The latest CUPS info by Till, along with discussions is here:
http://www.mandrakeforum.com/mysearch.php3?author=till
Check out FAQ(7) where there's info about the many KDE printing issues.
The A4 thing seems to be a known bug. Note also that there's been a lot of
fixes to all the associated CUPS files that will never be in Mandrake
updates because they are not security related. The drivers and the
ghostscript stuff is all very recent. Till has the stuff here:
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/
Although I have a crappy HP deskjet 520 (circa 1993), I tried the
GIMP-CUPS driver and it looked like I was out of ink. I had fantastic
results with the Foomatic drivers. For your Epson Color Stylus 600 you
should try scrolling way down past "Epson Color ......" to "Stylus 600"
where you'll find several the foomatic drivers. You can setup a printer
name for each driver if you want ... one may be better for text, the other
for colour pictures. For apps that won't let you choose which (like KDE
apps it seems), select one as default.
If you can't work things out, I think Till lurks in the general forum at
linuxprinting.org.
Good luck.
Dave.
On 21-Dec-2000 Praedor Tempus wrote:
> 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
>
>
> --
> Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain
> ---
> praedor
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