[NBLUG/talk] Printer gone wild

[Jippen]

You should make a video and sell it. "Printers gone wild" ~goes back
into the shadows~

On 1/27/07, Mark Osborne <goldenirma at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well....
> Tried all the permutations in printer set up. Still tie-dyed out of
> Linux..
>
> Re-installed the cartridges, set the properties to gery scale; black
> cartridge...
>
>
>
> Stump the list time.....
>
> Thanks,
>
> M
>
>
> --- Dave Sisley <dsisley at sonic.net> wrote:
>
> > Mark Osborne wrote:
> >
> > >Hi folks,
> > >Running a Dell P4 with Ubuntu Edgy.
> > >HP 5610 worked fine until ink ran out on black cartridge. After
> > >replacing, pages starts in black, and goes through entire rainbow
> > until
> > >it becomes unreadable by about the second page.
> > >
> > >If I plug in the USB cable to my work laptop (win XP) the printer
> > works
> > >fine.....
> > >
> > >HP is no help at all.
> > >
> > >Any ideas?
> > >
> > >
> > Mark:
> >
> > I had a user at work who had a problem where everything they printed
> > from an HP all-in-one (the psc1350, I think) came out green, but if
> > they
> > used the scanner as a copier, it came out black.  It turns out that
> > there's a setting in the printer configs that tells the printer to
> > use
> > the color cartridge, rather than the black (grayscale) one.  Somehow
> > his
> > desktop was set to use the color cartridge.  We couldn't figure out
> > why
> > that would have been set that way, but maybe it switches over when
> > the
> > black runs out?  Or maybe it's haunted.
> >
> > I can't recall whether he had to change it in the basic printer
> > configs
> > or in OpenOffice, or both (OO is funny that way).  Obviously, I'd
> > check
> > the system-wide settings first, but check a general app like firefox
> > and
> > then an OpenOffice doc if that's what you use.
> >
> > Obviously, this isn't a perfect answer, but perhaps a clue...  Good
> > luck!
> >
> > -dave.
> >
> > --
> > Dave Sisley
> > dsisley at sonic.net
> > roth-sisley.net
> >
> >
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