince, okular and printing from browser.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: cups 1.5.3-0ubuntu4
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-30.48-generic 3.2.27
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-30-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu12
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Sep 5 17:31:23 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
Lpstat:
 device for Officejet_4000_K210: hp:/usb/Officejet_4000_K210?serial=CN15K133N905MJ
 device for Stylus-T20: usb://EPSON/Stylus%20T20?serial=4B4B32503036323513
MachineType: Dell Inc. Dell System Inspiron N7110
Papersize: letter
PpdFiles:
 Stylus-T20: Epson Stylus T20 - CUPS+Gutenprint v5.2.8-pre1
 Officejet_4000_K210: HP Officejet 4000 k210, hpcups 3.12.4
ProcEnviron:
 TERM=xterm
 PATH=(custom, no user)
 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
ProcKernelCmdLine: BOOT_IMAGE=/boot/vmlinuz-3.2.0-30-generic root=UUID=cf39369f-3338-40e3-8b29-e0a98a02bf07 ro quiet splash vt.handoff=7
SourcePackage: cups
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-05-01 (127 days ago)
dmi.bios.date: 07/22/2011
dmi.bios.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.bios.version: A06
dmi.board.name: 05VJ58
dmi.board.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.board.version: A00
dmi.chassis.type: 8
dmi.chassis.vendor: Dell Inc.
dmi.chassis.version: 0.1
dmi.modalias: dmi:bvnDellInc.:bvrA06:bd07/22/2011:svnDellInc.:pnDellSystemInspironN7110:pvr:rvnDellInc.:rn05VJ58:rvrA00:cvnDellInc.:ct8:cvr0.1:
dmi.product.name: Dell System Inspiron N7110
dmi.sys.vendor: Dell Inc.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Does the problem occur on both printers or on only one, in the latter case on which one?

Please follow the instructions of the sections "CUPS error_log" and "Capturing print job data" on https://wiki.ubuntu.com/DebuggingPrintingProblems. Thanks.

[jesus gumaro rendon suzuki (gumaro-rendon)]

i did what you told me for CUPS error_log, i got to print a pdf from evince, but then again, when i try to print from chrome's pdf viewer it fails.

P.S. The printer i'm using is the officejet_4000_k210

[jesus gumaro rendon suzuki (gumaro-rendon)]

once it failed to print from chrome, i couldnt print again from evince.

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Can someone of the HPLIP developers at HP look into this?

[Till Kamppeter (till-kamppeter)]

Can you change the printing resolution or quality setting to see whether this makes your printer working?

[jesus gumaro rendon suzuki (gumaro-rendon)]

i updated hplip(3.12.9), i think i also updated something from cups, and it now seems to work fine, i'm going to wait and see if something changes.

[jesus gumaro rendon suzuki (gumaro-rendon)]

I discovered that the whole problem is that it doesn't print with draft mode, it does not only apply for pdf files but also for .doc, and the reason why i got to print with adobe while it didn't print with evince was that the option "draft grayscale" was overwritten from the printing menu of evince.