RE: [expert] cups not working properly
Cool thanx! :)) On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, b5dave wrote: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ Read the text file. These are LM7.2 rpms are are supposed to work 'out of the box". On 21-Dec-2000 Vic wrote: Cool,. where can I find the url of this site? On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, b5dave wrote: Also Till setup a site with upgraded drivers which won't be part of Mandrake updates as they are not security related. I've had no need to try these however. Dave - 21-Dec-2000 19:01:21 -
Re: [expert] cups not working properly
It seems to be both a printer driver issue AND a printer hardware problem. I built and installed the gimp-print 4.1.0 package and changed my epson driver to that. Now I can print from konqueror and kmail but, again, the printing is partial - even though I have a new black ink cartridge installed, I am getting ONLY color - no black (this may be the hardware - I am going to have to take the printer out of its hole and do a close exam to see if the print heads are clogged). As for the driver - even though I have 720dpi selected as default, the printout is more like 180dpi or 360dpi. The gimp-print driver works MUCH better than the native driver. Another thing is that the default page size keeps going to A4. I keep selecting letter and saving and hitting OK but it insists on defaulting to A4. I changed this as root to letter too - through kups and qtcups. How do I make letter the default that will stick? On Wednesday 20 December 2000 10:21 pm, you wrote: I'm running the stock konqueror from Enlightenment with the kde libs installed all from LM 7.2. (KDE 2.0.x). I have the same upgraded CUPS as you. I can print from Konqueror just fine. If you're printing off the page, your CUPS print driver is probably misconfigured. From the kups utility you can configure the driver with your paper size, resolution etc. You might also try a different driver ... each printer has several choices. Also Till setup a site with upgraded drivers which won't be part of Mandrake updates as they are not security related. I've had no need to try these however. Dave On 21-Dec-2000 Praedor Tempus wrote: I am running KDE 2.1, cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk I thought I had cups setup properly for my Epson Color Stylus 600. I can print out test pages and I just succeeded in printing (sort of) an email from kmail - sort of because it all ran off the top of the page -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain --- praedor
Re: [expert] cups not working properly
It seems to be both a printer driver issue AND a printer hardware problem. I built and installed the gimp-print 4.1.0 package and changed my epson driver to that. Now I can print from konqueror and kmail but, again, the printing is partial - even though I have a new black ink cartridge installed, I am getting ONLY color - no black (this may be the hardware - I am going to I haven't done anything to investigate this but thought I'd pass on what I'm seeing. From Netscape (LM7.2/Cups) I get a "partial" print as well. I do get some black text but it's so feeble that it looks like I've got an empty cartidge in the machine. BUT, I can then print from Word under Win4Lin and get first class output from my HP812. So, I suspect you aren't having a hardware problem but rather how CUPs is handling standard printing. Like you, CUPS is a bit frustrating at first glance. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [expert] cups not working properly
The latest CUPS info by Till, along with discussions is here: http://www.mandrakeforum.com/mysearch.php3?author=till Check out FAQ(7) where there's info about the many KDE printing issues. The A4 thing seems to be a known bug. Note also that there's been a lot of fixes to all the associated CUPS files that will never be in Mandrake updates because they are not security related. The drivers and the ghostscript stuff is all very recent. Till has the stuff here: http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ Although I have a crappy HP deskjet 520 (circa 1993), I tried the GIMP-CUPS driver and it looked like I was out of ink. I had fantastic results with the Foomatic drivers. For your Epson Color Stylus 600 you should try scrolling way down past "Epson Color .." to "Stylus 600" where you'll find several the foomatic drivers. You can setup a printer name for each driver if you want ... one may be better for text, the other for colour pictures. For apps that won't let you choose which (like KDE apps it seems), select one as default. If you can't work things out, I think Till lurks in the general forum at linuxprinting.org. Good luck. Dave. On 21-Dec-2000 Praedor Tempus wrote: It seems to be both a printer driver issue AND a printer hardware problem. I built and installed the gimp-print 4.1.0 package and changed my epson driver to that. Now I can print from konqueror and kmail but, again, the printing is partial - even though I have a new black ink cartridge installed, I am getting ONLY color - no black (this may be the hardware - I am going to have to take the printer out of its hole and do a close exam to see if the print heads are clogged). As for the driver - even though I have 720dpi selected as default, the printout is more like 180dpi or 360dpi. The gimp-print driver works MUCH better than the native driver. Another thing is that the default page size keeps going to A4. I keep selecting letter and saving and hitting OK but it insists on defaulting to A4. I changed this as root to letter too - through kups and qtcups. How do I make letter the default that will stick? On Wednesday 20 December 2000 10:21 pm, you wrote: I'm running the stock konqueror from Enlightenment with the kde libs installed all from LM 7.2. (KDE 2.0.x). I have the same upgraded CUPS as you. I can print from Konqueror just fine. If you're printing off the page, your CUPS print driver is probably misconfigured. From the kups utility you can configure the driver with your paper size, resolution etc. You might also try a different driver ... each printer has several choices. Also Till setup a site with upgraded drivers which won't be part of Mandrake updates as they are not security related. I've had no need to try these however. Dave On 21-Dec-2000 Praedor Tempus wrote: I am running KDE 2.1, cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk I thought I had cups setup properly for my Epson Color Stylus 600. I can print out test pages and I just succeeded in printing (sort of) an email from kmail - sort of because it all ran off the top of the page -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain --- praedor - 21-Dec-2000 13:39:54 -
Re: [expert] cups not working properly
On 2000.12.21 Praedor Tempus wrote: I am running KDE 2.1, cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk I thought I had cups setup properly for my Epson Color Stylus 600. I can print out test pages and I just succeeded in printing (sort of) an email from kmail - sort of because it all ran off the top of the page and didn't print all the message text - all it produces is the KDE graphic and the From and To email addresses. Message body text isn't produced. In spite of this very limited "success" printing, I find it completely impossible to print from konqueror. I tried repeatedly to printout a webpage I was reading but nothing ever comes of it. I checked the cups error_log file and it contains: E [20/Dec/2000:21:20:20 -0700] PID 16396 crashed on signal 11! E [20/Dec/2000:21:20:20 -0700] PID 16397 stopped with status 1! This is produced each time I try to print from konqueror. So, cups isn't working properly. How does one fix this? Every time I attempt to print from konqueror, konqueror freezes up for about 30 or 40 seconds before cups gives up. Don't be su sure it is cups fault (and after reading in the list all that about kde and konqueror, I would vote for konkeror). Check cups apart from any gui program. For example, you can get the example PostScript files that come with ghostscript (in my box they are at /usr/share/ghostscript/5.50/examples) and print them directly with 'lp'. So you check just cups, the way it can handle PS files. If this works, your problem is kde not talking same lang than cups. -- J.A. Magallon $ cd pub mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] $ more beer Linux werewolf 2.2.19-pre2 #3 SMP Mon Dec 18 12:13:19 CET 2000 i686
RE: [expert] cups not working properly
http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ Read the text file. These are LM7.2 rpms are are supposed to work 'out of the box". On 21-Dec-2000 Vic wrote: Cool,. where can I find the url of this site? On Wed, 20 Dec 2000, b5dave wrote: Also Till setup a site with upgraded drivers which won't be part of Mandrake updates as they are not security related. I've had no need to try these however. Dave - 21-Dec-2000 19:01:21 -
[expert] cups not working properly
I am running KDE 2.1, cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk I thought I had cups setup properly for my Epson Color Stylus 600. I can print out test pages and I just succeeded in printing (sort of) an email from kmail - sort of because it all ran off the top of the page and didn't print all the message text - all it produces is the KDE graphic and the From and To email addresses. Message body text isn't produced. In spite of this very limited "success" printing, I find it completely impossible to print from konqueror. I tried repeatedly to printout a webpage I was reading but nothing ever comes of it. I checked the cups error_log file and it contains: E [20/Dec/2000:21:20:20 -0700] PID 16396 crashed on signal 11! E [20/Dec/2000:21:20:20 -0700] PID 16397 stopped with status 1! This is produced each time I try to print from konqueror. So, cups isn't working properly. How does one fix this? Every time I attempt to print from konqueror, konqueror freezes up for about 30 or 40 seconds before cups gives up. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain --- praedor
RE: [expert] cups not working properly
I'm running the stock konqueror from Enlightenment with the kde libs installed all from LM 7.2. (KDE 2.0.x). I have the same upgraded CUPS as you. I can print from Konqueror just fine. If you're printing off the page, your CUPS print driver is probably misconfigured. From the kups utility you can configure the driver with your paper size, resolution etc. You might also try a different driver ... each printer has several choices. Also Till setup a site with upgraded drivers which won't be part of Mandrake updates as they are not security related. I've had no need to try these however. Dave On 21-Dec-2000 Praedor Tempus wrote: I am running KDE 2.1, cups-1.1.4-7.1mdk I thought I had cups setup properly for my Epson Color Stylus 600. I can print out test pages and I just succeeded in printing (sort of) an email from kmail - sort of because it all ran off the top of the page and didn't print all the message text - all it produces is the KDE graphic and the From and To email addresses. Message body text isn't produced. In spite of this very limited "success" printing, I find it completely impossible to print from konqueror. I tried repeatedly to printout a webpage I was reading but nothing ever comes of it. I checked the cups error_log file and it contains: E [20/Dec/2000:21:20:20 -0700] PID 16396 crashed on signal 11! E [20/Dec/2000:21:20:20 -0700] PID 16397 stopped with status 1! This is produced each time I try to print from konqueror. So, cups isn't working properly. How does one fix this? Every time I attempt to print from konqueror, konqueror freezes up for about 30 or 40 seconds before cups gives up. -- Against stupidity, the gods themselves contend in vain --- praedor - 21-Dec-2000 00:21:03 -
