On Sunday 27 December 2009 07:41:29 am Gene Heskett wrote:
> On Saturday 26 December 2009, Gene Heskett wrote:
> >Greetings all;
> >
> >I have a B&W Brother HL-2140 printer, that I normally use with a
> > color computer, all setup and working in cups, in addition to
> > several different profiles for an Epson NX515 combo printer that
> > I bought to replace my old Epson C82 when the printhead in it
> > finally expired.
> >
> >Everytime I run gimp to print something, I am reminded that its
> > printer database is totally independent of the cups database.
> > And for some reason, tossing a gimp loaded .jpg at the NX515 only
> > gets me about 80 pages of blank paper. Or a printer jam, this
> > NX515 is a POS compared to the old C82.
> >
> >So my question is: Where do I put the BR2140.ppd that cups uses so
> > that the gutenprint plug-in can also find it? The regular print
> > dialog has no knowledge of this printer, and nowhere near enough
> > controls to be usable.
> >
> >My wife, who needs about 8 pages of a Contata Finale piece printed
> > on regular paper so they'll lay flat on the piano while she plays
> > them, is checking to see if I've got this done yet about every
> > station break on the tv. And my sanity, if I ever had any, is
> > receding. Help!
> >
> >Thanks.
>
> PS, & since no one has touched this one with a single character of
> reply, I found a workaround. goto print, select the Brother from
> the printer listing (after its setup with the new menu that's in
> there someplace), then do a print preview which does display it in
> portrait, click on the full width button on the menubar, then
> click on the print button on the preview screen. It is then
> printed portrait, full sized. Any other method prints it
> landscape, slightly smaller in scale and still with some of the
> bottom clipped off.
>
> I feel like I'm playing connect the dots here folks. The excedrin
> headache number is approaching overflow status...
>
If your running openSUSE Linux you can put the ppd into /etc/cups/ppd/
. I assume other distros also put it there. Also you can up the cups
web interface to set up the printer. The PPD will still wind up in
/etc/cups/ppd. make sure its the right ppd for your printer.
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