On 06/09/2011 09:47 AM, Murray Strome wrote: > On Wednesday, June 8, 2011 10:04 AM "John Ghormley KJ4UFG"<kj4ufg at > sera.org> wrote: > > > > On Wed, Jun 8, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Ian "Witty" Whitfield<editor at > federalsaints.net> wrote: >> Hi all >> >> Interesting problem here today. I use Scribus 1.4 RC3 on Mint 10 KDE and >> all has been well up to now. >> >> As of today I can no longer print from Scribus. If I try I get a "No Paper" >> error on the printer (A Brother MFC8860DN and with a full paper tray!). I >> don't do much printing from Scribus but there are a couple of things I do >> need to print out each month. >> >> I have tried everything and found out the following - it ONLY happens from >> Scribus!!!! I can do Print Test Page, Print Self Test and printouts from 3 >> or 4 other installed programs but _NOT_ from Scribus!!!??? >> >> Anyone have any ideas? >> >> Thanks >> >> Ian Whitfield. >> >> > Ian, > I have never been able to print directly from my Ubuntu installation. It > appears it would print if I had an Postscript printer but I don't have one. > Therefore, I have to export to a pdf and then print the pdf externally to > Scribus. Let me know if you have been able to print from your Linux distro > in the past. It seems that with the various updates with hplip and cups, I can sometimes have trouble getting a driver that works, ie, doesn't send PS commands to my non-PS printers. With persistence I have usually been able to overcome this. With my recent upgrade to Fedora 15, the odd thing that seems to be the case is that when I have my nonworking printer connected, the printer configuration software can't seem to find a list of alternative printer drivers, yet when the printer is not connected, it can find them and I can make an alternative choice (like CUPS-Gutenprint) that works.
I think it's worth checking the appropriate mail lists and forums for your Linux distro. With enough stubbornness and persistence I can usually get such things figured out. Greg
