epson 740 printing background horizontal lines/scratces SuSE 9.1

Hi

Has anyone seen this problem?  Here is my post  to Suse forum so far but 
have'nt got answer so far.  I am still experiencing this problem.


I am using SuSE 9.1 and the epson color 740 is printing unwanted 
horizontal line throughout the page. I don't think it is a printer 
problem since I did not get this in SuSE 9.0. I have upgraded the cups 
driver 'cups-1.1.20-103', 'cups-drivers-1.1.20-66.1' and the latest 
gimp-print ' gimp-print-5.0.0-alpha2-1'. I selected the PPD file in Yast 
as Foomatic/gimp-print for the epson 740.

The printer prints ok but these horizontal lines appear throughout the 
page. I have been searching the web but can't get answer.

Anybody got the same

Lmcogs
  
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You aren't by any chance printing from Windows running under VMware when 
this happens?


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Keith Kastorff
  
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Hi

No! standalone desktop sytem, no windows .

Lmcogs
  
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Hi

I am replying to myself, it's like talking to oneself but I suppose it 
lets you know what kind of problems we are having.

I was getting fed up with the horizontal lines in the printing, like 
scratches so I deleted all cups, driver, libs, client etc and installed 
the SuSE 9.0 cups ' 1.1.19-75' version. It's early days of course yet 
but the printing does seem to be better, although I have only printed a 
couple of pages. So I will wait with fingers crossed to test results, 
Will keep ye all informed!

Lmcogs
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hi

Back again with the latest. I am not getting much help from the forum! 
Anyway no luck, the horizontal lines/scratches are back even with the 
old cups. Here is what new thing I tried.

1 Hooked up a laptop running Window 2000 and the printer responded 
brilliantly, quicker and type much sharper

2 Back ot SuSE deleted foomatic filter and installed SuSE 9 foomatic 
filter. No good lines again and type much fainter than windows

3 Reinstalled SuSE 9.1's all things cups and foomatic filter No good!

3 Hooked up the printer using parallel port and configured it in Yast, 
thinking it may be a 'usb' thing but unfortunately this did not work. 
Still got the lines.

So I am back to square but I do know it's not the printer which operated 
great in Windows.

So any help would be appreciated.

Lmcogs
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Can't believe nobody has had this problem.

My next move was to hook up another laptop with this printer using suse 
9.1 and the result was the same horizontal lines throughout the page.

Lmcogs
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The only time I've seen something like you describe occurs when I print 
from Windows XP (client) from SuSE 9.1 Pro (Vmware host) and use a PCL 
driver. If I use a Postscript driver for my HP 4550DN from the Windows 
XP Vmware session, everything is fine. I just haven't seen your 
particular problem outside of that scenario.


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The latest with my problem

It seems that the printer now works properly ppd  foomatic/stcolor but 
only with that file .   However scratches appear when printing in the 
gimp with this ppd file.  The other option were

1 Foomatic/gimp-print
2 Foomatic/print-ijs
3 CUPS+Gimp-Print

All drivers worked in the Gimp but all produced scratches/lines.

Outside Gimp

2 & 3 did not work at all and 1 which was recommended was the one which 
produced all the scratches/lines througout the page.

Does this mean that this printer cannot use gimp-print? Or maybeit only 
works with graphics or in the gimp?

We shall see but in the meantime I will use the 4th option, it's pretty 
good with text, so far!

Oh, the epson stylus color 740 although old is a great wee printer.

Lmcogs




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