hiya, ive been using cups for some time but i was wondering how i could do those check and repair procedures like on win? i can't remember the names but there is head alignment and another two to improve the print quality.

cheers guys!!

Sounds like you have an epsom stylus?
Have you tried escputil?

Failing this - more printer info.
(You can also browse the driver options and the printer setup. Generally, you can acheive similar results to the windows way - you just use a different approach.)

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lol very cool! i downloaded the song to compare the lyrics and ur version sounds very funny

do u like pink floyd? they were fantastic at live 8... i so wish i went saw REM and feeder recently which ruled.

as far as the printer thing goes, i use the official hp drivers - maybe they have prompt parameters for it. and i have a Deskjet 5650.

Pink Floyd is off topic. (I got to help set up a PF concert in NZ and sang a song to an empty stadium before the roadies told me to stop it.)

The hp drivers are pretty good. The deskjet can park it's own heads. You can tweek things in the cups settings pretty well. Basically, this is a case of linux doing everything by default that you need special software to acheive in windows.

I don't know how slack is set up - but I can change pretty much anything in my hp laserjet IIIp pcl5 - and there are several drivers which will work. Check out the driver notes and read through the printer settings for ideas.

I havn't tried the hpoj driver though.

AFAIK: only the epsom stylus needs special routines (unclogging the heads and so on.)

ok, im starting to get the hang of how these printer checks work. ill have a look through the driver documentation

cheers m8, keep using linux!