[Solved]How to change print quality in KDE?

[unclebob]

Hello.

I would like to change print quality when printing in KDE. For example select 'Draft Grayscale' to save the coloured ink.

There are options available on OpenOffice (v2.1) for changing print mode, quality, etc but I don't seem to have any options in KDE apps, eg KMail, Konqueror, etc.

Where are/how do I get these options?

I've got a HP Photosmart 3110, hplip 0.9.7-r3, cups 1.2.6, KDE 3.5.

One, possibly important, fact is that my cups web interface is playing up but otherwise cups seems to be working fine. I've got another thread on the web interface problem - http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-3934391.html


Thanks for the help.
UBob

[Headrush]

The options should be in the KDE printer dialog if the PPD file for your printer includes this information.

My guess is if they aren't there, you might need a different PPD or that feature isn't supported yet.

[unclebob]

Hi, Headrush.

The options should be in the KDE printer dialog if the PPD file for your printer includes this information.

My guess is if they aren't there, you might need a different PPD or that feature isn't supported yet.

I don't know how to tell exactly which ppd file is being used by cups but the only ppd I have in /etc/cups/ppd/ is the hpps3110.ppd.

In cups the Model of the printer matches the 'Nickname' in the ppd.
The Model in the kde printer configuration matches as well. OO appears to just be using printer set up in kde.

The ppd has all sorts of modes etc that look to match the ones usable from openoffice.

Thanks
UBob

[unclebob]

The options should be in the KDE printer dialog if the PPD file for your printer includes this information.

Just to make absolutely sure I'm not being blind... where exactly would these options appear? Do they show just in the printer configuration tool, in the properties or options or system options sections of print dialogs, somewhere else?

Ta.

[DtZ]

Run "kcmshell printers", go into administrator mode and look in: Your_Printer_name->Instances->Settings->Driver Settings->Printout Mode

[unclebob]

Run "kcmshell printers", go into administrator mode and look in: Your_Printer_name->Instances->Settings->Driver Settings->Printout Mode

Yep, had looked there, there is no 'Driver Settings' tab for me, just 'General', 'Image', 'Text', 'HP-GL/2', 'Margins' and 'Filters'.

But...!

Running it from the command line showed me output on stderr:

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kdeprint: WARNING: PPD syntax error, PPD parse failed

I went to Your_Printer_name->Properties->Driver and it shows the correct driver is being used but I tried to select it again in the Change Driver dialog I got a pop-up with:

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Unable to load the requested driver:
/usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-ppds/HP-PhotoSmart_3100-hpijs.ppd(line 1): syntax error, unexpected QUOTED

The start of the ppd is:

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*PPD-Adobe: "4.3"
*%
*% For information on using this, and to obtain the required backend
*% script, consult http://www.linuxprinting.org/
*%
*% This file is published under the GNU General Public License

I tried downloading the ppd from http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cg ... Smart_3100 but it's almost exactly the same, and still won't parse.

So perhaps OpenOffice can parse the ppd but KDE is too picky?

[unclebob]

Running it from the command line showed me output on stderr:

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kdeprint: WARNING: PPD syntax error, PPD parse failed

Looks like it might be a problem with kdelibs.

Changing my CFLAGS from

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CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

to

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CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

and recompiling kdelibs fixes the problem.

I'll try rebuilding it with -O3 and see if it craps out again.

[unclebob]

Looks like it might be a problem with kdelibs.

Changing my CFLAGS from

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CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O3 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

to

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CFLAGS="-march=athlon64 -O2 -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"

and recompiling kdelibs fixes the problem.

I'll try rebuilding it with -O3 and see if it craps out again.

Yep. Comes back again if I use -O3.

So, if you can't see the 'Driver Settings' tab, have trouble creating printers, get errors like:

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Unable to load the requested driver:
/usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-ppds/HP-PhotoSmart_3100-hpijs.ppd(line 161): parser stack overflow

or

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Unable to load the requested driver:
/usr/share/cups/model/foomatic-ppds/HP-PhotoSmart_3100-hpijs.ppd(line 1): syntax error, unexpected QUOTED

consider the possibility of shagged kdelibs.

Heres a bugzilla entry: http://bugs.gentoo.org/show_bug.cgi?id=168967

Thanks for all the suggestions.