Do the following:
RTFM on http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/#4th
Make sure that your /etc/cups/cupsd.conf has the line
Printcap /etc/printcap
without an hash mark ("#") in the beginning and restart the daemon with
service cups restart
Now you must have a printer list in the printing dialog of kword.
Unfortunately, one cannot set the printer's options from within kword
because its printing dialog is made for LPD. To set the options, start
"qtcups" or "xpp", change the options as you want to have them and SAVE
them. Then they are used by any program, also by kword, and so you can
print your kword documents in up to "1440x720 dpi, Highest Quality"
(Slow!) and "Adaptive Hybrid", as "Image Type" you should choose what is
best for you (I assume that you have a chosen a "GIMP-Print" driver when
you have set up the printer).
Till
Ed Wilts wrote:
>
> I'm trying to print some kword documents with embedded photographs. When
> printing in kword, the print request menu does not show any printers,
> although the file does print.
>
> The bad news is the documents prints like it's got 8-but color on an Epson
> Stylus Photo 870. The photographs look like crap.
>
> I tried to print to file and then telling qtcups to print at 720dpi, and the
> printout is a wee bit better (since kword defaults through cups at 360dpi)
> but still not with enough color depth.
>
> Can anything be done about this in the short term? Is it something I'm doing
> wrong? If I can't get this resolved in the next day or so, I'll be forced to
> use MS Word to do my Christmas letters, and that ain't right :-(
>
