OpenOffice.org Writer Print Quality

[IanWaring]

I've been delighted with OpenOffice.org in every way bar one. That is how to get any of my old Word documents printed out in a form i'd dare show to anyone else - the times font 10 point text just gets compressed horizontally and bullets left out. The only way to get a clean copy seems to be an export to PDF and a print from there.

I've had three printers on my system, and they've all behaved the same way. They've been:

* An HP Deskjet 3822
* An HP Deskjet 970Cxi
* A brand new HP Business Inkjet 1100

All configured on CUPS, patched fully up to date and apparently with "native" support for each. I then print using the <hp1100> menu pick (or the equivalent of the others before I bought this one and removed them) with OpenOffice Writer.

Prints beautiful photos but the Writer documents are, eh, not of the quality I would expect. Am I missing something, or failed to make an extra needed step?

Ian W.

[fjleal]

I'm using a HP Deskjet 990 Cxi, locally-connected (usb), with the recommended driver (hpijs), and the results are excellent! I can print 300 or 600 dpi pages, single ou double-sided, draft or normal quality, bw or color, with paper autodetetcting, etc...

Are you using the hpijs driver? See the "Printer/driver notes" on the printer configuration screen ("Edit a print queue"). If you're using the Gimp-print driver, some features are not enabled.

[IanWaring]

Yes, i'm using the hpijs driver, but noticed it was set to default to 300dpi! Change to 600dpi and the output is perfect.

I don't understand why 300dpi would make the result look so bad (some of my older HP printers were 300dpi and yet produced excellent output), but this looks like it's fixed it. Thankyou.