On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 01:16:44PM -0800, David Benfell wrote: <snip>
> Okay, it prints now. Inexplicably, the printer thought it was paused. > (My cat must have done it.) > > Now to try this... > > > > In the GIMP, set up the printer as PostScript level 2, and also provide > > > the PPD file. > Okay, I did this, but CUPS never sees print jobs from the Gimp. How is > one to debug something that fails silently? I'm not even getting a clue > what's wrong here. In the printer setup dialog, you also have to specify the print command. I use "lp -s -dclj2550 -oraw". You'll need to adapt that to the name of your printer. BTW, I've got the following variables set in /etc/make.conf, so that the base system will not override the cups binaries after the next buildworld: CUPS_OVERWRITE_BASE=true NO_LPR=true > Next question: How to get OpenOffice to recognize all the printer > attributes? Spadmin doesn't seem to want to deal with PPD files. Since I don't use openoffice, I can't help you here. Roland -- R.F.Smith http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 (KeyID: C321A725)
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