[newbie] Printing with CUPS
GReetings crew! I have the misfortune of having a Windoz style multi-purpose device (actually, it's not that bad), the HP PSC750XI. It is connected by USB directly to the PC, and was discovered and configured (what seemed to be) correctly during a recent Mdk8.1 installation- but doesn't print to save it's miserable life. I have all the proper permissions, the driver HPIJS is loaded, and running as a service (daemon) and there is not alot I haven't read...the howto, the website (linuxprinting.org) and I still think it's gotta be something that I am doing or not doing... Any ideas what I need to do to get something outa this expensive paperweight? Thanks! Steve Weltman _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Dear All, I finally have my Epson Stylus Color printing now that I added xpp, however the quality is horrrible. The colors are fine but the BW has banding through the letters. I have it configured with the cups+gimp print at adaptive hybrid, 360 dpi, and photograph. I tried 720 but that did not print at all. Does anyone have any ideas for fine tuning this to get some decent BW print? Thanks for your help. Marcia
[newbie]printing with Cups in LM8 again
Dear All, My Epson Stylus color printer does not work at all now. I installed the new cups , I did a test page which printed but had alot of bands with the black white print. I was able to finally use the calibration for Epson but I cannot print anything other than test pages and calibrations pages.When I try to print from any application it just eternally runs through paper not printing at all. When I tried to cancel through the terminal, it will not cancel my jobs. I looked into my files and there is the cups 1.1.7 installed but there is an alternative file with a file for lpc, lp, lpr, etc. I checked the /etc/printcap file and it has lp: and nothing else. Does anyone have any ideas? I had great printing in 7 and 7.2 and do have it with my WIN98 on my laptop. I am really confused about this. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia
[newbie]printing with Cups in LM8 again
Dear All, I am sending this again since I sent it hours ago and it never showed up on the list it seems. My Epson Stylus color printer does not work at all now. I installed the new cups , I did a test page which printed but had alot of bands with the black white print. I was able to finally use the calibration for Epson but I cannot print anything other than test pages and calibrations pages.When I try to print from any application it just eternally runs through paper not printing at all. When I tried to cancel through the terminal, it will not cancel my jobs. I looked into my files and there is the cups 1.1.7 installed but there is an alternative file with a file for lpc, lp, lpr, etc. I checked the /etc/printcap file and it has lp: and nothing else. Does anyone have any ideas? I had great printing in 7 and 7.2 and do have it with my WIN98 on my laptop. I am really confused about this. Thanks for any help. Sincerely, Marcia --- -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
On Monday 21 May 2001 21:10, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Lanman and All, Thank you for the ftp site and suggestions. I did get the new cups. How would I check to see which version of cups is running now? Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config for the printer. Assuming that Mars and Venus (?) are in proper alignment, and even a small piece of good luck, you should be in business. How, exactly do I delete my Epson printer? This was easy in 7.2 but I cannot figure it out in 8. Thank you so much for your great help. Sincerely, Marcia Dear All, I have done all that has been suggested and now my printer is very messed up. It will only print out tons of pages of code now. I have deleted the printer in the Webadmin then added again, downloaded the new cups although I do not know if it has replaced the old one or not. I would like to find out which cups is installed now. How would I find out? I have done all of the configuration and it is worse than ever. Any suggestions would be great. Thanks for your help. Sincerely, Marcia -- Marcia Waller
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Thanks for your input Sean. I have an Epson 777, that I read is essentially the same as a 680, and had used 680, 760 860 drivers in past with success (before the addtion of 777). The 777 and others were real bad, while the 680 were only little better. I had never had to play around with those settings in the past (previous versons), tho now I remember looking through them. I had tried the calibration app listed in the menu, but had no luck. Now with your post (actually the printer icon don't do anything on mine, but it's the same as qtcups in menu - right?), I went thru and upped the dpi from whatever it was (around 72 or something - a strange and surprizing default) up to about 360 (these printers are supposed to be capable of 2880 x 720) and it actually looks better. (I feel silly that I didn't think of trying to find out where to adjust the dpi before). But in asking around here and several ngs, you're the only one who has mentioned it. The print time (pps) still seem excessive, but maybe a little better. I have some more fiddling to do, but at least now I'm hopeful again. Thanks, -s On Tuesday 22 May 2001 08:13 am, you wrote: Well, as expected the 680 output looked like crap, but there weren't the options on offer that there were for the 440, so I had a poke around. Clicking on the desktop printer icon revealed a dialogue that has allowed me to specify the dpi, page size, margins etc., and achieve reasonable output. Sean
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
On Sunday 20 May 2001 15:06, Marcia Waller wrote: On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, s wrote: Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our choices - buy a HP, go back to 7.2, or do without a printer until maybe it's fixed in 8.1. P.S. I asked this question in a couple of newsgroups and never got any answers on how to fix, only confirmation from others that their epsons are doing the same thing. So it's not just us. :-( We are as they, sol. Well, it seems that this could be true. I know that my printer works well because it worked great in 7.2 and I tested it with my Windows 98 on my laptop and it works just fine. Someone mentioned downloading the latest cups. Where may I get that? Also, how do I uninstall the cups that I have and install the new cups? Thank you for all of your suggestions. Marcia Use the Software manager and link out to any of the mirrors for updates. Civileme
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Dear Lanman and All, Thank you for the ftp site and suggestions. I did get the new cups. How would I check to see which version of cups is running now? Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config for the printer. Assuming that Mars and Venus (?) are in proper alignment, and even a small piece of good luck, you should be in business. How, exactly do I delete my Epson printer? This was easy in 7.2 but I cannot figure it out in 8. Thank you so much for your great help. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, s wrote: Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our choices - buy a HP, go back to 7.2, or do without a printer until maybe it's fixed in 8.1. P.S. I asked this question in a couple of newsgroups and never got any answers on how to fix, only confirmation from others that their epsons are doing the same thing. So it's not just us. :-( We are as they, sol. Well, it seems that this could be true. I know that my printer works well because it worked great in 7.2 and I tested it with my Windows 98 on my laptop and it works just fine. Someone mentioned downloading the latest cups. Where may I get that? Also, how do I uninstall the cups that I have and install the new cups? Thank you for all of your suggestions. Marcia
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Marcia; I've read about your problem, and I'd like to offer the following suggestions: 1) Go to the ftp site below, and download ALL the files to a separate folder, then run the software updater in Mandrake control Center. It's a fast site, and usually not busy. ftp://ftp.twoguys.org/pub/linux/distributions/mandrake/updates/8.0/RPMS/ 2) Check to see if your running lpd or Cups. Go to Mandrake Control Center/System/Services. Your NOT looking for cupsd, but rather plain old cups. lpd is great if you want other PC's to be able to print on your PC, but may not be needed by your Epson printer to work locally, or directly on your PC ( assuming that the printer is connected to the PC in question). Try disabling lpd and just run cups. When needed, it should run cupsd . Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config for the printer. Assuming that Mars and Venus (?) are in proper alignment, and even a small piece of good luck, you should be in business. As Always,...Good Luck! On Sunday 20 May 2001 6:06, you wrote: On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, s wrote: Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our choices - buy a HP, go back to 7.2, or do without a printer until maybe it's fixed in 8.1. P.S. I asked this question in a couple of newsgroups and never got any answers on how to fix, only confirmation from others that their epsons are doing the same thing. So it's not just us. :-( We are as they, sol. Well, it seems that this could be true. I know that my printer works well because it worked great in 7.2 and I tested it with my Windows 98 on my laptop and it works just fine. Someone mentioned downloading the latest cups. Where may I get that? Also, how do I uninstall the cups that I have and install the new cups? Thank you for all of your suggestions. Marcia -- Dan LaBine Maximum L.A.N.'s Ltd. Registered Linux User # 190712
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have tried to adjust the resolution, etc, but nothing has helped much. I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia -- Marcia Waller Dear All, I am still having the same problems with the printer. When I try to use calibrate-gimpprint nothing will print out, so I cannot calibrate anything yet. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Marcia
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Marcia, Is that an ink jet printer? Did you have it out of service very long while you upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0? Is there any chance a cartridge has clogged up? Do you have another computer that you can use to test the printer? Just some things to check. Randy Kramer Marcia Waller wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia
Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our choices - buy a HP, go back to 7.2, or do without a printer until maybe it's fixed in 8.1. P.S. I asked this question in a couple of newsgroups and never got any answers on how to fix, only confirmation from others that their epsons are doing the same thing. So it's not just us. :-( We are as they, sol. -s On Friday 18 May 2001 11:05 am, you wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have tried to adjust the resolution, etc, but nothing has helped much. I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia Dear All, I am still having the same problems with the printer. When I try to use calibrate-gimpprint nothing will print out, so I cannot calibrate anything yet. Does anyone have any suggestions? Thanks, Marcia
Re: [newbie] printing with Cups in LM8
Hi Marcia, I had the same problem with my Epson Stylus Color 600 printer producing severely banded text output when I upgraded to LM8 from LM7.2. Moreover, there were also very long and painful pauses during the printing process - which were absent in LM7.2. I also use the CUPS+GIMP driver. Recently though, the problems disappeared and printing works perfectly once again. I'm not sure why exactly, but it's probably due to one of these 2 following things that I'd done since: 1) updated to the recently released 1.1.7 CUPS packages 2) moved the printer from SMB printing via a shared Windows box, to LPR printing via my new SMC Barricade router/print server. Hope this helps. On Saturday 19 May 2001 00:05, Marcia Waller wrote: On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have tried to adjust the resolution, etc, but nothing has helped much. I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia
[newbie]printing with Cups in LM8
Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have tried to adjust the resolution, etc, but nothing has helped much. I get half letters with a band half way through. The color part works fine. Does anyone have any ideas for improvement? Thanks very much. Marcia
[newbie] Printing in Cups
Does anyone have the problem of not being able to change the margins on letter size paper? I have tried changing in inches or centimeters, saving, and then print immediately, and there does not appear to be any change. Does cups only recognize root for these changes? Something don't work. Help is as always appreciated. -- Dennis M. Registered Linux user #180842
Re: [newbie] Printing in Cups
Yes, I have this problem as well. I'm definitely interested in figuring this one out. M On Tuesday 16 January 2001 11:11, you wrote: Does anyone have the problem of not being able to change the margins on letter size paper? I have tried changing in inches or centimeters, saving, and then print immediately, and there does not appear to be any change. Does cups only recognize root for these changes? Something don't work. Help is as always appreciated. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
