Printing problem w. Photosmart 8450.

Mikkel mikkel at infinity-ltd.com
Tue Jan 5 01:44:10 UTC 2010


On 01/04/2010 06:08 PM, Erik P. Olsen wrote:
> I have an HP Photosmart 8450 installed on fedora 12. It prints
> beautifully when it comes to colour pages on plain paper format A4.
> However, when printing photos it fails. I simply cannot force it to
> print 4 by 6 inch borderless photos. The printer test page comes out in
> the correct size but the printer does not accept that the photo tray is
> activated and when I activate the A4 plain paper tray the 4 by 6 inch
> test page comes out on A4 paper.
> 
> I have set the following options:
> 
> Media Size: Photo Borderless 4x6 in
> Media source: Photo tray
> Output Mode: Color
> Media Type: Photo Paper
> Print Quality: High-Resolution Photo
> Installed Inks: Photo + Color
> 
> The driver is: hpcups 3.8.9
> 
> Does anyone know what is wrong?
> 
Try using "Black + Color". Even though I have 3 color, 1 photo
black, and one black cartilage, the "Photo + Color leads to a wrong
paper size error when trying to use the photo tray...

Mikkel
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