LaserJet 4M PostScript print quality/functionality
I have a LaserJet4M, connected to my Mac (and all my other machines) using its ethernet JetDirect card.
My problem is that the PostScript driver for the 4M appears to have disappeared. Printing with the generic PostScript driver works only for simple documents. Printing with the Gutenprint driver results in poor quality output. (Gutenprint has never given me good output for graphics, rather than text, with this printer.)
Has anyone figured out how to get the PostScript driver for the 4M/4M-Plus from previous OS X releases to work with Snow Leopard?
Apple -- you've really dropped the ball here.
The PPDs in question are already present on the newer machine.
I tried both the LaserJet 5M and LaserJet 4ML drivers, with no real change.
Any PostScript sent (from Preview, for example) yields
"ERROR: invalidfont
OFFENDING COMMAND: show
STACK:
The old iBook G4 and the Windows machines all print PostScript just fine.
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u'job-config-changed',
u'job-created',
u'job-progress',
u'job-state-changed',
u'job-stopped',
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u'printer-finishings-changed',
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4,
5,
6],
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'pages-per-minute-color': 1,
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u'adobe-1.3',
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'port-monitor-supported': [u'none'],
'ppd-timestamp': u'*',
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'print-color-mode-supported': [u'monochrome',
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I read your post and see that you need the drivers for the P1102w printer. I can provide the website for you.
Here is the link for the HP Linux Imaging and Printing website. HP Linux imaging and printing.
Here is the link for the P1102w drivers. HP LaserJet Professional p1102w Printer.
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PDF files scanned at B & W print to an HP 2055dn Postscript printer as white on black
PDF files scanned at B & W print to an HP 2055dn Postscript printer as white on black. Non postscript printers print the same file correctly. This is the case with three different scanners. Scanning the same sheets into greyscale prints fine with all printers.
HP claims it is not a problem with their printers. Someone from Fujitsu (makers of Scansnap) said to "
Verify that Advance Emit Transfer (print correction function for the Mac print table) is unchecked. Go to Print > Advanced Emit Transfer Function and click to uncheck. " but I can't seem to find anything like that at all.
I really prefer to scan in B & W, as I have to scan several hundred pages and the resulting file is both smaller and higher quality than the grayscale files, but I can't print them at home; I have to use the printer at work and that really isn't appropriate.Hi,
Can you try some experiments please - or tell us if you have tried them.
1) Load a new image (one that hasn't been saved before) into the editor and without saving it, try printing from the editor. It is important that PSE hasn't saved it.
2) Load any image into the editor and do a Save for Web (you may have to reduce the size) in JPG format and see if you can print that JPG either from PSE or another program.
Please let us know the results.
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PSE7 Editor Poor Print Quality
I am printing to an HP Laserjet 1200, monochrome. It is not an inkjet. When I upload a picture, it prints fine from the Organizer. When I then open it with Editor, and print to the same printer (without making any changes to the image), I get the message "Some PostScript print settings... will be ignored since you are printing to a non-PostScript printer." The Laserjet is non-PostScript. It then prints, however the quality is poorer. This same image will print with good quality using the Windows XP Picture and Fax Viewer, so it seems Editor specific. The Editor window says it is printing at 306 PPI, which seems adequate.
I can find no options in PE7 that might cause this difference between Editor and Organizer printing.
Is there something I should be looking at in options?43,
Ink has a limited life span. It is sad, I know. The ink in the printer may just be "old" beyond it's actual age.
I have an old J6480 that I use only occasionally -- it is such a good printer that I keep it in spite of the fact that I might have to change out the cartridges more frequently than when the unit actually runs out of ink.
You might change out the cartridges so you are not coating the insides of the printer with the old ink.
If you are not going to use the printer very often, it does seem to help to keep it stored in a cabinet: dark and enclosed where there is not an abundance of light, dust, dampness, or temperature differences. I keep the J6480 in a cabinet on the other side of the house and use it wirelessly about every six months.
You may have to re-run the cleaning operation a couple of times after you do change the ink; change out the cartridges, test, and then decide.
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Hello,
I usually print web pages with a very small font (using the print preview function with a zoom of around 40%). The problem is that the relatively small letters which were printed don't look very smooth or of high quality. They look rathr poor.
However, I have a post-script laster printer (Lexmark E450 DN), and if I print PDF-files with Adobe Acrobat with a very small font the letters look very nice and smooth.
If I wouldn't know it better it would seem to me that the file which firefox sends to the printer is not a postscript file, because if it would be a proper postscript file then my printer would print the file with the best quality.
Can anyone help me?
I look forward to your answers,
ViliethaSome additional informations:
I printed some pages with small font-size (40% in firefox print preview) into a pdf-file ("print to file"), and then I opened it with the Adobe-Acrobat-Reader, and the file seems to be a proper Pdf-file. When I print it with the Acrobat-Reader, the qualitiy is nice.
However, if I print the web-page directly with my printer from firefox, the quality is not good. The printed page looks like it was send to the printer as a low-resolution raster-image.
But both times I printed directly from Firefox..., and Firefox seems to be the only program which has this problem. I remember that when I used Firefox 3 or so, the problem was not there. The problem is only here since Firefox 8 or so it seems to me. Updates to Firefox 9, 10 etc have not solved the problem.
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