Thanks for the reply, comments below... >-----Original Message----- >From: fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:fedora-list-bounces@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of James Wilkinson >Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 10:41 AM >To: fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx >Subject: Re: Reverse Question - FC2 Prints over network perfectly,Windows XP does not >Berg, Ivan Michael (Ivan) wrote: >> This is actually a reverse problem, in that all works fine printing to >> a shared printer from my Fedora Core 2 box, but when printing locally >> to the printer from WinXP, the printer produces horizontal lines! >> >> Now, all used to be fine printing locally from WinXP to my old school >> BJ200, with occasional horizontal lines fixed by cleaning the printer >> or replacing the cartridge. Now, imagine my surprise when I print from >> my >> FC2 box, and it prints flawlessly 100% of the time! >> >> Every application in WinXP (Word, Firefox, Excel, etc.) now has >> trouble printing locally with horizontal lines. Why does FC2 work fine >> printing to the same exact printer over the network? Doesn't it >> eventually use the same BJ200 Windows driver that seems to be having issues? >Erm ... no. Not as I understand it. >Turning the print job into whatever the printer understands is done by the computer that wants to print. So XP will be doing the >GDI -> BJ200, while Fedora will be doing the whatever -> Postscript -> BJ200. Yea, makes sense, would there be something different in the way postscript send it's job to the printer vs GDI? >> Windows XP SP2 with latest Canon BJ200 driver - shared on network >So that driver comes from Canon; it's not one that comes with WinXP? It is actually the WinXP driver, which I don't think the driver has changed in ages, since the BJ200 is one of the original inkjet printers. >So you're getting regular horizontal lines? Or are they irregular? Do you get the rest of your print job "behind" them? I am getting fairly regular horizontal lines between the characters. In other words, print a line, the put white out through the middle of the characters on most lines. On windows, entire job has these lines on almost every line (almost as if there is ink problems, since it is not perfectly regular) >Does the printer emulate anything else? How about trying a BJ-100 driver? No, it's a straight and true BJ200 that has been working for 8+ years. Sometimes with this type of problem caused by "fuzz" in the printer. But this has been cleaned, and why would FC2 print better?? >James. -- E-mail address: james | "Minis on the other hand are just the wrong size. Too @westexe.demon.co.uk | small to work on directly and too large to put | upside down on the workbench." | -- stevo at madcelt.org -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
