Comment 1 for bug 693509

Have you also tried a daily live CD (or Alpha 1 live CD) of Natty? I would like to know whether you can still print with Natty. Do not install Natty, as it is still under development.

Can you do the following:

Take your printer's PPD file

/etc/cups/ppd/<printer name>.ppd

of your Maverick box and copy it to the other machines. There assign this PPD file to your print queue, for example with the command:

lpadmin -p <your printer> -P <PPD file from Maverick> -o PageSize=A4

(use "-o PageSize=Letter" if you are in the US or in Canada). Make sure that "hpijs" is installed on your machines (test with "which hpijs") and install the appropriate package if needed. Can you print now?

In general try also different settings for the PrintoutMode and Quality options.

Here some important background info why I am asking this, both for you and for the HPLIP developers at HP:

I have patched the hpijs.drv and the hpcups.drv files (the PPD generators for non-PostScript PPDs in HPLIP) in Maverick and Natty, assuming that on LIDIL printers (the DeskJet 3920 is a LIDIL printer) both the black cartridge and the color cartridge are installed and also assuring that all modes are available in the PPD, the ones for two-cartridge setups and also the ones for only the color cartridge. Before, the PPD files had default settings for color-cartridge-only setups, as some cheaper printer packages were sold with only the color cartridge. Some PPDs even did not supply the two-cartridge modes. With my patch all PPDs default to two-cartridge modes and make one-cartridge modes optional. Here I assume that nowadays the printers are all sold with two cartridges and on older devices the users have already added a black cartridge.

So on Maverick you are most probably printing in a two-cartridge mode, and on all the other distros in a one-cartridge mode. The one-cartridge mode is perhaps not supported any more in a rather new printer like the DeskJet 3920.