I was not aware of the story not to mention the acronym RMS. Sorry for the ignorance.
Omer Zak wrote:
Hello David, I apologize if you were offended by my sarcasm-sounding message. It was not my intention. My intention was only to laugh about the situation - that someone has a problem with none other than a printer driver!!! Several years after RMS had his printer driver problem.
Anyway, <diltenette>the theory of filters is that before printing, each file type needs to be processed by a filter, which converts it into a language which the printer understands (such as PCL or PostScript). The exact filter used depends upon the original file.
Your problem may have been due to a missing filter. As a temporary workaround, try to convert your file to PostScript (this is usually the common denominator of printer filters in Unix).</diltenette>
On Mon, 25 Oct 2004, David Harel wrote:
I really don't understand your sarcasm. I guess you are making a fool of me but I still didn't get it. Yet I do not know how to fix the problem. Is it a driver issue or merely a setup issue I did not do correctly?
Omer Zak wrote:
Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem.You'll need to found a big organization to have the world get rid of the problem. You have precedents in the form of the FSF and RMS (who had his own printer driver troubles).
(I just could not resist saying this, as the GNU and GPL started from a problem a stubborn guy had with a printer driver. :-) )
David Harel wrote:
Greetings,
I defined a remote printer on an MS W2000 using samba. The printer is an Epson Stylus C43. When I try to print the test page I get on the terminal (I started kprinter manually from a shell) the following error message: kprinter: WARNING: KFilterBase::findFilterByExtension : no filter found for text/plain
Ofcourse the printout is jammed. What do you think is the problem?
My machine is:
HP Omnibook 6000 running gentoo with kernel 2.4.26-gentoo-r9,KDE
3.3.0 and cups 1.1.20-r3
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