It seems to be both a printer driver issue AND a printer hardware problem.
I built and installed the gimp-print 4.1.0 package and changed my epson
driver to that. Now I can print from konqueror and kmail but, again, the
printing is partial - even though I have a new black ink cartridge installed,
I am getting ONLY color - no black (this may be the hardware - I am going to
have to take the printer out of its hole and do a close exam to see if the
print heads are clogged). As for the driver - even though I have 720dpi
selected as default, the printout is more like 180dpi or 360dpi.
The gimp-print driver works MUCH better than the native driver.
Another thing is that the default page size keeps going to A4. I keep
selecting letter and saving and hitting OK but it insists on defaulting to
A4. I changed this as root to letter too - through kups and qtcups.
How do I make letter the default that will stick?
On Wednesday 20 December 2000 10:21 pm, you wrote:
> I'm running the stock konqueror from Enlightenment with the kde libs
> installed all from LM 7.2. (KDE 2.0.x). I have the same upgraded CUPS as
> you. I can print from Konqueror just fine.
>
> If you're printing off the page, your CUPS print driver is probably
> misconfigured. From the kups utility you can configure the driver with
> your paper size, resolution etc. You might also try a different driver ...
> each printer has several choices. Also Till setup a site with upgraded
> drivers which won't be part of Mandrake updates as they are not security
> related. I've had no need to try these however.
>
> Dave
>
> On 21-Dec-2000 Praedor Tempus wrote:
> > I am running KDE 2.1, cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk
> >
> > I thought I had cups setup properly for my Epson Color Stylus 600.
> > I can print out test pages and I just succeeded in printing (sort of) an
> > email from kmail - sort of because it all ran off the top of the page
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praedor
