Grey printing on HP P2015

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David Morrison - 20 Sep 2007 15:26 GMT

Hello

I am working at a place which has a HP Laserjet P2015n, a low-end laser
printer. Whenever I print something, all the blacks come out as a mid-grey.
Even dark colours come out as mid-grey.

As far as I can tell from looking at it in Windows, this is not a postscript
printer, but uses PCL.

Initially, I was using the built-in generic printer driver. Then I got the
official HP driver (PPD file, really), but it made no difference.

All I have been able to find is a report of a bug being fixed in a very old
version of Gimp-print that had this sort of behaviour for all HP printers and
some others.

Anyone have any ideas?

Cheers

David

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20cents - 21 Sep 2007 08:43 GMT

> Hello
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> David

My HP Laserjet 2100tn produced the type of output you describe when I
set the quality to draft.
Even though it saved me some toner, I did not like the look and changed
back to the defaults.
I hope that is your problem because it is an easy fix.
Have a look at this URL and see if it brings up your printer:
<http://127.0.0.1:631/printers/>

cheers,
Darryl

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Mac Forum / Country Specific / Australian Mac Group / September 2007

Grey printing on HP P2015