Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Sunday 30 November 2003 08:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2003 10:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> >CG  Can you add some whitespace between the initials and the message text?
> >CG  -- cmg
> >CG
> >CG
> >CG
>
> Is that better?

Yes. Well, at least I think so.
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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 10:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:

>CG  Can you add some whitespace between the initials and the message text?
>CG  -- cmg
>CG
>CG
>CG

Is that better?

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Charlie Mahan]

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Saturday 29 November 2003 4:20 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote:

> CG  Charlie:
> CG  Six of one, half dozen of the other. Either way, I find the spaces make
> it a CG  bit more intelligible. BTW, did you intend to suggest a connection
> between me CG  and a bat?
> CG  -- cmg (who will stick with > for the time being)

No it's just that K-Mail isn't all that bright yet. (-;

I don't know why I haven't changed it back to just the > yet myself, I don't 
want to pretend to be running any proprietary software. No matter how good 
people say it is. 

The name bothers me; "The Bat!"??? For an e-mail client? Yeah, riight.

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 12:01 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote:
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> Saturday 29 November 2003 8:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> > CG  On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> > CG  > On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> > CG  > >H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always thought
> > only "the CG  > > bat" H.users did that.
> > CG  > >H.
> > CG  > >H.Good luck,
> > CG  > >H.HarM
> > CG  >
> > CG  > Ya know - I just thought I'd try it to see how it felt/looked.
> > CG  >
> > CG  > Not good, eh?
> > CG
> > CG  Can you add some whitespace between the initials and the message
> > text? CG  -- cmg
> > CG
> > CG
> > CG
>
> Or is this better?
>
> I have to stop screwin' around and get some work done.
>
> One thing I dislike about Mandrake Linuxtoo many ways to customise
> _everything!_
>
> NOT.
>
> Charlie

Charlie:
Six of one, half dozen of the other. Either way, I find the spaces make it a 
bit more intelligible. BTW, did you intend to suggest a connection between me 
and a bat?
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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Charlie Mahan]

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Saturday 29 November 2003 8:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
> CG  On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> CG  > On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> CG  > >H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always thought only
> "the CG  > > bat" H.users did that.
> CG  > >H.
> CG  > >H.Good luck,
> CG  > >H.HarM
> CG  >
> CG  > Ya know - I just thought I'd try it to see how it felt/looked.
> CG  >
> CG  > Not good, eh?
> CG
> CG  Can you add some whitespace between the initials and the message text?
> CG  -- cmg
> CG
> CG
> CG

Or is this better?

I have to stop screwin' around and get some work done. 

One thing I dislike about Mandrake Linuxtoo many ways to customise 
_everything!_

NOT.

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Charlie Mahan]

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Saturday 29 November 2003 8:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote:
  CG  On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
  CG  > On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
  CG  > >H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always thought only
 "the CG  > > bat" H.users did that.
  CG  > >H.
  CG  > >H.Good luck,
  CG  > >H.HarM
  CG  >
  CG  > Ya know - I just thought I'd try it to see how it felt/looked.
  CG  >
  CG  > Not good, eh?
  CG
  CG  Can you add some whitespace between the initials and the message text?
  CG  -- cmg

Is this OK or too much or too little?

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Carroll Grigsby]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:
> >H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always thought only "the
> > bat" H.users did that.
> >H.
> >H.Good luck,
> >H.HarM
>
> Ya know - I just thought I'd try it to see how it felt/looked.
>
> Not good, eh?

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 9:06 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >The detection is odd, sometimes it detects correctly as usb, and
> > other times you have to tell it that it's wrong, and change it to
> > usb. Once set, though, it seems entirely stable.
> >
> >Anne
>
> Indeed, to my mind the detection software needs re-examining.
> It's "auto" is a bit erratic. Indeed , it's first choice is always,
>
> | dot  | /dev/lp0
> |blank| /dev/usb/lp0  when the device is actually /dev/usb/lp0
>
> so you select ,
>
> |dot| /dev/usb/lp0and still it manages to select
> | /dev/usb/lp1
>
> so then, one tries again doing the job "manually"
>
> it comes up
> /dev/lp0
>
> which you manually retype to /dev/usb/lp0
> but the change does not   "take"   , no matter what you do.
>
> Only way is to remove the device entirely and start again and hope
> next time it does it right.
>
Nah - none of that trying to tell it what's what.  I just kicked it 
and told it to try again, brother, until it got it right 

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote:

>H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always thought only "the
> bat" H.users did that.
>H.
>H.Good luck,
>H.HarM

Ya know - I just thought I'd try it to see how it felt/looked.

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

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On Saturday 29 November 2003 15:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2003 05:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >JRI think it's dot actually every case, sometimes it seems to detect and
> >JRset it up correctly, sometimes it mucks it up.It's hard to replicate the
> >JRcircumstances when it does it right and when it does it wrong. But I
> >JRthink there is a problem with the reliability of the detection and
> >JRsetting up.
> >JR
> >JRFor the moment it's working.Have no reason to think it will not go on
> >JRworking.
> >JR
> >JRJohn
> >JR
> >JR
>
> Glad ya got it going! :-)

Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always thought only "the bat" 
users did that.

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Friday 28 November 2003 05:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:

>JRI think it's dot actually every case, sometimes it seems to detect and
>JRset it up correctly, sometimes it mucks it up.It's hard to replicate the
>JRcircumstances when it does it right and when it does it wrong. But I
>JRthink there is a problem with the reliability of the detection and
>JRsetting up.
>JR
>JRFor the moment it's working.Have no reason to think it will not go on
>JRworking.
>JR
>JRJohn
>JR
>JR

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[John Richard Smith]

Anne Wilson wrote:

The detection is odd, sometimes it detects correctly as usb, and other 
times you have to tell it that it's wrong, and change it to usb.  
Once set, though, it seems entirely stable.

Anne
 

Indeed, to my mind the detection software needs re-examining.
It's "auto" is a bit erratic. Indeed , it's first choice is always,
| dot  | /dev/lp0
|blank| /dev/usb/lp0  when the device is actually /dev/usb/lp0
so you select ,
|dot| /dev/usb/lp0and still it manages to select /dev/usb/lp1
so then, one tries again doing the job "manually"

it comes up
/dev/lp0
which you manually retype to /dev/usb/lp0
but the change does not   "take"   , no matter what you do.
Only way is to remove the device entirely and start again and hope next 
time it does it right.

The conclusion I came to was that "auto detection" doesn't really work 
as such, it's just an outright guess, based on probabilities that most 
local printers are parrallel port printers, and if not that,then usb 
printers. Well OK   , but when the user know's what port it is likely to 
be on, it ought to let you change it back to what you believe is correct 
,  and test. Trouble is it doesn't.

I'm sure I'm not the only one to of noticed this.

John

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 28 Nov 2003 10:32 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> >>On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >>>JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer,
> >>>JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB
> >>>JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53,
> >>>JRmaybe it is in kde  parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on
> >>>JR/dev/usb/lp0
> >>>JRBut thern again "Pup" see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is
> >>>wrong, JRand it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter
> >>>it here takes. JRSo I don't know ?
> >>>JR
> >>>JRJohn
> >>>JR
> >>
> >>Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to
> >>zero, and running printerdrake again?
> >>
> >>I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested
> >>before.
> >
> >John, are you still on 9.1?  I've set up all my printers from MCC
> >printerdrake.  For some reason yours seems to be confused as to
> >whether it is connected by parallel port or usb.  You can modify
> > the settings, including the connection, there in printerdrake. 
> > Don't forget, though, that unless you back out gracefully your
> > changes will not be saved.
> >
> >Anne
>
> No I have to fixkde print in  M9.1 before I can spare the partition
> that was where M9.0 was for M9.2.
>
> But looks like wiping the lot and starting again has done the
> trick, I think M9.1 had a bug in the detection and setup of usb
> printer port. But I guess it's old news now.
>
The detection is odd, sometimes it detects correctly as usb, and other 
times you have to tell it that it's wrong, and change it to usb.  
Once set, though, it seems entirely stable.

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[John Richard Smith]

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
 

On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
   

JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer,
JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB
JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53,
JRmaybe it is in kde  parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on
JR/dev/usb/lp0
JRBut thern again "Pup" see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is
wrong, JRand it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter
it here takes. JRSo I don't know ?
JR
JRJohn
JR
 

Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to
zero, and running printerdrake again?
I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested
before.
   

John, are you still on 9.1?  I've set up all my printers from MCC 
printerdrake.  For some reason yours seems to be confused as to 
whether it is connected by parallel port or usb.  You can modify the 
settings, including the connection, there in printerdrake.  Don't 
forget, though, that unless you back out gracefully your changes will 
not be saved.

Anne
 

 

No I have to fixkde print in  M9.1 before I can spare the partition that 
was where M9.0 was for M9.2.

But looks like wiping the lot and starting again has done the trick, I 
think M9.1 had a bug in the detection and setup of usb printer port. But 
I guess it's old news now.

Thanks anyway

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[John Richard Smith]

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

 

Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to zero, and 
running printerdrake again?

I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested before.

 

 

No I haven't , I didn't think to do this, and so I did.

Turns out there must be a bug somewhere in the setup software, because, 
my usb printer is detected right enough as /dev/usb/lp0  but if you 
don't watch out very carefully indeed it is written up as /dev/usb/lp1 
which is wrong. This is in auto detect . But even in manual it will not 
accept the correct /dev/usb/lp0 without substancial fidling about , but 
eventually I did get it set up as being on /dev/usb/lp0.

I think it's dot actually every case, sometimes it seems to detect and 
set it up correctly, sometimes it mucks it up.It's hard to replicate the 
circumstances when it does it right and when it does it wrong. But I 
think there is a problem with the reliability of the detection and 
setting up.

For the moment it's working.Have no reason to think it will not go on 
working.

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote:
> On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
> >JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer,
> >JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB
> >JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53,
> >JRmaybe it is in kde  parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on
> >JR/dev/usb/lp0
> >JRBut thern again "Pup" see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is
> > wrong, JRand it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter
> > it here takes. JRSo I don't know ?
> >JR
> >JRJohn
> >JR
>
> Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to
> zero, and running printerdrake again?
>
> I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested
> before.

John, are you still on 9.1?  I've set up all my printers from MCC 
printerdrake.  For some reason yours seems to be confused as to 
whether it is connected by parallel port or usb.  You can modify the 
settings, including the connection, there in printerdrake.  Don't 
forget, though, that unless you back out gracefully your changes will 
not be saved.

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

>JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer,
>JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB
>JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53,
>JRmaybe it is in kde  parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on
>JR/dev/usb/lp0
>JRBut thern again "Pup" see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is wrong,
>JRand it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter it here takes.
>JRSo I don't know ?
>JR
>JRJohn
>JR

Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to zero, and 
running printerdrake again?

I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested before.

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[John Richard Smith]

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

I just changed to su, then cd'ed into /var/spool and did a:

mkdir cups

Well I certainly have a /var/spool/cups so that cannot be my problem.

As far as Webmin goes, I just used it to retrace my steps thru the printer 
process, making sure all was well. I never tried to print anything after 
creating /var/spool/cups, it might have worked just fine from that point on. 
It was what was mentioned in /var/log/cups/error_log.
 

I see what you mean, but, /var/log/cups/error_log, seems to be a
log of
each individual print job.
Unfortunately for me my failed kde  print jobs don't even show up in
here, so it doesn't really help me much, excepting to say that
whatever
is wrong, it is likely to be before the main spooling opperations.
I suspect the problem is something to do with kde's own pre-spool
final
setup mechanism. All that stuff about page select, driver settings ,
margins,resolutions,  and I note kde has some sort of filter thingy
doing something I know not what. If you go the KDE CC
-peripherals-printers-instances-settings-filters there is something
there, and I get pop-up messages like this,
The filter chain is wrong. The output format of at least one filter is
not supported by its follower. See Filters tab for more information.
But it doesn't say anything that might help me understand what if
anything the problem is.
Then again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer,
kde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB
printe~1-Lexmark Z53,
maybe it is in kde  parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on
/dev/usb/lp0
But thern again "Pup" see's my printer as /dev/lp0 which is wrong,
and it should be /dev/usb/lp0 but nothing I do to alter it here takes.
So I don't know ?
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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Friday 28 November 2003 02:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

>JRSo what procedure did you follow to create  /var/spool/cups
>JRand ,
>JRwhat's webmin got to do with it I wonder ?
>JR
>JRJohn
>JR

I just changed to su, then cd'ed into /var/spool and did a:

mkdir cups

As far as Webmin goes, I just used it to retrace my steps thru the printer 
process, making sure all was well. I never tried to print anything after 
creating /var/spool/cups, it might have worked just fine from that point on. 
It was what was mentioned in /var/log/cups/error_log.

(where I should have looked -1st!-, thanks to James S. for reminding me). :-)

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[John Richard Smith]

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

 

Thanks for the reply John - turned out that /var/spool/cups did not exist - I 
created that file, then reran/modify from Webmin, and all was well. :-)

 

So what procedure did you follow to create  /var/spool/cups
and ,
what's webmin got to do with it I wonder ?
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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 05:24 pm, Margot wrote:

>MaLogged in as root, went to MCC. Deleted the printer, then automatically
>Madetected printer to get it back again, reset it as default, then
>Mareconfigured CUPS. Printer now works. I have no idea why it stopped
>Maworking, or why it now works again. Maybe this would work for you?
>Ma
>MaMargot
>Ma
>Ma
>Ma

Well, it did - after I created /var/spool/cups, which was missing. Thanks!

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Ronald J. Hall]

On Thursday 27 November 2003 04:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote:

>JRI'm  not being very specific here, but maybe this is a starting point,
>JRsince it's necessary to isolate the various aspects of a complicated
>JRprinter setup in linux, and having isolated the various aspects, attempt
>JRto solve them.
>JR
>JR
>JR
>JRJohn
>JR

Thanks for the reply John - turned out that /var/spool/cups did not exist - I 
created that file, then reran/modify from Webmin, and all was well. :-)

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

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Ronald J. Hall wrote:
(repost from the expert list - sorry for duping!)

I've got an Epson C62 Stylus, via USB that has worked great with v9.1 but now 
with my 9.2 install, nada...

The KDE and Mandrake control centers find it, identify it, set it up with Cups 
but whenever I actually try to print, via drag 'n drop onto the printer icon 
or from Kwite, Mozilla, xpp, whatever...I get this:

A print error occured. Error message received from system:

cupsdoprint -P 'Printer' -J 'signature1a.txt' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'darklord' 
-o ' copies=1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies' 
'/home/darklord/Documents/Signatures/signature1a.txt' : execution failed with 
message:
server-error-service-unavailable 

I've never gotten this error before - any help is appreciated! :-(

I also accessed the printer thru the Webmin tool, it finds it, identifies it 
correctly, and says its "ide - accepting jobs"

Thanks

I have an Epson C42UX. Last weekend, with a little help from my friends 
on the Mandrake OT list (well, actually a lot of help!) I finally got 
the sound working on 9.2. Unfortunately, as soon as the sound started 
working, the printer stopped! I didn't get any error messages, docs were 
being queued as normal, but nothing happened. I fiddled with various 
configurations, but nothing worked. This evening, I managed to fix it...

Logged in as root, went to MCC. Deleted the printer, then automatically 
detected printer to get it back again, reset it as default, then 
reconfigured CUPS. Printer now works. I have no idea why it stopped 
working, or why it now works again. Maybe this would work for you?

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[John Richard Smith]

Ronald J. Hall wrote:

I've got an Epson C62 Stylus, via USB that has worked great with v9.1 but now 
with my 9.2 install, nada...

A print error occured. Error message received from system:

cupsdoprint -P 'Printer' -J 'signature1a.txt' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'darklord' 
-o ' copies=1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies' 
'/home/darklord/Documents/Signatures/signature1a.txt' : execution failed with 
message:
server-error-service-unavailable 



Thanks
 

Well I don't know if it's the same problem but my Z53 prints everythere 
in M9.1 but with the exception of KDE which ends up with a similar sort 
of error message. In your case I think the message suggests some sort of 
printer communication problem, mine suggests some sort of file type 
problem, but in both cases I don't think that the actual message is 
really saying anything much, other than it's an error message, better 
look into it.

One simple first step might be to just take some .ps file (post script) 
any one will do, and open a terminal and do something like,
lpr .ps and see if anything actually prints off,
if it does it suggests that your printer is connected OK and that the 
problem is either in the app that created the print job, or in some 
aspect of spooling or pre spooling(kde for instance has build some sort 
of pre-spooling setup and recently made some alterations, which doesn't 
seem to work well, at least for me) but I  note noone else seems to 
reporting the same problem.

If on the otherhand you get nothing with
lpr .ps
it suggests to me that maybe you have either a problem with your printer 
or the way the OS recognises and impliments it's connection. If this is 
the case I would check ink levels and such like first off , and if they 
seem Ok, then I think I would delete each entry and rebuild the driver 
setup again in something like kde CC, or MCC.

I'm  not being very specific here, but maybe this is a starting point, 
since it's necessary to isolate the various aspects of a complicated 
printer setup in linux, and having isolated the various aspects, attempt 
to solve them.



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[newbie] Printer problems

[Ronald J. Hall]

(repost from the expert list - sorry for duping!)

I've got an Epson C62 Stylus, via USB that has worked great with v9.1 but now 
with my 9.2 install, nada...

The KDE and Mandrake control centers find it, identify it, set it up with Cups 
but whenever I actually try to print, via drag 'n drop onto the printer icon 
or from Kwite, Mozilla, xpp, whatever...I get this:

A print error occured. Error message received from system:

cupsdoprint -P 'Printer' -J 'signature1a.txt' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'darklord' 
-o ' copies=1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies' 
'/home/darklord/Documents/Signatures/signature1a.txt' : execution failed with 
message:
server-error-service-unavailable 

I've never gotten this error before - any help is appreciated! :-(

I also accessed the printer thru the Webmin tool, it finds it, identifies it 
correctly, and says its "ide - accepting jobs"

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[newbie] Printer Problems , M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[John Richard Smith]

I have lexmark printer working in M9.0 with the
lexmarkz53-1.0-9.i386.rpm driver.

The colour balance is a bit off, too blueish.
I cannot see how to adjust that.

I also have misalignment between the
3 primary colours almost certainly due
to printhead adjustment being out.
I keep trying to use lexmarks own
head alignment programme but it does
give me long enough to assess
the printout before being timed
out and returned to the beginning,
so I never sucessfully complete it.
A bit daft really.

Anyway I quite sure now the 3 ghostscript drivers
are plain flat broken. It's beyond me to fix.

It's down to the driver craftsmen to fix.

I think we need a fresh new ghostscript download
with the fixes.

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[John Richard Smith]

Joseph Braddock wrote:


I'm am almost positive that it is the driver. While I thought the test
page was printing normally, I noticed that the colors were off from what
was indicated (particularly red was green and vice versa).  This also
caused the Mandrake Linux at the bottom of the page to be purple. I
downloaded and installed the driver from the Lexmark site and the colors
are correct.  

Unfortunately, I have not been successful in getting Gimp to print with
this driver.  I looked at www.linuxprinting.org and noticed that there
are problems mentioned with the gimp drivers for the versions that ship
with 9.0.  I ran Mandrake Update and saw that there were new cups and
drivers, so I downloaded and installed them, but they didn't fix the
problem.  

Gimp-print 4.2.4RC1 (the updated version is 4.2.3) is on their site.  It
is supposed to fix the red/green problem with a different Lexmark
printer, so I'm hoping it will the Z53, too.  Currently, it is only
available in source and I haven't had a chance to compile it. 

Well, that's what I've found out so far.

Joe

 


Well I have got lexmarkz53-1.0-9.i386.rpm to work with
kde. I would not say the colour balance is brilliant but
it's the first time that I've seen the lexmark driver
work with Mandrake for some time. I think
the problem was that I could not run the alignment
programme during install , but will do so.

Not out the woods yet , but progress.


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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

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Anne Wilson wrote:


On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 9:22 am, you wrote:

 

but the fact of the matter is that

yellow  is  in segment   forY   yellow
blue -"  - M  magenta
red  _   "   _C  cyan
mauve _   "   _B   blue
red  _   "   _G   green
green  _   "   _ R   red


   


That's odd.  If Y is correct I would have expected Blue to be correct also, 
because they are one pair for colour correction.  Cyan and red are paired, 
and it looks as though you have the slider here set entirely to the red side.  
I've forgotten what you said about colour correction, but if you could change 
this I would do.  The third pair is magenta and green.  This may need pushing 
towards the green end as well.

Don't know whether this helps, John, but it's worth a try.

Anne

 


 

I've spent days fidling with the colour balances, it just doesn't work.
There seems to be a glitch with the driver, or possibly the spooling.
I vie between them.

but anyway I appreciate your thoughts. I don't think I am going
to be able to fix this , it needs reporting to the driver creator
team , only I have no idea how to do that. and in the past
I find it difficult to get anyone to listen when you cannot talk their
language and in effect supply the solution.

John

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[John Richard Smith]

Joseph Braddock wrote:


Okay, I tried my printing and guess what, it no longer prints correctly
and I can duplicate your problems.  This is strange as I have printed
numerous photos since installing 9.0 (download).  I do recall doing a
Mandrake Update that did something with cups, gimp and ghostscript.  I
don't know if those affected it or not.  I'm in the process of trying to
figure it out and will let you know what I find.  I am quite sure it is
not a spool problem but probably a driver or cups problem.  I'm in the
process of downloading the drivers from Lexmark's site and will bypass
the cups-gimp driver and see if that's it.  Www.linuxprinting.org states
that the z53 should work perfectly with the z52 driver, so I'll try
that, too.

If you find anything out, let me know and I'll do likewise.  After it's
resolved, maybe we can post it to the list.

Joe


 

Most certainly,

I've tried replacing ghostscript with ghostscript-7.05-30mdk.i586.rpm 
the latest
version. No improvement at all.

I suspect either kde or cups both to my mind are involved in
the spooling  . Take a look at the kde-CC - system - printmanager -
settings - image section,  this is new in it's current position as part of
kde, M8.2 did not have this programme here. The only doubt I'm having
in regard to this theory is, if this is right, then why on earth isn't
everone having this problem, so by that reasoning it points to the
drivers  itself and there is a new driver called
Lexmark Z53(or Z52),Foomatic+gimp-print-ijs added to
the existing 2 ghostscript drivers of CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2,
and Foomatic+gimp-print, so obviously there have been
changes with our drivers, no bad thing initself as there were
a few glitches to my certain knowledge, but I believe what ever
is causing the problem is due to a "crossed wire" in the colour
management, in that all red sections of the picture are
coming out blue , and all blue sections of the picture
are coming out red, hense the wobbly image.
I'm pretty certain of that now, just do yourself
a test page and note the piechart colour wheel
actual colours against the testpage demo on screen.
They are all screwed up.

The Z52 and Z53 are practically the same machine, there
isn't much difference, I have both and they work on either
set of drivers just as well normally.

Now, in regards to the Lexmark's own driver , hitherto
I have only got it going once. It works very well when
it does and everything is there including lexmark
printer maintenance, however just downloading the
rpm driver and installing it and then going to MCC
printer control center and choosing that driver does
not make it work , there is additional configuration
which I once got right and was something to do with
symlinking the spooling together , lpq, lpq-cups, lpqr-foomatic,
lpr-kprinter,  lprm, lprm-cups, lprm-foomatic, and
some more I cannot remember, I wish you luck
as far as getting any sense out of Lexmark, they
don't really know how it works either. I believe
they merely paid someone in linux to write them a
linux printer programme , and marketed it as such,
but it does not install and work easily.

Having tried the latest ghostsript drivers, I suppose my
next experiment is to see whether a newer version
of cups, but I'm loathed to mess with cups its
such a complicated programme and takes oodles of
detailed knowledge.

For what it's worth I don't think we stand much chance of
getting the linux stuff to work. All we can do is report
things and hope that someone fixes it for us.

John






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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[Anne Wilson]

On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 9:22 am, you wrote:

> but the fact of the matter is that
>
> yellow  is  in segment   forY   yellow
> blue -"  - M  magenta
> red  _   "   _C  cyan
> mauve _   "   _B   blue
> red  _   "   _G   green
> green  _   "   _ R   red
>
>

That's odd.  If Y is correct I would have expected Blue to be correct also, 
because they are one pair for colour correction.  Cyan and red are paired, 
and it looks as though you have the slider here set entirely to the red side.  
I've forgotten what you said about colour correction, but if you could change 
this I would do.  The third pair is magenta and green.  This may need pushing 
towards the green end as well.

Don't know whether this helps, John, but it's worth a try.

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

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Anne Wilson wrote:


On Saturday 23 Nov 2002 9:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

Dennis Myers wrote:
   

On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:23 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

Joe Braddock wrote:
   

---Original Message---
 

From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   

Sent: 11/22/02 04:45 PM
To: Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53
 


 

No, the colours are all there, printer works fine in M8.2, not M9.0

but I have found out something.

the ghostscript drivers for M8.2 are a different version to M9.0
for instance
M8.2 uses one ghostscript driver, LEXMARK Z52,CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.0
M9.0  LEXMARK
Z53,CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2

so what, I here you say,

well hithertoo I have done testpages for all 3 ghostscript drivers which
appeared ok, the colour wheel was good and the colours were vivid enought
with everything just so, until you take a closer look at the colour wheel
pie chart lettering, I guess I must of been hasty to say the test page
looks fine, because upon closer inspection, whilst:-

yellow  is in pie chart position against  Y   , that's ok
one shade of red  "C ,  I take to mean crimson
yet another shade of red   "G , which surely ought to
mean green
green   is in pie chart position against  R,  which surely ought to mean
red blue is in pie chart position against  M, which I take to mean
mauve purple  is in pie chart position against  B,  which I take to mean
blue

   

I would have guessed Y yellow, C cyan, G green, R red, M magenta, B blue.

Anne


 

I stand corrected,

but the fact of the matter is that

yellow  is  in segment   forY   yellow
blue -"  - M  magenta
red  _   "   _C  cyan
mauve _   "   _B   blue
red  _   "   _G   green
green  _   "   _ R   red


which means the red and the blue primary colours are cross wired
somewhere, either in the driver in which case it is in all three
ghostscript drivers, and across two ghostscript versions, or
as seems more likely it's in the spooling control mechanism.

Now kde have added to their programme,
kde CC - system - printing manager - settings , besides their old tabs
of  general, HP-GL/2,and driver settings , two new tabs for :-

Image : here a little picture is displayed and 4 colour settings
brightness,  100

hue(colour rotation) 0

Saturation   100

Gamma1000

these are all the default

there are also some contols for image position and image size


I'm guessing, but my money is on this software being screwed.

It's not really a new programme it's been around before and
at one time was part of qtcups or kups, which are no longer
completely available and I believe the intergration into kde
in this programme has a glitch in it which has the effect of cross
wired blue and red . That's my current theory. It seems
like a sound one at the moment, but I don't entirely rule
out driver error.


Text

here you set page margins and text format.


John

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[John Richard Smith]

Dennis Myers wrote:


On Saturday 23 November 2002 11:23 am, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

Joe Braddock wrote:
   

---Original Message---
 

From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

   

Sent: 11/22/02 04:45 PM
To: Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

 

I guess so.
I've been conducting a little experiment,
this is with Z53 foomatic+gimp-print driver(it's probably the >better of
the two ghostscript
drivers) now I've taken the standard colour settings :-
yellow 1.000
contrast  1.000
magenta 1.000
stp gamma 1.600
stp brightness 1.000
cyan   1.000 result lacking red.

Each in turn I  increased first yellow, then magenta, and then >cyan
to the maximum setting of 4.000 each while putting back the
previous to 1.000

in each and every case the only change is an increase of BLUE





red is noticeable in it's absence and yellow is unchanged.





Something is screwed, is it the install or a faulty driver,
I suppose I have to reinstall, but not looking forward to
doing that as printer driver and spooling software installs
is not my idea of fun.It might be quicker to do an entire
OS install.





However as you say maybe there is an updated driver.






I don't know whether Joe Braddock of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
might be willing to test his z53 with the same driver and >settings
and report to me , the cost is 3 sheets of wasted paper and ink.





John
   

I won't be able to until tonight (Saturday), but I'll be glad to test it. 
As I said in another post, though, I've been printing everything from
plain black text to full color photos and I haven't had a problem with
it.

Joeb

p.s. One last question.  When you did your dual install of 8.2 and 9.0,
are you sharing any partitions between the two (i.e. home or var)?
 

The only partitions I share are the /boot partition, nothing else.

Probably I ought to create a shared /home but I don't , as on the whole
I don't find it much trouble to copy across anything I need which isn't all
that much. Just things like cddb , addressboot, bookmarks etc.

John
   

I had the same problem once and it was cause the color cartridge was out of 
one of the colors, can't recall which.  Time to replace or refill?
 

No, the colours are all there, printer works fine in M8.2, not M9.0

but I have found out something.

the ghostscript drivers for M8.2 are a different version to M9.0
for instance
M8.2 uses one ghostscript driver, LEXMARK Z52,CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.0
M9.0  LEXMARK 
Z53,CUPS+GIMP-print v4.2.2

so what, I here you say,

well hithertoo I have done testpages for all 3 ghostscript drivers which
appeared ok, the colour wheel was good and the colours were vivid enought
with everything just so, until you take a closer look at the colour wheel
pie chart lettering, I guess I must of been hasty to say the test page
looks fine, because upon closer inspection, whilst:-

yellow  is in pie chart position against  Y   , that's ok
one shade of red  "C ,  I take to mean crimson
yet another shade of red   "G , which surely ought to 
mean green
green   is in pie chart position against  R,  which surely ought to mean red
blue is in pie chart position against  M, which I take to mean mauve
purple  is in pie chart position against  B,  which I take to mean blue

Does this mean drivers are screwed, or is it in the spooling
that is the question ?

John

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[John Richard Smith]

Joe Braddock wrote:


---Original Message---
From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 11/22/02 04:45 PM
To: Spencer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

 



I guess so.
I've been conducting a little experiment,
this is with Z53 foomatic+gimp-print driver(it's probably the >better of 
the two ghostscript
drivers) now I've taken the standard colour settings :-
yellow 1.000
contrast  1.000
magenta 1.000
stp gamma 1.600
stp brightness 1.000
cyan   1.000 result lacking red.

Each in turn I  increased first yellow, then magenta, and then >cyan
to the maximum setting of 4.000 each while putting back the
previous to 1.000

in each and every case the only change is an increase of BLUE
   


 

red is noticeable in it's absence and yellow is unchanged.
   


 

Something is screwed, is it the install or a faulty driver,
I suppose I have to reinstall, but not looking forward to
doing that as printer driver and spooling software installs
is not my idea of fun.It might be quicker to do an entire
OS install.
   


 

However as you say maybe there is an updated driver.
   



 

I don't know whether Joe Braddock of [EMAIL PROTECTED]
might be willing to test his z53 with the same driver and >settings
and report to me , the cost is 3 sheets of wasted paper and ink.
   


 

John
   


I won't be able to until tonight (Saturday), but I'll be glad to test it.  As I said in another post, though, I've been printing everything from plain black text to full color photos and I haven't had a problem with it.

Joeb

p.s. One last question.  When you did your dual install of 8.2 and 9.0, are you sharing any partitions between the two (i.e. home or var)?



 

The only partitions I share are the /boot partition, nothing else.

Probably I ought to create a shared /home but I don't , as on the whole
I don't find it much trouble to copy across anything I need which isn't all
that much. Just things like cddb , addressboot, bookmarks etc.

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[John Richard Smith]

Joe Braddock wrote:


In case it is the driver, have you tried downloading new ones from Lexmark's site?  Also, I think the Z53 drivers are tied to GhostScript.  Have you looked into a problem with that?  I ask these questions, because I am printing from 9.0 to a Z53 flawlessly (text, color, and photographs).  I'm am using the stock drivers (z53 and ghostscript and cups) that came with 9.0, well, I might have updated the ghostscript through Mandrake Update (I can't remember if it was 8.2 or 9.0 and I'm not at that computer right now).

Anyway, you could always try (I know, for yet another time), to uninstall cups, uninstall the drivers, delete the print spool and configuration directories and start it over from scratch.

Joeb

 

yes,  the 3 drivers in ghostscript are:-

CUPS+Gimp+print v4.2.2
Foomatic+Gimp-print
Foomatic+Gimp-print-ijs  (this is new to M9.0, never had it before)

in addition to Lexmark's own driver,
Foomatic+Lexmarkinkjet, which I cannot get to work at all.
Ive forgotten how to do the post install config, seem
to remember there were complicated symlinks to do.

Since all three ghostscript produce satifsfactory test pages
I don't really suspect the drivers as such.
They are all under CUPS.When you "test  Page" you are
instructing directly , very little spooling involved,
it's a direct call between driver and printer, or
that is how I understand it.


Now recently kde have been intergrating more of the spooling
software into kde CC , and before these days , spooling was
largely  qtCups and worked well.I suspect
that the intergration is not going smoothly.

However before I start removing and installing things,
may I ask of you, is your install the download M9.0
version or are you using powerpack. I may have a duff
download, though all three iso files passed the md5sum test.
Also, I may have a an error in my cd write, though I take
particular care to do a slow 4x write burn. 

Also when you
configure your spooling apps do you call on the
command line #gtcups or do you use like me the
kde CC -system-print manager- instances - settings  - driver settings

I would just like to eliminate possibilities before I
start removing and reinstalling, thats all.

John




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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:

> Anyway just in case you think it's the cartridge let me assure you
> reverting back to M8.2( one of the advantages of dual booting) and putting
> the same files though a print cycle produces perfect output. Seems
> to suggest someone has changed something and now it don't work right.
> No problems with black and white though.

I suppose it's difficult to be certain that every printer is properly 
supported.  No-one here has admitted to having the same model, so there's not 
much progress, I'm afraid.

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[John Richard Smith]

Joe Braddock wrote:


---Original Message---
From: John Richard Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: 11/22/02 11:47 AM
To: NEWBIE 1 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

 

I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer 
   

driver/spooling
in M9.0 as me  but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and 
nothing I do to
correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation and brightness
makes any difference .

Since M8.0 my Z52 's and Z53 all ran on a choice of 2 ghostscript and one
generic driver all of which worked right up to M8.2. The generic drive
was hard to set up,and I gave up on it but the two ghostscript
drivers worked , one was better at low resolution dpi setting
and the other was better with higher resolution, dpi 600 and
above.

Now nothing works in colour. I've spent hours trying to correct the
situation , wasted an entire cartridge , enless paper, but I cannot
correct it. I think the problem is not in the driver as such, and
in any case the pictures display well enough on screen so
the files are not currepted. It seems to be in the spooling
something overrides and currupts any corrections to
colour ba;lance, hue, saturation and brightness, the result
is awful and quite useless.

I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it.Whatever
is wrong is in the software and uncorrectable.

I just wondered whether anyone else has had the same problem.

John

 

I'm not going to be much help, but I'm using a Z53 with Mandrake Linux 
9.0 and don't have any of problems you mention. Have you installed or 
updated anything that might affect CUPS or GIMP or the Z53 drivers? Joeb

Well that is encouraging , seems like there is hope then.

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[John Richard Smith]

Anne Wilson wrote:


On Friday 22 Nov 2002 5:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
 

I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer
driver/spooling
in M9.0 as me  but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and
nothing I do to
correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation and brightness
makes any difference .

Since M8.0 my Z52 's and Z53 all ran on a choice of 2 ghostscript and one
generic driver all of which worked right up to M8.2. The generic drive
was hard to set up,and I gave up on it but the two ghostscript
drivers worked , one was better at low resolution dpi setting
and the other was better with higher resolution, dpi 600 and
above.

Now nothing works in colour. I've spent hours trying to correct the
situation , wasted an entire cartridge , enless paper, but I cannot
correct it. I think the problem is not in the driver as such, and
in any case the pictures display well enough on screen so
the files are not currepted. It seems to be in the spooling
something overrides and currupts any corrections to
colour ba;lance, hue, saturation and brightness, the result
is awful and quite useless.

I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it.Whatever
is wrong is in the software and uncorrectable.

I just wondered whether anyone else has had the same problem.

John
   


John - have you tried setting up a new printer from MCC, forcing MCC to 
identify the printer?  It seems to do a much better job at find the right 
driver than you can do by hand.

I have one printer set up on four different configurations or different jobs - 
and all of them work fine.

Anne

 


 


I think the problem is more complicated than just mere tinkering with 
the choice
of driver. As a matter of fact the test pages are quite good though a little
pale in colour. No, the problem is with whatever really controls the
spooling. I've been to kde -system -print manager to  tweek the controlls,
ever so many times. I've used MCC hardware - printer to remove , add and 
generally
tried every available driver many times , I've wasted days on this now.
As far as adjusting colour is concerned it's not difficult to see, that 
of the
3 primary colours, it's red that is missing, so you go to adjust the magenta
levels , but doubling and trebling the level makes marginal difference. I
don't think whatever is really controlling the colour balance has
been set right. Maybe a complete new install is called for. John

Anyway just in case you think it's the cartridge let me assure you reverting
back to M8.2( one of the advantages of dual booting) and putting
the same files though a print cycle produces perfect output. Seems
to suggest someone has changed something and now it don't work right.
No problems with black and white though.



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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 22 Nov 2002 5:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote:
> I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer
> driver/spooling
> in M9.0 as me  but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and
> nothing I do to
> correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation and brightness
> makes any difference .
>
> Since M8.0 my Z52 's and Z53 all ran on a choice of 2 ghostscript and one
> generic driver all of which worked right up to M8.2. The generic drive
> was hard to set up,and I gave up on it but the two ghostscript
> drivers worked , one was better at low resolution dpi setting
> and the other was better with higher resolution, dpi 600 and
> above.
>
> Now nothing works in colour. I've spent hours trying to correct the
> situation , wasted an entire cartridge , enless paper, but I cannot
> correct it. I think the problem is not in the driver as such, and
> in any case the pictures display well enough on screen so
> the files are not currepted. It seems to be in the spooling
> something overrides and currupts any corrections to
> colour ba;lance, hue, saturation and brightness, the result
> is awful and quite useless.
>
> I don't think there is anything I can do to fix it.Whatever
> is wrong is in the software and uncorrectable.
>
> I just wondered whether anyone else has had the same problem.
>
> John

John - have you tried setting up a new printer from MCC, forcing MCC to 
identify the printer?  It seems to do a much better job at find the right 
driver than you can do by hand.

I have one printer set up on four different configurations or different jobs - 
and all of them work fine.

Anne


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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Walter Logeman]

Rich, 
 On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 04:36, in Re: [newbie] Printer Problems, you 
wrote: 


> Never mind. :) I did a little more research and found the CUPS
> administrative tool.  CUPS required that I log on as root before
> it would let me delete the job.  Maybe that was the problem with
> the Print Job Admin tool, I wasn't logged in as root.

I have had one that CUPS would not do either.  In the end I learnt 
a lot about Linux:

In the command line use ps -ax to see all the processes. I then 
learn to pipe those to grep to find the processess related to the 
printer eg:

ps -ax | grep l

or 
ps -ax | grep parallel

etc.

then use kill  to get rid of it.  The last one that CUPS 
would not do could not be killed that way either!  I used:

kill -s SIGKILL 2345

That did it!

Walter


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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Damian Gatabria]

> Any ideas on how to get rid of the old job?
>
> Also, are there any HP print utilies out there similar to the one that
> HP supplies for Windows systems?
>
> TIA
>
try NOT cancelling from the printer. delete the job while it's printing. it 
will print half a page probably, and then stop.

note: if you don't wanna waste a sheet of paper on this, put an used up one
in the paper feed tray.

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[newbie] Printer Problems

[Rich]

I have an HP 930C printer, but I don't think my problem is related to
the printer.  I believe the problem is software/driver related.

I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and was printing a large job that I didn't want
to finish.  I stopped the printing at the printer and went into the
Print Job Administrator to delete the rest of the file in the spooler,
but it won't delete.  I click on the Remove button and the confirming
dialog box asks if I really want to remove the job from the spooler.  I
click on Yes, but nothing happens, an hour later the job is still there.

Whenever I turn on the printer now, it starts to print the old job, I
have to cancel at the printer and move any new printing jobs to the top
of the list in the Print Job Administrator.

Any ideas on how to get rid of the old job?

Also, are there any HP print utilies out there similar to the one that
HP supplies for Windows systems?

TIA

Rich
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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Rich]

Never mind. :) I did a little more research and found the CUPS
administrative tool.  CUPS required that I log on as root before it
would let me delete the job.  Maybe that was the problem with the Print
Job Admin tool, I wasn't logged in as root.

All is well...

Rich

On Tue, 2002-03-12 at 10:22, Rich wrote:
> I have an HP 930C printer, but I don't think my problem is related to
> the printer.  I believe the problem is software/driver related.
> 
> I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and was printing a large job that I didn't want
> to finish.  I stopped the printing at the printer and went into the
> Print Job Administrator to delete the rest of the file in the spooler,
> but it won't delete.  I click on the Remove button and the confirming
> dialog box asks if I really want to remove the job from the spooler.  I
> click on Yes, but nothing happens, an hour later the job is still there.
> 
> Whenever I turn on the printer now, it starts to print the old job, I
> have to cancel at the printer and move any new printing jobs to the top
> of the list in the Print Job Administrator.
> 
> Any ideas on how to get rid of the old job?
> 
> Also, are there any HP print utilies out there similar to the one that
> HP supplies for Windows systems?
> 
> TIA
> 
> Rich
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> 
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems?

[civileme]

On Wednesday 13 June 2001 15:32, Curtis Matthiesen wrote:
> I am using a Lexmark 3200 with Mandrake 8.0 and when I was
> installing Mandrake, I tried all three drivers for the 3200 to
> no avail.
>
> As when I would, print a test page my printer would become
> jammed and my lights would flash to indicate this.
>
> I also tried the generic print driver without having any of
> the 3200 drivers installed and I got the same problem.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas as why this would be as my printer
> NEVER does this in Windows 98.
>
> Your help is appreciated.
>
> Regards
>
>
>
> Curtis M.

Of course it works in Windows.  Several hundred K of software 
uses your processor to make that beast work like a printer, and 
it is written for windows, by lexmark.  The lexmark 3200 is a 
Winprinter.  The other drivers, the three in Linux, are not done 
by the manufacturer--they are just a reverse engineering 
guesswork which may work fine on some and not on others 
(engineering modifications to hardware are common within the 
same model number).

Civileme

[newbie] Printer Problems?

[Curtis Matthiesen]

I am using a Lexmark 3200 with Mandrake 8.0 and when I was installing 
Mandrake, I tried all three drivers for the 3200 to no avail.

As when I would, print a test page my printer would become jammed and my 
lights would flash to indicate this.

I also tried the generic print driver without having any of the 3200 drivers 
installed and I got the same problem.

Does anyone have any ideas as why this would be as my printer NEVER does 
this in Windows 98.

Your help is appreciated.

Regards



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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[civileme]

Marcia wrote:
> 
> Dear All, Almost everything is working in 7.2 except for printing. I
> thought that Cups would be automatically set up during installation, but
> I guess not. I went to Abiword and KWord to print out something and it
> did not work. How do I set this printer up with Cups and or Kups? I have
> looked at the emails and printer help where I could however I do not
> understand most of what needs to be done. In 7 I just went to Linuxconf
> and set up the printer from there and it certainly worked after that.
> Could someone tell me the easy way to do this, please?
> Thank you. Marcia


Type, as root,

# xpp

civileme

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Tom Brinkman]

On Thursday 16 November 2000 11:20 am, Marcia wrote:
> Dear All, Almost everything is working in 7.2 except for printing. I
> thought that Cups would be automatically set up during installation,
> but I guess not. I went to Abiword and KWord to print out something
> and it did not work. How do I set this printer up with Cups and or
> Kups? I have looked at the emails and printer help where I could
> however I do not understand most of what needs to be done. In 7 I
> just went to Linuxconf and set up the printer from there and it
> certainly worked after that. Could someone tell me the easy way to do
> this, please?
> Thank you. Marcia

   Marcia, see if there's anything here that will help 

   http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html
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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Paul]

>I think you need to log in as root or use 'su'.
>Then you can, from inside X-windows, run the 'kups' command to configure
>your printer. I have not gotten that far yet, but that is what I have
>seen.

Even better: on http://mandrakeuser.org there is a complete article on how
to set it up!
That should get you going.

Good luck,
Paul

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Paul]

On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marcia wrote:

Hello Marcia,

I think you need to log in as root or use 'su'.
Then you can, from inside X-windows, run the 'kups' command to configure
your printer. I have not gotten that far yet, but that is what I have
seen.

Good luck!
Paul

>Dear All, Almost everything is working in 7.2 except for printing. I
>thought that Cups would be automatically set up during installation, but
>I guess not. I went to Abiword and KWord to print out something and it
>did not work. How do I set this printer up with Cups and or Kups? I have
>looked at the emails and printer help where I could however I do not
>understand most of what needs to be done. In 7 I just went to Linuxconf
>and set up the printer from there and it certainly worked after that.
>Could someone tell me the easy way to do this, please?
>Thank you. Marcia
>
>

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Marcia]

Dear All, Almost everything is working in 7.2 except for printing. I
thought that Cups would be automatically set up during installation, but
I guess not. I went to Abiword and KWord to print out something and it
did not work. How do I set this printer up with Cups and or Kups? I have
looked at the emails and printer help where I could however I do not
understand most of what needs to be done. In 7 I just went to Linuxconf
and set up the printer from there and it certainly worked after that.
Could someone tell me the easy way to do this, please?
Thank you. Marcia

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Till Kamppeter]

KEdit has really a bug and does not print at all.

Your lp.ppd is probably broken due to a bug in the database of
linuxprinting.org (the origin of the file). I have fixed this databse
bug, and now the PPD files there are correct.

Download

  
http://www.linuxprinting.org/cups-o-matic.cgi?driver=lq850&printer=63360&.submit=Generate+CUPS+PPD

and replace your /etc/cups/ppd/lp.ppd by this file.

All information which KMail saves should be in ~/.kde/share/apps/kmail
or in ~/,kde/share/config/kmailrc.

   Till


phil wrote:
> 
> My printer is an Epson LQ-570 although I have selected an LQ-850 from the
> list because it allows the printer to print correctly.
> 
> My security level is set to medium.
> 
> I have attached the requested files. Note I have reinstalled 7.2 on a new
> hard disk so these are new files.
> 
> I don't want to overburden you with questions, do you know where Kmail stores
> it's filter rules? I'm trying to avoid recreating them.
>

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Till Kamppeter]

I tried to print with KEdit, too, but it has a bug, I will report it.
You method does not work for me.

   Till


Neville Cobb wrote:
> 
> Same problem here RE the printer. I found that when in say Kedit, select
> print and then when the print screen comes up and you cannot select any
> printer - simply type in the name you gave the printer (in my case I
> called it canon and types in canon) and it seems to print OK.
> 
> Nev
>

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Neville Cobb]

Same problem here RE the printer. I found that when in say Kedit, select
print and then when the print screen comes up and you cannot select any
printer - simply type in the name you gave the printer (in my case I
called it canon and types in canon) and it seems to print OK.

Nev




>Till Kamppeter wrote:
> 
> Can you tell me in which security level you are and can you send me also
> your /etc/cups/printers.conf, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd?
> 
>Till
> 
> phil wrote:
> >
> > The desktop printer doesn't list any printers and dragging a file to the
> > printer icon doesn't print that file.
> >
> > Originally I thought the problem was with the cups server since Kups displays
> > an error message telling me that it cannot connect to the cups server and to
> > check my options.
> >
> > I can print from Koffice, Konqueror and Kmail but not from either of the KDE
> > text editors.
> >
> > Is this a bug or can everyone else print from the KDE text editors?
> >
> > --
> > Regards,
> > Phil
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Till Kamppeter]

Can you tell me in which security level you are and can you send me also
your /etc/cups/printers.conf, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd?

   Till


phil wrote:
> 
> The desktop printer doesn't list any printers and dragging a file to the
> printer icon doesn't print that file.
> 
> Originally I thought the problem was with the cups server since Kups displays
> an error message telling me that it cannot connect to the cups server and to
> check my options.
> 
> I can print from Koffice, Konqueror and Kmail but not from either of the KDE
> text editors.
> 
> Is this a bug or can everyone else print from the KDE text editors?
> 
> --
> Regards,
> Phil
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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Monte Milanuk]

The HP 722c and other printers around that model number are a special
PITA from heck.  HP decided to use a proprietary set of drivers, which,
despite all their talk about linux support, they have yet to release to
the communtiy the details.  Dig around on SourceForge for the pnm2ppa
project, and look thru the archives at Linux Journal and Linux Gazette
on these printers.  There were several _really_ good articles a few
months back on getting these to run under linux -- IIRC, they are up to
600x600 bw, and maybe color as well.  Not quite the 720x720 color you
would want/expect, but pretty good for having to reverse engineer the
drivers from scratch.

Monte

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Charles Oriez]

I used an HP driver on my epson, and it worked.  try epson drivers on your 
HP.  Supposedly they are somewhat interchangable.

At 01:54 PM 9/10/00 -0600, Mark Thurston wrote:
>I tried different drivers, all of the HP drivers, actually, and not one of
>them worked.  The closest one was the 1000 series (PPA) and it sent data to
>the printer, but alas, after about 10 minutes of waiting, nothing happened.
>Is there anything else that I can try?
>
>Mark
>
>- Original Message -
>From: "Larry Marshall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2000 7:13 AM
>Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer problems
>
>
> > John Rye wrote:
> > >
> > > > Mark Thurston wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in
> > > > Linux.  The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the
> >
> > > Look in your printers' manual - somewhere you should find a reference
> > > to earlier HP Deskjets which it is similar to.
> >
> > it's also the case that if you cursor through the list, the printsetup
> > will provide some assistance in that it pops up info about each driver
> > and other printers it may work with.
> >
> > I believe it's also the case that v7.2 is going to switch to cups as
> > its printer facility and I've noticed that in cups there's a really
> > large set of printer drivers for HP.
> >
> > > As a last resort - you can use the lowest common denominator which
> > > in your case will be HP Deskjet - the caveat here is that it will
> > > only print in black (or dark green if you have a colour cartridge)
> >
> > If the 722 is a color printer that uses the standard two-cartridge
> > (black + color) setup, I suspect that either the 560 or 880 driver
> > will work as both work on my 812C.
> >
> > Cheers --- Larry
> >
> >

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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[Larry Marshall]

John Rye wrote:
> 
> > Mark Thurston wrote:
> >
> > I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in
> > Linux.  The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the

> Look in your printers' manual - somewhere you should find a reference
> to earlier HP Deskjets which it is similar to.

it's also the case that if you cursor through the list, the printsetup
will provide some assistance in that it pops up info about each driver
and other printers it may work with.  

I believe it's also the case that v7.2 is going to switch to cups as
its printer facility and I've noticed that in cups there's a really
large set of printer drivers for HP.

> As a last resort - you can use the lowest common denominator which
> in your case will be HP Deskjet - the caveat here is that it will
> only print in black (or dark green if you have a colour cartridge)

If the 722 is a color printer that uses the standard two-cartridge
(black + color) setup, I suspect that either the 560 or 880 driver
will work as both work on my 812C.

Cheers --- Larry

Re: [[newbie] Printer problems]

[Michael Scottaline]

"Mark Thurston" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:


> I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. 
The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the selects a driver,
but the driver does not work properly.  The test page prints, but very very
slowly and it is all jumbled up and unreadable.  I have tried some of the
other drivers, but none of them seem to work either.  Does anyone have any
ideas?
> 
> Mark
=
I'm almost positive that HP's 7xx series printers are ALL winprinters. 
But..., I believe there are some drivers available that will get them to work
somewhat under linux.  Check Freshmeat and do a search there.
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Re: [newbie] Printer problems

[John Rye]

> Mark Thurston wrote:
> 
> I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in
> Linux.  The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the
> selects a driver, but the driver does not work properly.  The test
> page prints, but very very slowly and it is all jumbled up and
> unreadable.  I have tried some of the other drivers, but none of them
> seem to work either.  Does anyone have any ideas?
> 
> Mark

Mark

Recent printers are a pain!!!

Look in your printers' manual - somewhere you should find a reference
to earlier HP Deskjets which it is similar to.

As a last resort - you can use the lowest common denominator which
in your case will be HP Deskjet - the caveat here is that it will
only print in black (or dark green if you have a colour cartridge)

Take a look at HP's site they may well have a fix there too.

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[newbie] Printer problems

[Mark Thurston]

I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get 
it to work in Linux.  The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and 
the selects a driver, but the driver does not work properly.  The test page 
prints, but very very slowly and it is all jumbled up and unreadable.  I 
have tried some of the other drivers, but none of them seem to work 
either.  Does anyone have any ideas?
 
Mark

Re: [newbie] Printer problems (easy)

[M Thompson]

If you selected your printer during the Mandrake installation, then just 
type the following at a command line:

#printtool

Be sure to run the included tests to see if it prints under the various 
methods.


HTH,
Matt


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>Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: [newbie] Printer problems (easy)
>Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:34:20 -0400
>
>Hey guys,
> I have a Brother HL-720 printer and I remembered seeing on one 
>of the
>printer how to documents that it is supported under a ghostscript program 
>or
>something like that. I have no idea what is ghostscript nor do I know how 
>to get
>my printer working. Be gentle, I have no experience with printers under 
>Linux.
>I only JUST managed to get my zip disk to work using a tip that was 
>recently
>posted. Thanks in advance.
>
>
>Lionel a.k.a Salty1
>
>

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[newbie] Printer problems (easy)

[root]

Hey guys,
I have a Brother HL-720 printer and I remembered seeing on one of the
printer how to documents that it is supported under a ghostscript program or
something like that. I have no idea what is ghostscript nor do I know how to get
my printer working. Be gentle, I have no experience with printers under Linux.
I only JUST managed to get my zip disk to work using a tip that was recently
posted. Thanks in advance.


Lionel a.k.a Salty1

Re: [newbie] PRINTER PROBLEMS!!!!

[Joseph S. Gardner]

Sean Armstrong wrote:

> Will someone please tell me how to get this printer icon to work on my KDE
> desktop.  It uses the lpr command and I know your suppose to drag and drop
> the text icon onto it.  But the lpr command doesnt seem to work on my
> computer.  In fact the only way I can print is to open the klpq window and
> drag/drop the text icon onto the open window.  What command does klpq use to
> print? maybe this is the direction I need to go.
> Thanx,
> SA
>
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[newbie] PRINTER PROBLEMS!!!!

[Sean Armstrong]

Will someone please tell me how to get this printer icon to work on my KDE 
desktop.  It uses the lpr command and I know your suppose to drag and drop 
the text icon onto it.  But the lpr command doesnt seem to work on my 
computer.  In fact the only way I can print is to open the klpq window and 
drag/drop the text icon onto the open window.  What command does klpq use to 
print? maybe this is the direction I need to go.
Thanx,
SA


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[newbie] Printer Problems

[Sean Armstrong]

Hello:
This will now be the third time I have posted this question.  I have posted 
helpful replies to other peoples questions on this list and, yet noone has 
helped me on this matter.  So here goes it again:

I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on my computer and have a HP officejet 500 
printer hooked up.  I can print by opening up klpq and drag/dropping the 
text icon into the open window.  This is however, Cumbersome.  I noticed KDE 
has a printer icon for Drag/Drop already setup on the desktop.  This does 
not work for me since I can not get the lpr command that it is linked to to 
work.  Anyone have any suggestions?
Thanx
SA


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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Wilhelm Bertalan]

Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote:
> 
> On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:
> 
> > I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
> > detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
> > existing, the entry looks like:
> >
> > crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   0 May  5  1998 lp0
> > crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   1 May  5  1998 lp1
> > crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   2 May  5  1998 lp2
> 
> The device entries have nothing to do with the actual devices.
> Make sure you've loaded all the kernel modules you need for printing, try
> 
> modprobe parport
> modprobe parport_pc
> modprobe lp
> 
> LLaP
> bero

OK, after doing this and using lsmod I see:

[root@bertalan wb]# lsmod
Module  Size  Used by
parport_probe   3492   2  (uninitialized)
parport_pc  5940   1  (autoclean)
lp  4988   1  (uninitialized)
parport 7316   1  (autoclean) [parport_probe parport_pc
lp]
nfsd  146236   1  (autoclean)
lockd  32712   1  (autoclean) [nfsd]
sunrpc 55812   1  (autoclean) [nfsd lockd]
nls_iso8859-1   2052   1  (autoclean)
nls_cp437   3580   1  (autoclean)
vfat   11196   1  (autoclean)
fat32608   1  (autoclean) [vfat]
opl3   14600   0
sb 36596   0
uart401 6224   0  [sb]
sound  64504   0  [opl3 sb uart401]
soundlow 300   0  [sound]
soundcore   2628   6  [sb sound]
3c59x  19592  
1


and printing still does not work...
so what means "uninitialised" ??
when I try to remove the modules (rmmod) I get a message "device is
busy" or "parport is in use" -- what next ??

Thanks and bye

willy

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[alann]

Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:
> 
> Hallo,
> 
> Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.34 and everything
> seemed to work ok. However, I did not test printing and when I started
> it today, it does not work. After investigating a bit further (with
> printtool) I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
> detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
> existing, the entry looks like:
> 
> crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   0 May  5  1998 lp0
> crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   1 May  5  1998 lp1
> crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   2 May  5  1998
> lp2
> 
> and that has obviously not changed until installation. As I have nothing
> else changed and printing has worked so far, I am a bit lost and any
> help would be appreciated - where to look / what to do ?!
> 
> Thanks and bye,
> 
> willy


Try re-running printtool.
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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Bernhard Rosenkraenzer]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote:

> I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
> detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
> existing, the entry looks like:
> 
> crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   0 May  5  1998 lp0
> crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   1 May  5  1998 lp1
> crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   2 May  5  1998
> lp2  

The device entries have nothing to do with the actual devices.
Make sure you've loaded all the kernel modules you need for printing, try

modprobe parport
modprobe parport_pc
modprobe lp

LLaP
bero

[newbie] Printer Problems

[Wilhelm Bertalan]

Hallo,

Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.34 and everything
seemed to work ok. However, I did not test printing and when I started
it today, it does not work. After investigating a bit further (with
printtool) I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not
detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still
existing, the entry looks like:

crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   0 May  5  1998 lp0
crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   1 May  5  1998 lp1
crw-rw   1 root daemon 6,   2 May  5  1998
lp2  

and that has obviously not changed until installation. As I have nothing
else changed and printing has worked so far, I am a bit lost and any
help would be appreciated - where to look / what to do ?!

Thanks and bye,

willy

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Steve Winston]

I wonder if there is a config file in /etc or better yet, maybe a
HOWTO. go to /usr/doc/HOWTO, and look at the printer HOWTO. I think
there is some stuff in there.
adios, steve
--- mitcoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Steve:
> 
>  Yes I have and it is all setup there ok, it
> says when I try to
> print anything " print unknown " it says something
> along the lines that
> the print port has to be config, and I have no idea
> how to do this at
> all.
> 
> Thank You in Advance
> 
> John Hall
> 
> Steve Winston wrote:
> 
> > Did you go into the select part of the printtool?
> > --- mitcoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello you all:
> > >
> > >  I have a Canon BJC 210 printer,
> using
> > > Mandrake 6.02, when I
> > > try to print anything it says printer unknown,
> port
> > > not config it is
> > > picked up ok on port lpt0 , so how do I config
> the
> > > port as I am a newbie
> > > I have no idea.  If some one would be so kind as
> to
> > > walk me though this.
> > >
> > > Thanks in Advance
> > >
> > > John Hall
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> _
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> http://mail.yahoo.com
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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Steve Winston]

Darn, I don't know how to do that either. Oddly enough, this computer
is just horrible with Windows but it works like a charm with Linux, so
I don't know all that I should.
adios, Steve

--- mitcoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello Steve:
> 
>  Yes I have and it is all setup there ok, it
> says when I try to
> print anything " print unknown " it says something
> along the lines that
> the print port has to be config, and I have no idea
> how to do this at
> all.
> 
> Thank You in Advance
> 
> John Hall
> 
> Steve Winston wrote:
> 
> > Did you go into the select part of the printtool?
> > --- mitcoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > Hello you all:
> > >
> > >  I have a Canon BJC 210 printer,
> using
> > > Mandrake 6.02, when I
> > > try to print anything it says printer unknown,
> port
> > > not config it is
> > > picked up ok on port lpt0 , so how do I config
> the
> > > port as I am a newbie
> > > I have no idea.  If some one would be so kind as
> to
> > > walk me though this.
> > >
> > > Thanks in Advance
> > >
> > > John Hall
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> _
> > Do You Yahoo!?
> > Get your free @yahoo.com address at
> http://mail.yahoo.com
> 
> --
> Mitcoo
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> 
> 
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> 1700 17th Street, Suite 202
> San Francisco, CA  94103
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> -
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> The largest gay and lesbian online community.
> -
> 
> 
> 

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[mitcoo]

Hello Steve:

 Yes I have and it is all setup there ok, it says when I try to
print anything " print unknown " it says something along the lines that
the print port has to be config, and I have no idea how to do this at
all.

Thank You in Advance

John Hall

Steve Winston wrote:

> Did you go into the select part of the printtool?
> --- mitcoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Hello you all:
> >
> >  I have a Canon BJC 210 printer, using
> > Mandrake 6.02, when I
> > try to print anything it says printer unknown, port
> > not config it is
> > picked up ok on port lpt0 , so how do I config the
> > port as I am a newbie
> > I have no idea.  If some one would be so kind as to
> > walk me though this.
> >
> > Thanks in Advance
> >
> > John Hall
> >
> >
>
> _
> Do You Yahoo!?
> Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

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Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

[Steve Winston]

Did you go into the select part of the printtool?
--- mitcoo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hello you all:
> 
>  I have a Canon BJC 210 printer, using
> Mandrake 6.02, when I
> try to print anything it says printer unknown, port
> not config it is
> picked up ok on port lpt0 , so how do I config the
> port as I am a newbie
> I have no idea.  If some one would be so kind as to
> walk me though this.
> 
> Thanks in Advance
> 
> John Hall
> 
> 

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[newbie] Printer Problems

[mitcoo]

Hello you all:

 I have a Canon BJC 210 printer, using Mandrake 6.02, when I
try to print anything it says printer unknown, port not config it is
picked up ok on port lpt0 , so how do I config the port as I am a newbie
I have no idea.  If some one would be so kind as to walk me though this.

Thanks in Advance

John Hall