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silverojo
 Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 139 |
I'm using Lucid Puppy with Firefox v.3.6.6, and have always had a problem printing web pages. When I print a web page, the white areas are filled with big gray dots, about 2mm or 3mm...all over the page. Needless to say, if I ever needed to scan one of those pages (to dispute a billing error, etc.), these gray dots would look like black dots all over the page. The dots are lighter when I use standard instead of draft printing, but they're still present and wasting a lot of printer ink. I can print documents in any other program with no problems--all except Firefox. Does anybody know what might cause this, or what I can do to stop it? _________________ MY PC's SPECS: * PC: Firelite 1200 D * RAM: 512 MB * CPU: AMD Duron, 892 MHz * HD: Maxtor 2F030J0 * CD-RW: Atapi CD-R/RW CW078D * MONITOR: Compaq 5500 * SOUND CARD: SiS 7018 Wave * ETHERNET: Network Everywhere (NC100 v2) |
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Jasper
 Joined: 25 Apr 2010 Posts: 889 Location: England |
Hi, Personally, I have not the smallest clue. Though e.g. rcrsn51 has superb expertise and is a great helper with such problems. However, this section is really meant for solutions as opposed to questions - if you don't get an answer with in 24 hours you might ask Flash, our moderator, to move this thread. My regards |
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rcrsn51
 Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7833 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
1. What printer are you using? 2. Is the problem specific to your Lucid/Firefox setup? If you try Seamonkey in another Puppy do you have the same problem? 3. What happens if you print the web page to a PDF file, then print from the PDF viewer program? 4. Does the effect show in Print Preview? I have printed from numerous versions of Firefox and I have never seen this. |
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silverojo
Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 139 |
Move it where? I can't find any forum for questions only...? _________________ MY PC's SPECS: * PC: Firelite 1200 D * RAM: 512 MB * CPU: AMD Duron, 892 MHz * HD: Maxtor 2F030J0 * CD-RW: Atapi CD-R/RW CW078D * MONITOR: Compaq 5500 * SOUND CARD: SiS 7018 Wave * ETHERNET: Network Everywhere (NC100 v2) |
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silverojo
Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 139 |
1. HP DeskJet 952C. The other specs for my PC are in my sig file, if any of that should be pertinent info. 2. Yes. I use Puppy 2.0 with an older version of Firefox, with no issues. I don't have Seamonkey installed. In all my years of using Puppy, I've never had issues with the dots until I started using Firefox in Lucid Puppy (5.1). 3. I've never printed a PDF file before, so I tried printing a PDF file I already had saved. The dots appear on that page, too. 4. No, only on the printed page. Now I see that it's happening with ePDFview, as well. But I have no problem printing word processing documents. _________________ MY PC's SPECS: * PC: Firelite 1200 D * RAM: 512 MB * CPU: AMD Duron, 892 MHz * HD: Maxtor 2F030J0 * CD-RW: Atapi CD-R/RW CW078D * MONITOR: Compaq 5500 * SOUND CARD: SiS 7018 Wave * ETHERNET: Network Everywhere (NC100 v2) |
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rcrsn51
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7833 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
This is a mystery. I can only make two other suggestions. 1. Get the Live CD for a newer Puppy, install your printer and run a test. 2. What printer driver are you using? The built-in Gutenprint or HPLIP? The hplip_print-3.12.10a.pet from here supports your DeskJet 952C. |
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silverojo
Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 139 |
Gutenprint? Never heard of it. Puppy 5.1 uses CUPS. I can try HPLIP and see what happens. Thanks! _________________ MY PC's SPECS: * PC: Firelite 1200 D * RAM: 512 MB * CPU: AMD Duron, 892 MHz * HD: Maxtor 2F030J0 * CD-RW: Atapi CD-R/RW CW078D * MONITOR: Compaq 5500 * SOUND CARD: SiS 7018 Wave * ETHERNET: Network Everywhere (NC100 v2) |
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rcrsn51
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7833 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
???? When you installed your printer in CUPS, you would have selected "HP Deskjet 952C - CUPS + Gutenprint v5.2.5". That's the printer driver package that is built into Puppy 5.1. Or did you use something else? |
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silverojo
Joined: 30 Jul 2006 Posts: 139 |
I'm sure you're right, then, because I used what was built-in. 
_________________ MY PC's SPECS: * PC: Firelite 1200 D * RAM: 512 MB * CPU: AMD Duron, 892 MHz * HD: Maxtor 2F030J0 * CD-RW: Atapi CD-R/RW CW078D * MONITOR: Compaq 5500 * SOUND CARD: SiS 7018 Wave * ETHERNET: Network Everywhere (NC100 v2) |
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rcrsn51
Joined: 05 Sep 2006 Posts: 7833 Location: Stratford, Ontario |
Did either of my two suggestions above solve your problem? |
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jhonmarvi
Joined: 03 Dec 2012 Posts: 1 |
Yes. I use Puppy 2.0 with an older version of Firefox, with no issues. I don't have Seamonkey installed. In all my years of using Puppy, I've never had issues with the dots until I started using Firefox in Lucid Puppy 
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