[EMAIL PROTECTED] (nate) writes: > hi. > > this is getting frustrating. I recently setup CUPS on my desktop > to spool to a Jetdirect card connected to a HP Laserjet 4000. > > I can print fine if i use lpr, or if i use netscape(4.x) which > calls lpr, or adobe acrobat reader which calls lpr too. everything > comes out fine. I can print select(!) documents from open/star office. > specifically i have printed 2 documents, and they seem to print > reliably, i have printed each several times. > > the rest of the documents go into a black hole. cups records > them being queued and claim they were accepted by the printer, > but monitoring the 'remote printer panel' from jetdirect admin tool > shows no data being recieved for most of the jobs(and nothing > comes out for them). > > I have tried various different settings in staroffice 6.0 and > openoffice 1.0 and staroffice 5.2. I don't know why i can print > some documents(both are word docs), but not others. specifically > i mostly use star/open office to make generic address labels(printed > to normal US Letter paper, not to actual address label sticker things. > so the documents are not complex, just a few lines of text in a large > font(for boxes). i tried saving my documents into word format and > printing and nothing changed. > > at the moment i have worked around it by printing to a file and > using ps2pdf to convert to pdf and printing from adobe acrobat. > > I used to be able to print fine from staroffice 5.2, then i installed > 6.0 and could not print anymore using my existing system, which > was spool to lpd locally, then spool to remote lpd, and it would > then spool through a NT server to the printer. thats when i > switched to cups. > > i changed cups' config so it outputs the printcap file to /etc/printcap, > but that doesn't seem to have helped. the only thing it prints > out is the name of the printer and a colon. i'm really lost.
I had a similar problem with wordperfect 7. I used "lpr -o raw" with cups to solve the problem. Paul -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish... John 3:16 * -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
