Gutenprint drivers report undersized margins as "printer not responding"

[myob]

I've got a HP Photosmart B110a wireless printer with JetDirect, to which Haiku can successfully transfer data using the JetDirect transport addon. However, it supports the elderly PCL3C language and nothing newer so Gutenprint is needed to make it print.

When set up with a standard PCL5 or 6 driver it "prints" (either stalling or gibberish, as expected). When set up with as any printer in Gutenprint, you instantly get "printer not responding" on attempting a job. It works on other architechtures as a Deskjet 1220C

This is being returned from libprint (GraphicsDriver.cpp) but I'm not skilled enough to figure out why this is the case. The printer also allegedly supports IPP but this appears not to be working.

[laplace]

Since the PCL5 and PCL6 drivers are also based on libprint, so if JetDirect works there it should work with Gutenprint too. Can you double check, that JetDirect is configured correctly when Gutenprint driver is used?

[myob]

The configuration required for JetDirect consists of putting the IP address in; thats all, so its identical no matter what driver is used.

[laplace]

That's quite strange.

Can you post the output from print_server when you try to print using the Gutenprint driver? (quit the print_server with process controller, then in Terminal change into folder /boot/system/servers and run print_server with ./print_server).

[myob]

It appears this is actually a case of an incorrect error message:

Connected to HP JetDirect printer port at 192.168.1.35:9100
Driver: pcl-1220
PageSize Letter
Resolution 150dpi
InputSlot 
PrintingMode Color
GPDriver nextBand x 7, y 6, width 128, height 19
GPJob imageable area left 18, top 3, right 594, bottom 759
GPJob raw image dimensions left 7, top 6, width 128, height 19
GPJob image dimensions left 0, top 0, width 151, height 26
GPJob image dimensions in 1/72 Inches:
left 0, top 0, width 72, height 12
GPJob Gutenprint Error: Top margin must not be less than 3
Left margin must not be less than 18

GPJob PrintPage: invalid variables

If I increase the margins to an inch all round, we get data sent to the printer.

[myob]

I've just tested this over a USB connection and its not JetDirect related at all. I didn't realise the printer *had* USB as it was taped over.

There's a seperate problem with JetDirect that I'll report in a new ticket, I'm changing the title here to reflect the actual problem with margins.

[laplace]

The problem should have been fixed in hrev39734. From the log I can see that you used a version before hrev39733. Can you test with a current build?

[humdinger]

Is this still valid?

[cian]

Works with an extremely similar printer under A4.1, so I suspect that was the issue

[axeld]

Thanks for the update!