Re: Printer help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can try apt-get install printtool and then run it as root. If you have used printtool in Redhat before you will be able to use this, for its the same tool SJ wrote: | Here's the problem. For some reason linux isn't seeing My | Canon 4400 printer. | | We have both parport and parportpc installed. | | 1. What do I need to put in printcap? | 2. Also, isn't there a text or graphical interface for | setting up you printers? (I would have sworn I had seen one | a some point.) | If there is *whimper* what is the command or package | required to start it? | | SJ Straith | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE8/PCtfhdCdg//bEgRApkFAJsF0zV0jNzazcwZCWDaZz3Dz329BQCfbDAD AzcauCO9ydbjgN0EvjVb3Kw= =qpXB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printer help
On Tue, Jun 04, 2002 at 09:43:03AM -0700, SJ wrote: If there is *whimper* what is the command or package required to start it? If you run CUPS instead of LPD, you can use the CUPS web interface to set up all your local and remote printers. It's very nice. Best Regards, Keith -- LPIC-2, MCSE, N+ Got spam? Get spastic http://spastic.sourceforge.net -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printer help
I'M NOT MEMER OF YOUR MAILING LISTS. MY MAIL IS : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] IS ONLY FORWARD FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED]). WHY THIS MAILS COME TO ME? EVERY DAY COME TO ME 200 MAILS FROM YOUR MAILING LISTS. CAN YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT? THANK YOU. - Original Message - From: SJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Debian Mailing list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:43 PM Subject: Printer help Here's the problem. For some reason linux isn't seeing My Canon 4400 printer. We have both parport and parportpc installed. 1. What do I need to put in printcap? 2. Also, isn't there a text or graphical interface for setting up you printers? (I would have sworn I had seen one a some point.) If there is *whimper* what is the command or package required to start it? SJ Straith -- ** ** You can have Freedom or Peace, ** ** Don't EVER count on having both.** ** -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printer help
I'M NOT MEMER OF YOUR MAILING LISTS. MY MAIL IS : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED] IS ONLY FORWARD FROM [EMAIL PROTECTED]). WHY THIS MAILS COME TO ME? EVERY DAY COME TO ME 200 MAILS FROM YOUR MAILING LISTS. CAN YOU DO SOMETHING WITH IT? THANK YOU. - Original Message - From: Quenten Griffith [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: SJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Debian Mailing list debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 6:54 PM Subject: Re: Printer help -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You can try apt-get install printtool and then run it as root. If you have used printtool in Redhat before you will be able to use this, for its the same tool SJ wrote: | Here's the problem. For some reason linux isn't seeing My | Canon 4400 printer. | | We have both parport and parportpc installed. | | 1. What do I need to put in printcap? | 2. Also, isn't there a text or graphical interface for | setting up you printers? (I would have sworn I had seen one | a some point.) | If there is *whimper* what is the command or package | required to start it? | | SJ Straith | -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQE8/PCtfhdCdg//bEgRApkFAJsF0zV0jNzazcwZCWDaZz3Dz329BQCfbDAD AzcauCO9ydbjgN0EvjVb3Kw= =qpXB -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Printer help please!
On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Andrea Vettorello wrote: bernard wrote: For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall (don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was says my sympathetic girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so I stripped everything off and re-installed lprng. I then used apsfilter to configure things, the apsfilter printed a perfect test page but when I used lprnothing! I tried with printtool which printed a test ascii direct to the port but under lpr the printer muttered a bit and then stopped. Not an expert here, but i'm using pdq/xpd (tracking unstable =) with a stylus color 880 and works quite well with the ghostscript stp driver. Another option is to compile a deb from a more recent version of cups sources in testing/unstable. I don't think cups has much by way of dependencies, so this should be straightforward. I use cups on my old SuSE system and really like it. If your printer is a recent postscript printer then cups is the way to go because it can read ppd files, and then your printer will have all the functionality it has under Windows, which is nice. And cups has a really nice front-end called qtcups. However, even if your printer is not postscript, you can still get it to work. There are some nice articles about cups out there, some available off www.linuxprinting.org. I seem to remember mandrakeuser had an article. Try going to google and doing a search for cups printing. When I got my current HP 2100M back around Christmas, I spent several days going through all the available printing software (there is a nice listing with links of linuxprinting.org). Fortunately, I had the time, since I was on vacation. I first tried plain lpr with apsfilter, then I tried lprng, then pdq, and finally tried cups, which I liked so much I threw everything else out and stuck with it. And I made my own rpm for SuSE from the source rpm on the cups web site, since the cups source rpm was a bit of a mess, and seemed by default more designed for Redhat type systems. But you've got Debian (three cheers for Debian) so you won't have those problems. I use potato and this is what I am going to do for my new Debian system. Hope this helps. Faheem.
Re: Printer help please!
bernard wrote: For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall (don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was says my sympathetic girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so I stripped everything off and re-installed lprng. I then used apsfilter to configure things, the apsfilter printed a perfect test page but when I used lprnothing! I tried with printtool which printed a test ascii direct to the port but under lpr the printer muttered a bit and then stopped. lpq -L gives me the following [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpq -L Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: accounting at start at 14:35:56.401 Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 14:35:56.452 Status: printing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:56.468 Status: printing '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' starting OF at 14:35:56.468 Status: printing data file 'dfA779debian', size 42 at 14:35:56.468 Status: IF filter finished at 14:35:57.631 Status: printing done '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:57.631 Status: accounting at end at 14:35:57.631 Status: finished '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.631 Status: subserver pid 5782 exit status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.636 Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' printed at 14:35:57.637 Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 14:35:57.639 I can't see much wrong with the permissions-I'm currently operating root. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/spool/lpd total 24 drwx--2 daemon lp 4096 Jul 2 14:53 lp drwxr-xr-x2 lp lp 4096 Jul 2 11:54 stcolor-a4-ascii-color debian:/home/bernard# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp total 28 -rw---1 daemon lp 1602 Jul 2 14:53 acct -rw---1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 control.lp lrwxrwxrwx1 root lp 35 Jul 2 13:56 filter - /usr/share/printtool//master-filter -rw---1 daemon lp187 Jul 2 13:56 general.cfg -rw---1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 log -rw---1 daemon lp 5 Jul 2 14:53 lp -rw---1 daemon lp346 Jul 2 13:56 postscript.cfg -rw---1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 status -rw---1 daemon lp 2847 Jul 2 14:53 status.lp -rw---1 daemon lp146 Jul 2 13:56 textonly.cfg -rw---1 daemon lp I would be pathetically crawlingly grateful to anybody who could assist. There is absolutely no shortage of additional information-three days worth-if required. Frustrating when none reply, isn't? Not an expert here, but i'm using pdq/xpd (tracking unstable =) with a stylus color 880 and works quite well with the ghostscript stp driver. You don't mention your printer, but i will suggest, as a starting point, www.linuxprinting.org (IIRC). About the permission, try adding your user to the lp group (no need to use root)... Andrea
Re: Printer help please!
On Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 10:37:51AM +0200, Andrea Vettorello wrote: bernard wrote: For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall (don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was says my sympathetic girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so I stripped everything off and re-installed lprng. I then used apsfilter to configure things, the apsfilter printed a perfect test page but when I used lprnothing! I tried with printtool which printed a test ascii direct to the port but under lpr the printer muttered a bit and then stopped. lpq -L gives me the following [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ lpq -L Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: accounting at start at 14:35:56.401 Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 14:35:56.452 Status: printing job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:56.468 Status: printing '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' starting OF at 14:35:56.468 Status: printing data file 'dfA779debian', size 42 at 14:35:56.468 Status: IF filter finished at 14:35:57.631 Status: printing done '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' at 14:35:57.631 Status: accounting at end at 14:35:57.631 Status: finished '[EMAIL PROTECTED]', status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.631 Status: subserver pid 5782 exit status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.636 Status: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' printed at 14:35:57.637 Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 14:35:57.639 I can't see much wrong with the permissions-I'm currently operating root. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ ls -l /var/spool/lpd total 24 drwx--2 daemon lp 4096 Jul 2 14:53 lp drwxr-xr-x2 lp lp 4096 Jul 2 11:54 stcolor-a4-ascii-color debian:/home/bernard# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp total 28 -rw---1 daemon lp 1602 Jul 2 14:53 acct -rw---1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 control.lp lrwxrwxrwx1 root lp 35 Jul 2 13:56 filter - /usr/share/printtool//master-filter -rw---1 daemon lp187 Jul 2 13:56 general.cfg -rw---1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 log -rw---1 daemon lp 5 Jul 2 14:53 lp -rw---1 daemon lp346 Jul 2 13:56 postscript.cfg -rw---1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 status -rw---1 daemon lp 2847 Jul 2 14:53 status.lp -rw---1 daemon lp146 Jul 2 13:56 textonly.cfg -rw---1 daemon lp I would be pathetically crawlingly grateful to anybody who could assist. There is absolutely no shortage of additional information-three days worth-if required. Frustrating when none reply, isn't? Not an expert here, but i'm using pdq/xpd (tracking unstable =) with a stylus color 880 and works quite well with the ghostscript stp driver. You don't mention your printer, but i will suggest, as a starting point, www.linuxprinting.org (IIRC). About the permission, try adding your user to the lp group (no need to use root)... What about the permissions of your entry in /dev/lp0 or whatever you're using? I believe the lprng daemon doesn't use root priviledges and won't work if the permissions are set wrong even if you're logged in as root. I had this problem myself. I could print a test page in apsfilter perfectly, but lprng printing wouldn't work until I changed the permissions of /dev/lp0. -- Brian Nelson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: printer help
On Thu, 5 Aug 1999, Shao Zhang wrote: Just had a quick look of the stylus_color_720dpi-filter. The first couple of lines look like: # PostScript 0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q [SNIP] This is the slink version, while the poster indicated potato. Sometimes this difference doesn't matter, but in this case there have been some important changes, specifically the upp drivers replacing stcolor. now, copy this file to stylus_color_740dpi-filter and change all the 720 values to 740. Then update your printcap to points to this modified filter. Restart lpd by running /etc/init.d/lpd restart or /etc/init.d/lprng restart depends which printing package you got, then it should work.. How is changing the output resolution from 720 dpi to 740 going to solve the problem? The 740 in Epson Stylus Color 740 is a model number, not a dpi rating. On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 05:44:40PM +0200, Jocke wrote: Hi all, I can't get lpr to work properly. I guess I am just unexperienced so some hints and advice would be appreciated. I have a pretty slim potato setup. gs-aladdin lprng magicfilter [[SNIP]] printer EPSON STYLUS color 740 when trying to print a .ps file with lpr some_file.ps I just get lots of form feeds and strange output after a while when trying a ordinary text file nothing happens. The job is in the que for a while but nothing prints. i had this problem i while back with Stylus Color 600, in the end i ended up modifying the stylus_color_###dpi-filter to use @stc600pl.upp instead of @stc2.upp, and @stc600p.upp instead of @stc800p.upp. i don't know the proper filters for a 740; the gs docs indicate that @stc500p.upp (360 dpi), @stc500ph.upp (720 dpi), and stcany.upp (360 dpi) should function, although the gamma correction may be wrong. Read the uniprint section in /usr/doc/gs-aladdin/Devices.htm for more info.
Re: printer help
Just had a quick look of the stylus_color_720dpi-filter.
The first couple of lines look like:
# PostScript
0 %! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER
-dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- -
0 \004%! filter /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER
-dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- -
# PDF
0 %PDFfpipe /usr/bin/gs -sDEVICE=stcolor -r720 -q -dSAFER
-dNOPAUSE -dSpotSize='{2.6 2.4 2.6 2}' -sOutputFile=- $FILE
# TeX DVI
0 \367\002fpipe /usr/bin/dvips -D 720 -R -q -f
now, copy this file to stylus_color_740dpi-filter and change all the 720 values
to 740.
Then update your printcap to points to this modified filter.
Restart lpd by running /etc/init.d/lpd restart or /etc/init.d/lprng restart
depends which printing package
you got, then it should work..
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 05:44:40PM +0200, Jocke wrote:
Hi all,
I can't get lpr to work properly. I guess I am just
unexperienced so some hints and advice would be
appreciated.
I have a pretty slim potato setup.
gs-aladdin
lprng
magicfilter
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printcap file:
lp|epson|EPSON STYLUS color 740:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:\
:sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
printer EPSON STYLUS color 740
when trying to print a .ps file with
lpr some_file.ps I just get lots of form feeds and strange
output after a while
when trying a ordinary text file nothing happens.
The job is in the que for a while but nothing prints.
As root I can print with cat some_file /dev/lp0
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If I do lpc start I get
Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED]: started
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What extra info can I give ?
Would appreciate som input on this.
Best Regards
Joakim Svensson
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