LibreOffice for some reason will default my printer to support 8x10 and on the print config page sets the page to 8.5x11. I created a test document in LibreOffice(Please ignore the black text part my ink is very low) You can see in one of the screenschot the driver that is used and can see that it is one provided by HPLIP as none of the built-in Linux ones work. HPLIP defaults my printer to 8x10 and only give my the option for 8.5x11. I completly removed the printer from my computer and restarted.Īdded it back with HPLIP. Please note that some of the bad print quality is most likely due to my printer being low on ink and the ink cartridges are just the free ones that came with the printer as I don’t use the printer much, but I have gone trough a lot of ink printing test pages trying to get see if I could fix the problem and also trying to just get a good printout for the few times that I have needed to print something, and I had to reprint about five times before I got a copy that was good. Below I will post screen shots of the settings and some printouts that I did. I know that other people are able to print from Linux, but I am not having much luck.

I have tried to play with settings from all three and can’t get any improvements. Firefox and LibreOffice both cause text to get cut off or not print correctly. HPLIP has given me the best results so far as no text has gotten cut off, but prints still start at very top of page and leave a big gap at bottom. I have tried printing directly form LibreOffice, converting to PDF and printing from Firefox, and printing the PDF from HPLIP. Whenever I try to print the printouts always start at the top of the page and leave a big gap at the bottom where nothing will print. (Although I do find it strange that back when I used KDE I was able to get to printer to work without HPLIP.) The Printer is an HP Deskjet 4155. (I have HPLIP installed.) HPLIP was the only way I could even get my printer to work at all.

Hp printer test print