[cups.general] Black & Blue with hp D4100 series drivers...

[Joe(theWordy)Philbrook]

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I tried searching the forum and the bug reports with a search keyword of
"D4100" and again with "D4160" but it didn't find anything...  

I have a multi boot p3 desktop with cups hp d4100 series drivers
installed for my hp D4160 printer in, Kubuntu (edgy), & fedora Core 6
linux installations. And the hp proprietary driver installed in win98se.

I also have a multi-boot  gateway laptop with amd Turion 64 dual
processor with the cups driver installed in kubuntu (edgy), Mepis,
& Sabayon linux. as well as limited proprietary driver installed to
Vista.

For some reason ALL of my linux are printing black text with blue ink???

=> http://localhost:631/printers  (on the p3 desktop's kubuntu installation)
=> 
=> describes this printer as:
=> 
=> D4160 (Default Printer)
=> 	Description: HP Deskjet D4100 series
=> Location: Local Printer
=> Make and Model: HP DeskJet D4100 Foomatic/hpijs (recommended) - HPLIP 1.6.9
=> Printer State: idle, accepting jobs, published.
=> Device URI: hp:/usb/Deskjet_D4100_series?serial=TH67J8334004D6

I created an spreadsheet document with ooffice2 and saved it as an
"excel" file. Put a copy of it on both the PC and the laptop in a
"fat" partition {accessible to all the linux & the windows installations}
on each computer. 

The black text and cell borders print blue from any of the linux.

But if I print it from windows (MS Office on vista or an outdated
staroffice {v6} installation on win98se) this same document prints with 
black text from the windows installation on either computer. So I don't
believe it's a printer or computer hardware malfunction...

Since it prints with blue ink from all the above linux installations
{on both computers}, I doubt it's a linux distribution problem.

At the moment I'm using the kubuntu installation on the p3 desktop. From
which I just used the hp-toolbox utility to print a test page and all the
text on the page is in blue ink... Thus I don't think it's an ooffice
problem. 

But I have no idea if it's a bug or a feature... All I know is this way
it's using up my color cartridge too fast, and my black cartridge will last
long enough to actually dry out... 

I supposed I could print using greyscale which should force the
use of the black cartridge. But it still came up blue... Besides which
"greyscale" would mess with the small amount of color text I do have in
some of my documents.


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