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HP deskjet 1000, MacOSX 10.6.8
HP Deskjet 1000 J110 series:
Status: Idle
Print Server: Local
Driver Version: 1.3.1
Default: Yes
URI: usb://HP/Deskjet%201000%20J110%20series?serial=CN0AN2P04V05D2
PPD: HP Deskjet 1000 J110 series
PPD File Version: 1.3.1
PostScript Version: (3011.104) 0
CUPS Version: 1.4.7 (cups-218.31)
Fax support: No
Scanning support: No
Scanning app: -
Scanning app (bundleID path): -
Scanner UUID: -
Trying to print a PDF (not public). Prints a few lines, then ejects the paper, then continues on this pattern forever. Occasionally, after a few trials, it works.
Also, I would gladly welcome any explanation at the highest technical level possible why this happens and if happens on other printers, in terms of protocols, timings, or any other reason?
You are missing: details of any updates or patches on your system
Standard MacOSX, updated to 10.6.8 when it was released. No other additions.
how long this has been
Since I first bought it, but occasionally.
if it was like this out of the box;
No, not immediately, but I can't associate the beginning of the behavior to any operation I took. I don't print often, though.
if another printer works fine
I don't own two printers, nor I plan to buy a new one to check if it works. In any case, printing to pdf works fine.
if this happens with another computer
I can't test this either, but I noticed however that when the printing was successful, the resulting printout had occasional hiccups, like the border of a frame repeated a few lines below, and characters half translated horizontally.
What I don't understand is if this can happen due to the pdf being corrupt, although it shows properly in Preview, and I have no problems in generating a new pdf out of it that looks absolutely fine.
1Are the PDF's generated by the same application? Or does it happen with PDF's from any source? – Nifle – 2011-10-28T15:34:15.027
Have you tried printing from a different PDF viewer/reader/editor? – Supercereal – 2011-10-28T15:37:39.657
@Nifle: the pdf came to be by email. If I export to pdf and try to print that pdf, it seems to work. I also tried again to print the document this evening, and not it gives no problem. The printer is not always connected. Maybe reconnecting it now made it work, although I tried the same trick this morning and it did not give results (it still didn't work) – Stefano Borini – 2011-10-28T15:43:28.550
@Kyle: I dont' have other pdf viewers on osx. I use Preview. The biggest issue with this thing is that does not occur with a regular pattern. It just happens occasionally, and when it does, it does it three or four times in a row, then it works, then it does not work anymore, so it's very difficult to diagnose. This is why I need detailed info about how this thing works, because I need to understand it so to diagnose it. – Stefano Borini – 2011-10-28T15:45:22.933
Is this only on
PDF
? – gadgetmo – 2012-02-12T09:06:29.740Have you tried replacing the printer cable, in case some electrical interference may be corrupting the document data on its way to the printer? – Darth Continent – 2012-03-23T13:45:00.643
This sounds more like an issue with the PDF to PCL conversion. I don't know how to check the exact commandline used by CUPS, but if you can get a PCL viewer and you can get that commandline (it should involve invoking ghostscript (
gs
) with a PostScript Printer Description to generate PCL code, you could check whether the document was being properly converted. Keep in mind that 1) PDF's are not that portable, it's easy to mess a document up; 2)gs
does not support everything — it does a pretty good job, but if CUPS is usinggs
to generate PCL, you may be hitting ags
bug. – njsg – 2012-03-26T14:28:18.480