[Mageia-discuss] HP all in one DeskJet 1050 J410

[blind Pete]

on Fri, 16 Sep 2011 20:56
in the Usenet newsgroup gmane.linux.mageia.user
Florian Hubold wrote:

> Am 16.09.2011 09:55, schrieb blind Pete:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> After seeing the recent threads about hplip testing it seemed
>> like a good time to play with my "new" printer, that is a year
>> or so old.  It is an all in one printer scanner copier,
>> a HP DeskJet 1050 J140.  It was cheaper than buying replacement
>> ink cartridges for my old PSC.
>>
>> It has never quite worked for me.  Various Linux installations
>> do different things.  Just dealing with the test pages they
>> all seem to be missing something; black, magenta, all of the
>> text, or the bottom of the page.  From Mageia it seems to be
>> missing black.  It has been officially supported since hplip
>> 3.10.6, I think.
>>
>> Has anyone seen that model working?  It looks like an
>> upstream bug, but it is manifesting itself differently
>> on different distributions.  Who should I submit a bug
>> report to?  (And how many?)  The good news is that the
>> scanner part works since the update.
>>
>> BTW what is LEDM?  It seems to be part of the update.
>>
> LEDM means Low End Data Model, is also a fax protocol,
> and in this hplip update they added LEDM ADF scanning
> (ADF = automatic document feed) and LEDM wireless support.
> 
> For your issues you should report this directly to hplip developers:
> https://launchpad.net/hplip/+filebug

That would be the place, but I think that I have broken 
hardware.  

 
>  From a short google search it seems for some others with
> a recent enough hplip version the printer seems to work,
> common problem seems to be the scanner.
> 
> Did you check that the printer itself prints a testpage correct
> and not that maybe the ink cardridge is dried in?

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