Re: When printing, chars are replaced with square graphic char'

Just an FYI, as soon as I started printing using Postscript Level 2 instead of
3, it seemed to resolve the problem.

However, a few days later, the printer software/display froze requiring a hard
power reset.  And then a few hours later, again it would freeze with "HP >>"
and have confirmed through HP support it is a bad formatter board -- described
on other Internet forums as a bad formatter board as well.

Appears, this bad char printing problem was occurring silently for the past 6+
months, nor did I even suspect it was hardware related!

I've reset the firmware per HP instructions and am now just waiting to see if
this problem resolves itself for sure, before shipping things back from Alaska
($200) or paying a $70 charge to get a refurbished replacement. (Technically, I
shouldn't have to pay anything from what I understand.)

I've also posted this issue to the cairo mailing list and will likely copy/post
this info there as well for anybody having similar problems.  And, the cairo
mailing list is where I found out the above mentioned Postscript Level 2/3
issues.


> On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 11:35:45PM -0800, Roger wrote:
>
>Geez.  All this for this:
>
>Edit /etc/cups/ppd/ file and make the following change:
>
>-- *LanguageLevel: "2"
>++ *LanguageLevel: "3"
>
>Problem solved.
>
>I've posted notes and the solution concerning this odd problem to Gentoo
>Cups
>Wiki.
>
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>Roger
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