CUPS printers and HP 5600 printer

[Rick Stevens]

Chris Hobson wrote:
> I have an HP 5600 printer that worked just fine with my Fedora box until 
> I changed the black cartridge with a new HP one. On my windows machine, 
> I got messages about aligning the print cartridge, and everything worked 
> fine after that. However, using CUPS on my (much preferred) Fedora box, 
> the printout is always less than good quality, and the system complains 
> that the printer is low on ink (which it isn't, since its a new 
> cartridge and only used a few times so far)
> 
> The printout quality is a slightly slight shade of blue / black, rather 
> than the impressive deep black I get on that (horrible) Windows machine.
> 
> It seems to be due to the CUPS printer as my wife gets the same thing 
> and she has a Ubuntu machine

Make sure you have the hplip RPM installed and run hp-align and hp-info.
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