Re: [newbie] Printing to Window$ domain printers using CUPS and Samba
Derek, Thanks for the info .. how would I be able to configure it using DHCP? Thanks! Terry On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:23, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 14 May 2002 1:58 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I'm still having trouble getting printing to work using MDK 8.2 using CUPS and Samba. I think I may have narrowed down the problem though. When I add a SMB shared printer using the wizard in KUPS, I have noticed that CUPS tries to use my laptop's integrated network card (eth0)to send the printing through. I am using a wireless network card (eth1) for my networking. Is there a way I can tell CUPS to use eth1 instead of eth0? Thanks for the help! Terry If you do not use this interface at all have you tried disabling it first in the BIOS and if that is not possible using netconf to disable that adapter? Alternatively if you do need both interfaces then open kups (or KDE Control CentreSystemPrint manager as root) Select 'Configure server' (Which is the second 'spanner' (or 'wrench' depending on which country you live in) from the right.) Select Connection and set the 'broadcast address' to include the interface(s) you wish CUPS messages to go over e.g. 192.167.1.255 That should do the trick derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Terry Sheltra PC Technician/Asst. Network Administrator University of Virginia School of Architecture 434.982.3047 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to Window$ domain printers using CUPS and Samba
Doesn't your DHCP always allocate IP addresses from the same subnet? You only need to put the broadcast address of your subnet into the CUPS configuration. You do not need the IP address of a particular host. So putting 192.168.1.255 in the config will cause all hosts on the 192.168.1 subnet to respond. Also on the same page you can configure named hosts to poll. You could just put the hostnames in there. derek On Tuesday 14 May 2002 8:33 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: Derek, Thanks for the info .. how would I be able to configure it using DHCP? Thanks! Terry On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:23, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 14 May 2002 1:58 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I'm still having trouble getting printing to work using MDK 8.2 using CUPS and Samba. I think I may have narrowed down the problem though. When I add a SMB shared printer using the wizard in KUPS, I have noticed that CUPS tries to use my laptop's integrated network card (eth0)to send the printing through. I am using a wireless network card (eth1) for my networking. Is there a way I can tell CUPS to use eth1 instead of eth0? Thanks for the help! Terry If you do not use this interface at all have you tried disabling it first in the BIOS and if that is not possible using netconf to disable that adapter? Alternatively if you do need both interfaces then open kups (or KDE Control CentreSystemPrint manager as root) Select 'Configure server' (Which is the second 'spanner' (or 'wrench' depending on which country you live in) from the right.) Select Connection and set the 'broadcast address' to include the interface(s) you wish CUPS messages to go over e.g. 192.167.1.255 That should do the trick derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problems
--- Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : My printer , a Canon S450, suddenly is printing everything twice as large as it should be. This includes fonts and graphics. I am using the cups system and have tried replacing the driver, from Linuxprinting.org's cups-o-matic system. Anyone come across this before? I am using M8.2, 512 meg of ram and have lots of disk space. Roly -- The directions said to install Windows 98/2000 or better! So I installed Linux! Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Hello Roland I once, long time ago faced the same problem with my old HP695C DeskJet printer but in LM 8.1 not in 8.2 that I'm running right now. I did the following: from the Mandrake Control Center I removed completely the printer, went to SysVInit from the root account GUI and restarted CUPS server. I went on to the Mandrake Control Center and reinstalled the Printer choosing another driver than the recommended one. Everything worked fine. And everytime I faced problems I was shutting down and restarting the CUPS server. Sometimes when this didn't work and my printer was still printing crap, I rebooted. Hope this helps temporarily Greetings Dimitris Ioannou Do You Yahoo!? @yahoo.grhttp://www.otenet.gr Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing to windows domain printer using Samba and CUPS
Terry, I'm not sure this will help, but I HAD the same problems in 8.1 that you seem to be having. I somehow conquered them when I installed 8.2, but I doubt the upgrade helped. I must have finally done something right. I even have the printer test page upon my wall as a trophy. ;) Here are some things I would look for: Are you sending your username/password to print on the network? I stumbled here. In my /etc/cups/printers.conf I have a line for my Win2K network printer that looks like: DeviceURI smb://username:password@servername/printername I specified my credentials when I added the printer using the CUPS web admin interface. Is your /etc/samba/smb.conf OK? Here are some settings I have in mine that might be important: workgroup=my logon domain encrypt passwords=yes wins server= IP address 1 IP address 2 Make sure your firewall, if present, is not interfering. And lastly, look for entries in your various /var/log files for any clues. - Kathy On Sun, 2002-04-28 at 23:53, Terry wrote: I'm still having trouble with this .. can anyone offer any suggestions? Anyone experiencing problems printing to a networked printer in a windows 2000 domain using LM 8.2 and its version of Samba and CUPS? I am able to print using LM 8.1 and its version of Samba and CUPS, but in LM 8.2, I use KUPS to add the windows shared printer, but when I try to print something, it hangs in the local queue, never goes to the print server, and doesn't make it to the printer. This is the one thing that is keeping me from using this laptop at work on a full-time basis, so and ideas would be most appreciated! Thanks! Terry Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing PDF
On Saturday 27 April 2002 11:46 am, shane wrote: On Saturday 27 April 2002 06:54, Gerald Waugh opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: When I try to print pdf files I get the following error; The application KGhostView (kghostview) crashed and caused the signal 11 (SIGSEFV). not a real answer, but i have to print from PS/PDF Viewer if i want a print from pdf. have you tried it? Well, I get a little different error but it still won't print, bummer! I am using an HP 697C Deskjet and CUPS Thanks anyway... -- Gerald Waugh : Registered Linux user # 255245 http://www.frontstreetnetworks.com Front Street Networks LLC - ph. 203.785.0699 229 Front Street, Ste. #C, New Haven, CT, United States of America 12:08pm up 36 days, 19:35, 3 users, load average: 1.05, 0.98, 0.99 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing in wp8 and 8.2
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 06:00:11 -0400, Jonathan Dlouhy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.2 and have WordPerfect 8 installed. With version 8.1 I had no trouble printing from WP. Now after a clean install of version 8.2 I can't get WP to allow me to assign a destination to the printer. I have two printers, both work fine with other apps. BTW, I'm using the CUPS printing gizmo, but I'm not stuck on it if there's another way or a better way of handling the printing. See if you can do this: 1. Configure WP8 to print raw postscript; do not specify a specific printer 2. Install the xpp package and set WP8 to print to the 'xpp' command. If that doesn't work: 1. In WP8, print to a postscript file 2. Open this file in xpp and print it from there. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan I wrote code that works. I didn't test it, but the discussion is closed. It might have syntactic problems, but it does work. Better than any kernel extension ever would. End of story. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with Windows Fonts
Solved it myself: Just in case someone has similar problems here is the solution. It was OpenOffice itself that was the problem. It could display any Truetype font but could not print them correctly. I think my mistake was in using ./spadmin to import my TT fonts into OpenOffice before using drakfont to import the same fonts into the system. Reinstalling OO fixed it, and all the TT fonts known to drakfont were immediately available to OO without having to use ./spadmin Grrr I spent 8 hours tracking that one down, and it all started when I could not get kdeprintfax to send a fax Oh well, I've learned a lot about Ghostscript and X Font servers... derek On Monday 15 April 2002 3:18 pm, Derek Jennings wrote: Has anyone had any success printing Documents with fonts imported from Windows with 8.2? Here is my scenario :- drakfont used to import fonts from Windows - No problem. All the fonts come over OK openoffice used to create document using tahoma font (for example) - Document is printed to file as postscript. Any attempt to open the file with Ghostscript produces error [derek@Derek derek]$ gs file_name AFPL Ghostscript 7.04 (2002-01-31) Copyright (C) 2001 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved. This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file PUBLIC for details. Error: /undefinedfilename in --.libfile-- Operand stack: Tahoma Font () Execution stack: Blah blah When I do the same thing using one of the Mandrake built in fonts this procedure works. I have tried upgrading from ghostscript 6.53 to 7.04 and have upgraded ghostscript-fonts to 6.0 I have also tried defining the GS_FONTPATH cariable to include the directory where the imported fonts are stored [derek@Derek derek]$ echo $GS_FONTPATH /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/drakfont/Type1:/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts Running out of ideas. Any suggestions? TIA derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problem under CUPS
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 02:08, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble printing under CUPS v1.1.10 on LM 8.1. When I print a text file, the last line of each page doesn't come out. I believe this has something to do with the printable area, but how do I configure this? I have tried different printers and different drivers and the results are always the same. Any help is welcome. TIA, Two suggestions 1/ Right click on your printer Icon select PropertiesAdvancedAdjustments then increase the bottom margin. 2/ From a root terminal window run 'alignmargins' (without quotes) A terminal window pops up Follow the instructions HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing Problem under CUPS
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 8:07 pm, you wrote: Have you tried changing printer drivers? You did not mention your orinter type, but generally the gimp-print drivers tend to work the best, or so I have been told. derek I have tried it on the following printers: - HP 695C - drivers: HP DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 and HP DeskJet 690 series CUPS+GIMP-print v4.1.99-b2 - HP 840C - drivers: HP DeskJet Series CUPS v1.1 and HP DeskJet 840C CUPS+GIMP-print v4.1.99-b2 The results are always the same. -- Guilherme Cirne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing.. lpr or cups
I am only printing with Cups and it works under both KDE and Gnome. Under Gnome, usually the print dialog comes up with generic printer or something like that. I simply select the name of my printer from the dropdown list. I do happen to have both KDE and Gnome loaded, so I don't know if that makes a difference. Joe On 16 Mar 2002 15:07:49 -0300 damian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hello everyone.. i've got one that is making me a little mad when it comes to printing. all kde applications that have a print option use CUPS + Gimp-print, which works well, however, all Gnome apps, staroffice, etc ( all non-KDE-specific apps ) use lpr, so i want them to use CUPS. how can i manage to do this? CUPS does not appear as an option in print setup in any of these programs, and i've only managed to print to PS output, then ps2pdf and print from KDE's pdf viewer. is there any way to get cups as an option fon printing in non-kde apps? ... i've got a weird feeling it's a simple matter..? Damian Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing.. lpr or cups
On Saturday 16 March 2002 20:07, damian wrote: hello everyone.. i've got one that is making me a little mad when it comes to printing. all kde applications that have a print option use CUPS + Gimp-print, which works well, however, all Gnome apps, staroffice, etc ( all non-KDE-specific apps ) use lpr, so i want them to use CUPS. how can i manage to do this? CUPS does not appear as an option in print setup in any of these programs, and i've only managed to print to PS output, then ps2pdf and print from KDE's pdf viewer. is there any way to get cups as an option fon printing in non-kde apps? ... i've got a weird feeling it's a simple matter..? lpr is a print command - you're thinking of lpd, which is the print daemon, and the alternative to CUPS. I only have CUPS installed, and I've never had any problems with non-KDE apps. Check your CUPS configuration and /etc/printcap - if they're set up with defaults (/etc/printcap should just have one line reading lp:, assuming you have one printer which is locally connected) then you should have no problems. Robin Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing
Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul Isn't Linux case sensitive i.e. user Paul is different to user paul? -- === Hylton Conacher on KDE 2.1.1 on kernel 2.4.3-20mdk#1 Registered Linux user # 229959 on Mandrake 8 on an i686 (AMD 1 Ghz K7 mobo Licenced Windows user More hardware info on request === Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing
On Wed, 06 Mar 2002, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: %_Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul Isn't Linux case sensitive i.e. user Paul is different to user paul? I don;t think you can have two users named paul no matter what case it is. -- Gerald Waugh Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wed, 06 Mar 2002, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: %_Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul Isn't Linux case sensitive i.e. user Paul is different to user paul? I don;t think you can have two users named paul no matter what case it is. -- Gerald Waugh Spike Milligan voiceOh yes you can /Spike Milligan voice and apparently your username/passwords need to match identically in three places. Windows, Linux and Samba share. Sorry Gerald but we are talking about the usernames passwords on different computers here. Michael -- (*_ //\ V_/_ Pi##ed Penguin (Drunk) Borrowed from http://www.ascii-art.de/ascii/pqr/penguins.txt Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing
Paul, The user name mapping is done in /etc/samba/smbusers You can edit this file as root or use swat or webmin to set up the access If you haven't checked out webmin, I can recommend it Not too much you can't control from there! HTH Brian On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 05:15, Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul I futzed with /etc/smbusers (added username map = line to smbconf) and still no success (Yes, I restarted the smb service too) thanks Paul Yes, Samba is what does it, but don't be concerned about getting that going There's not much more to it than turning it on Just post again here if you have any problems with it Do I need to set up samba in order to get printing from a windowz thing to the printer on a decent Linux computer working? If not, what is the way to go then? -- Keep your promises to yourself -David H Fink http://nlpagannet - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 80 - Sylpheed 073 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing
On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul I futzed with /etc/smbusers (added username map = line to smbconf) and still no success (Yes, I restarted the smb service too) thanks Paul Yes, Samba is what does it, but don't be concerned about getting that going There's not much more to it than turning it on Just post again here if you have any problems with it Do I need to set up samba in order to get printing from a windowz thing to the printer on a decent Linux computer working? If not, what is the way to go then? -- Keep your promises to yourself -David H Fink http://nlpagannet - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 80 - Sylpheed 073 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing
Yes, Samba is what does it, but don't be concerned about getting that going There's not much more to it than turning it on Just post again here if you have any problems with it Brian On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 07:00, Paul wrote: Hi all, Do I need to set up samba in order to get printing from a windowz thing to the printer on a decent Linux computer working? If not, what is the way to go then? Paul -- Much of the excitement we get out of our work is that we don't really know what we are doing -E Dijkstra http://nlpagannet - Registered Linux User 174403 Linux Mandrake 80 - Sylpheed 073 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://wwwmandrakestorecom
Re: [newbie] Printing problems
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:00, you wrote: By the way, what is the difference between Cups and lpr ? Sorry for the stupid question : ), but I am a little bit confused with them. For me they seem to be totally different printing systems. Why do some programs use one instead of another ? Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I have developed a theory on my Mandrake system that lpr is somehow aliased to cups. *** Powered by SuSE Linux 7.3 Professional KDE 2.2.1 KMail 1.3.1 This is a Microsoft-free computer Bryan S. Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing problems
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:32:57 -0500, Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:00, you wrote: By the way, what is the difference between Cups and lpr ? Sorry for the stupid question : ), but I am a little bit confused with them. For me they seem to be totally different printing systems. Why do some programs use one instead of another ? Someone correct me if I am wrong, but I have developed a theory on my Mandrake system that lpr is somehow aliased to cups. LPR is an ancient printing technology originally designed in the 1970s (IIRC) for line printers. Until only a few years ago, it was the the default printing system on most distributions. LPR has many shortcomings, and many would say that it lived far past its use-by date. CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) is an entirely new system that has replaced CUPS in most *NIX distributions. It is fully network and Internet aware, and is far more suitable for today's printers that LPR ever was. Mandrake offers both LPR and CUPS (and a few others, I think), but the default is CUPS. There is no need to use LPR, as everything can be done with CUPS. For best results, install the xpp package, and then instruct your applications to use 'xpp' as their printing command. XPP is a Mandrake package that allows extra control over your prinitng. -- Sridhar Dhanapalan The linux kernel has had an interesting release pattern: usually the .0 release was actually fairly good (there's almost always something stupid, but on the whole not really horrible). And every single time so far, .1 has been worse. It usually takes until something like .5 until it has caught up and surpassed the stability of .0 again. -- Linus Torvalds Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
Oops almost last you in the mass of this maillist. Thanks, a usefull adition. I think that I have enough pointers now to solve the problem next weekend. Greetings, EvertB -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Brian Parish Sent: dinsdag 29 januari 2002 3:25 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. Good luck Brian On Tue, 2002-01-29 at 06:56, Derek Jennings wrote: On Saturday 26 January 2002 13:34, Evert van den Bos wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to install my HP 970 cxi printer in Mandrake but I want to assign it to a tcp/ip port. My printer is not attached to the Mandrake box but to a freesco box acting as a printer server. In windows this is fairly simple. I just install the printer as if it was attached to my PC (ingnoring messages the device is not found). Then I change the assigned lpt1 port to the TCP/IP port ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This port is created with the installment of an AXIS driver. It works great in Windows and I would like to do the same in Mandrake. But I have no idea how, and didn't find any clues on the web yet. Thanks. Evertb If you add your printer using the CUPS web tool (http://localhost:631/printers) you will see one of the options is to use 'Internet Printing Protocol', and then on the next page it shows some example addresses socket://hostname:9100 socket://hostname I've never needed to use it, but this looks like what you need. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
Brian Parish wrote: I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run on top of Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 15:22, Randy Kramer wrote: Brian Parish wrote: I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run on top of Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? Randy Kramer No... CUPS is independent of Samba. If you have CUPS running in several computers they are all aware of each others printers, and you can print to any of them. I think they can also print to any printer Samba is aware of. Not sure about that as my printers are on Linux machines. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
Derek Jennings wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run on top of Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? No... CUPS is independent of Samba. If you have CUPS running in several computers they are all aware of each others printers, and you can print to any of them. I think they can also print to any printer Samba is aware of. Not sure about that as my printers are on Linux machines. Thanks! BTW, WRT your second last sentence, Linux boxes running CUPS can print to Windows boxes using TCP/IP based SMB (which is what Samba was written to do for Linux) -- this is how I currently print from my Linux boxes. Randy Kramer Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port
On Saturday 26 January 2002 13:34, Evert van den Bos wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to install my HP 970 cxi printer in Mandrake but I want to assign it to a tcp/ip port. My printer is not attached to the Mandrake box but to a freesco box acting as a printer server. In windows this is fairly simple. I just install the printer as if it was attached to my PC (ingnoring messages the device is not found). Then I change the assigned lpt1 port to the TCP/IP port ([EMAIL PROTECTED]). This port is created with the installment of an AXIS driver. It works great in Windows and I would like to do the same in Mandrake. But I have no idea how, and didn't find any clues on the web yet. Thanks. Evertb If you add your printer using the CUPS web tool (http://localhost:631/printers) you will see one of the options is to use 'Internet Printing Protocol', and then on the next page it shows some example addresses socket://hostname:9100 socket://hostname I've never needed to use it, but this looks like what you need. HTH derek Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word
Thanx for everyones help, go figure it now works, I dropped the file from Konqueror onto the printer icon and it printed with AbiWord formatting, I then went into Abi Word and as someone else stated it printed the last page only?? But I can request whichever page want and it will print that page out. If anyone knows why Abi Word will only print the last page I am courious. I am using lpr and I have an Epson Stylus Color 600 Andrew D On Monday 12 November 2001 12:26, Gordon Burgess-Parker wrote: H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:02, you wrote: Currently I am using Abi Word version version 0.9.2 and I cannot get it to print on Mandrake 8. The setting in Abi Word is Printer and command lpr. But nothing. I can print to file (ps) all OK, but when I print to the printer nothing happens. Where should I start looking so to fix this problem? (I can print from other apps like KWord and such but I want to use ABI Word). Thanx Andrew D You've probably got cups installed. Instead of lpr use qtcups and it should work. To check if it's working, open a console and type: lpq it should read something like this; Printer is ready and printing RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size active harm35 file:/ 20480 bytes to stop a running or queued printing job, type: lprm and enter the job number when asked. good luck, Harm Bathoorn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a document! Anyone got any clues about this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word
- Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word On Monday 12 November 2001 18:26, you wrote: I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a document! Anyone got any clues about this? Abiword certainly isn't perfect yet, but it shouldn't/doesn't do that :-p Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr command i.e. do you print through ghostscript or cups? If you enter the qtcups command instead of the lpr, the cups dialog (same as the one the printer-icon on the desktop gives) should appear. Which gives you quite a lot of fine-tune options if you dig any deeper. Otherwise you can always give turboprint a try, they're at www.turboprint.de (not .com), the webpage is very transparent :) Harm Printer Samsung ML4500 printing through CUPS. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word
On Monday 12 November 2001 23:20, you wrote: From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word - Original Message - Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr command i.e. do you print through ghostscript or snip cups? Printer Samsung ML4500 printing through CUPS. Well frankly I've never printed multipage documents under Abiword. I always use Staroffice :) So I tried it. Apart from some loading problems (Abiword just disappeared on me ) forcing me to load/open from the commandline--no problems. On clicking the print button (9 page document) the dialog pops up, I change lpr to qtcups and press -print-. Then the cups-print dialog pops-up and that's the normal printqueu for me. I'd check out the page settings of both dialogs and see if there's something awry there, if the problem persists. Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:02, you wrote: Currently I am using Abi Word version version 0.9.2 and I cannot get it to print on Mandrake 8. The setting in Abi Word is Printer and command lpr. But nothing. I can print to file (ps) all OK, but when I print to the printer nothing happens. Where should I start looking so to fix this problem? (I can print from other apps like KWord and such but I want to use ABI Word). Thanx Andrew D You've probably got cups installed. Instead of lpr use qtcups and it should work. To check if it's working, open a console and type: lpq it should read something like this; Printer is ready and printing RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size active harm35 file:/ 20480 bytes to stop a running or queued printing job, type: lprm and enter the job number when asked. good luck, Harm Bathoorn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:02, you wrote: Currently I am using Abi Word version version 0.9.2 and I cannot get it to print on Mandrake 8. The setting in Abi Word is Printer and command lpr. But nothing. I can print to file (ps) all OK, but when I print to the printer nothing happens. Where should I start looking so to fix this problem? (I can print from other apps like KWord and such but I want to use ABI Word). Thanx Andrew D You've probably got cups installed. Instead of lpr use qtcups and it should work. To check if it's working, open a console and type: lpq it should read something like this; Printer is ready and printing RankOwner Job File(s) Total Size active harm35 file:/ 20480 bytes to stop a running or queued printing job, type: lprm and enter the job number when asked. good luck, Harm Bathoorn. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a document! Anyone got any clues about this? -- Mandrake 8.0 User since 8 October 2001 Registered Linux User No 240308 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word
On Monday 12 November 2001 18:26, you wrote: I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a document! Anyone got any clues about this? Abiword certainly isn't perfect yet, but it shouldn't/doesn't do that :-p Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr command i.e. do you print through ghostscript or cups? If you enter the qtcups command instead of the lpr, the cups dialog (same as the one the printer-icon on the desktop gives) should appear. Which gives you quite a lot of fine-tune options if you dig any deeper. Otherwise you can always give turboprint a try, they're at www.turboprint.de (not .com), the webpage is very transparent :) Harm Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from StartOffice?
You need to run 'spadmin' as superuser. I should be located in the same folder as 'soffice'. Now let's go get the your printer's driver. If you're using LM8.0, you need to unzip (gzip -d filename.gz) /usr/share/cups/model/HP/DeskJet_882C-cdj880.ppd.gz into a new folder where 'spadmin' can use your printer driver file. Back to 'spadmin'... Run it from SU console: spadmin . Once there, select the [Install new driver...] button. Browse to location of printer driver and select it. Back to spadmin; select [Add new printer] button to select printer. Then in the Installed printers window, make the new printer Default. Close SPADMIN. Go back to Staroffice and select from menu: files - printer setup. Verify that the new printer has been selected. That's it!!! From that, resolution and a variety of other things can be adjusted prior to printing. Good Luck, Sevatio Original Message On 8/17/01, 5:24:11 PM, Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [newbie] Printing from StartOffice?: I am currently using Mandrake with StarOffice. I can create and print documents easily from Kword, but StarOffice does a much better job importing MS documents, so I would like to be able to print from that. However, I can't print from it. Also, when I save the documents as Postgscript, the Postscript also doesn't print. It just does nothing. This is with a Deskjet 882C. Ghostscript is installed, and it does work to display the documents, but they don't print. Some postscript files do print, but none generated by StarOffice or enscript for example. Any sugestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing from StartOffice?
Uh sorry did not read this one at first. Well there is a link that can help you: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups8.html one adittional thing: I have an epson stylus 400 printer, and I don't know why but in the StarOffice printer configuration I have to change postscript level 2 to postscript level 1, if not do so the the thing do not work. - Original Message - From: Dr. Evil [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 17, 2001 8:24 PM Subject: [newbie] Printing from StartOffice? I am currently using Mandrake with StarOffice. I can create and print documents easily from Kword, but StarOffice does a much better job importing MS documents, so I would like to be able to print from that. However, I can't print from it. Also, when I save the documents as Postgscript, the Postscript also doesn't print. It just does nothing. This is with a Deskjet 882C. Ghostscript is installed, and it does work to display the documents, but they don't print. Some postscript files do print, but none generated by StarOffice or enscript for example. Any sugestions? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet
Both Star Office and Word Perfect8 can print envelopes from an envelope slot. I use them both on a HP 632 deskjet. K word seems like it may be nice in the future, but it lacks a few desirable abilities. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 "Dr. Evil" wrote: I have a Deskjet 882c printer. It works fine with kword (sucks with printing graphics though). It has a handy little slot on it for putting in envelopes. However, I don't see how to get Kword to make use of it by orienting text the right way and formating it in the correct position. Any hints? Or are there some other utilities out there which can print using this setup? Thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I have never been able to get Star Office to print! I need to look into that. In the future, Kword is going to be fantastic. MS may have some real competition from that corner. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including thecorrespondingfolders
On Saturday 23 June 2001 17:36, Romanator wrote: How about the sub folders only? tree -d in fact, try man tree and you'll find a lot of options ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC Hi, is that the U S Patent Office? I'd like to patent the FOR-NEXT loop, please ...
Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including thecorrespondingfolders
Michel Clasquin wrote: On Saturday 23 June 2001 17:36, Romanator wrote: How about the sub folders only? tree -d in fact, try man tree and you'll find a lot of options ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a Microsoft-free PC Hi, is that the U S Patent Office? I'd like to patent the FOR-NEXT loop, please ... Hi Michel, I'll let you know how things turn out. Thanks for responding. -- Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders
Try the tree command. It's basically a clone of the old DOS programme. For details: $ man tree You can send the output to a text file for printing (or directly to a printer if you really want): $ tree filename Note that if there are many files this can take a *very* long time. On Sat, 23 Jun 2001 23:46, Romanator wrote: Hi everybody, How can Linux allow the user to print out the root directory and include the sub folders only? For example /root/1st sub/2nd sub/ and so on. Rather than dragging the folder over the printer icon on the desktop, there must be a more user-friendly way of implementing this feature. I have noticed that Windows Explorer doesn't allow you to print out a root directory with its sub folders in Explorer. In fact I have never seen this at all, and many people have inquired about this omission. This would a nice print feature to add to your 'right-click' menu in Konqueror. Any ideas or thoughts? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence. -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders
How about ls -lR | grep drwx lp or whatever the printer re-direct is. It may not be as pretty as you like it, but it's a start. You could write a script to re-format it. Miark - Original Message - From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001 7:46 AM Subject: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders Hi everybody, How can Linux allow the user to print out the root directory and include the sub folders only? For example /root/1st sub/2nd sub/ and so on. Rather than dragging the folder over the printer icon on the desktop, there must be a more user-friendly way of implementing this feature. I have noticed that Windows Explorer doesn't allow you to print out a root directory with its sub folders in Explorer. In fact I have never seen this at all, and many people have inquired about this omission. This would a nice print feature to add to your 'right-click' menu in Konqueror. Any ideas or thoughts? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders
On Sunday 24 June 2001 01:34, Miark wrote: How about ls -lR | grep drwx lp or whatever the printer re-direct is. It may not be as pretty as you like it, but it's a start. You could write a script to re-format it. [...] I think that should be ls -lR | grep drwx | lp, otherwise you should get an access denied message. -- Peter Ruskin, Wrexham, Wales. Registered Linux User No. 219434 ( see http://counter.li.org/ ) Linux Mandrake release 8.0 (Traktopel) for i586 Linux 2.4.3-20mdk-win4lin-pnr, KDE: 2.1.2, Qt: 2.3.1 Uptime 1 day 0 hours 59 minutes
Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders
Roman, You're talking about printing a tree of folders? Nice idea. Can't see myself using it a lot, but what the hey. How about the option of customing the right-click menu for just about anything, or for repetitive jobs. Kinda like a wizard that sees the things you do most, and allows you to put them into the right-click menu? Dan On June 23, 2001 09:46 am, you wrote: Hi everybody, How can Linux allow the user to print out the root directory and include the sub folders only? For example /root/1st sub/2nd sub/ and so on. Rather than dragging the folder over the printer icon on the desktop, there must be a more user-friendly way of implementing this feature. I have noticed that Windows Explorer doesn't allow you to print out a root directory with its sub folders in Explorer. In fact I have never seen this at all, and many people have inquired about this omission. This would a nice print feature to add to your 'right-click' menu in Konqueror. Any ideas or thoughts? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility
Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders
I would like the option of customizing the right-click menu. Sort'a like a kpanel for right-clicks. I like it already. Gotta get to work. Lanman wrote: Roman, You're talking about printing a tree of folders? Nice idea. Can't see myself using it a lot, but what the hey. How about the option of customing the right-click menu for just about anything, or for repetitive jobs. Kinda like a wizard that sees the things you do most, and allows you to put them into the right-click menu? Dan On June 23, 2001 09:46 am, you wrote: Hi everybody, How can Linux allow the user to print out the root directory and include the sub folders only? For example /root/1st sub/2nd sub/ and so on. Rather than dragging the folder over the printer icon on the desktop, there must be a more user-friendly way of implementing this feature. I have noticed that Windows Explorer doesn't allow you to print out a root directory with its sub folders in Explorer. In fact I have never seen this at all, and many people have inquired about this omission. This would a nice print feature to add to your 'right-click' menu in Konqueror. Any ideas or thoughts? Roman Registered Linux User #179293 Email Powered By Tux Email Utility
RE: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS
Tuan, many thanks. After spending 1.5 days trying to get my printer working from my Mandrake box I finally managed within one hour using CUPS. Cheers, Norman Tuan Duc Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/01 03:12am Well, The best way to setup is using CUPS. First, I assumed you installed CUPS Second, you need to open browser (Ex. Netscape) and type http://localhost:631 it will ask you ROOT password. from this page you can add new printer. When it ask you the port; select app/jet direct. It will show socket:// . you need to type: socket://(your printer server IP):9100) (EX. socket://192.168.0.1:9100). It will ask you to select printer and it also ask you if you want to print a test page. I use Jetdirect170 so I put IP:9100. If it does not work with your print server, try to use 9101 or 9102. FYI, It seem like my printer prints slower when I use Linux but it does good job. Tuan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Norman Teferle Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS Hi all, I really need advice here. I have installed LM8 and want to set up a printer. We have a LaserJet 4000 Series PS on a network and use Netware (ipx,spx protocol) for the Windows pc's to print on it. I have set up the HP JetDirect print server on the printer and can talk to it via its ip address. From all the websites and howto's I see there are many different options for me CUPS, LPRng and so on. Can someone comment on my options please, eg. what is easy to set up? Thanks, Norman _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
RE: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS
Well, The best way to setup is using CUPS. First, I assumed you installed CUPS Second, you need to open browser (Ex. Netscape) and type http://localhost:631 it will ask you ROOT password. from this page you can add new printer. When it ask you the port; select app/jet direct. It will show socket:// . you need to type: socket://(your printer server IP):9100) (EX. socket://192.168.0.1:9100). It will ask you to select printer and it also ask you if you want to print a test page. I use Jetdirect170 so I put IP:9100. If it does not work with your print server, try to use 9101 or 9102. FYI, It seem like my printer prints slower when I use Linux but it does good job. Tuan -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Norman Teferle Sent: Tuesday, June 19, 2001 9:47 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS Hi all, I really need advice here. I have installed LM8 and want to set up a printer. We have a LaserJet 4000 Series PS on a network and use Netware (ipx,spx protocol) for the Windows pc's to print on it. I have set up the HP JetDirect print server on the printer and can talk to it via its ip address. From all the websites and howto's I see there are many different options for me CUPS, LPRng and so on. Can someone comment on my options please, eg. what is easy to set up? Thanks, Norman _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with 8 - repost
On Thursday 14 June 2001 10:34, you wrote: I've not received any suggestions for this problem so am trying one last time. I can't seem to get my HP LJIII to print. The printer and cable work fine under DOS. It's connected to the only parallel port (lpt0? - LP1 in DOS). I try to set up local printing from KDE 2 and I get a choice of Postscript, a Deskjet series, or text-only. I choose text-only but can't print a test page. It doesn't even try - no blank page, no garbage, nothing. I can't print from Kmail either. In another thread someone suggested using Kups (Configuration - Printers - Kups. There is no 'Kups' or 'cups' choice on my system. I had told the original MD 8 install to load everything for a workstation. The KDE software manager shows both on the CD but not installed. Any suggestions appreciated. In previous versions I selected my printer from a long list, told the computer which port, a printcap entry was made for me and I was printing in no time. I was disappointed in this new no-printer-choice set-up in MD 8. I would prefer this system as it has always worked well for a local printer in many previous Linux distributions including Mandrake 7.0. TIA Ken If you want to try cups, you have the cd's so just install the rpms, then at a command line type kups to start it -- Poogle Registered Linux user 182657 (added to sig for the benefit of those irritated by it)
Re: [newbie] Printing from Star Office
On Wednesday, Jun 06, 2001, Richard Davies wrote: I have Star Office 5.2 runing under Mandrake 7.2 with the printer HP Deskjet 52 set up under CUPS. It all works fine except that everytime I start Star Office it sets the printer resolution to 600 DPI and everything prints twice size so I only get a quarter of it on a sheet. If I notice this when telling it to print I can reset it to 300 DPI and it works just fine until the next time I start Star Office when it is reset to 600 DPI again. How does one make the resolution setting permanent please? You should have an icon called 'StarOffice Printer Setup' or something like that in your Office group. Run that, and then you can change it for good. BUT you have to run it as root to save your changes. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED], ICQ#: 25370820, OpenPGP key at www.keyserver.net 1024D/39F0BBF4 2024 B7CB 10BF 6BE7 2ECE E0FD 1360 0181 39F0 BBF4 Current Linux uptime: 6 days 12 hours 56 minutes.
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
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
Re: [newbie] Printing in WordPerfect
Dear All, I have the WordPerfect demo on my LM7.2 but cannot get printing to work with my Epson Stylus Color printer. My printer is not It's been sometime since I worked with WordPerfect, but if you can print with other applications, you probably should choose generic postscript, and have WordPerfct print through lpr or cups. David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. ---
Re: [newbie] Printing in WordPerfect
you probably should choose generic postscript, and have WordPerfct print through lpr or cups. Thank you for your help. I did that and it did the trick. It works fine, now, thanks. Sincerely, Marcia
Re: [newbie] printing via samba
Can you send me the files /etc/smb.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf and the output of the following commands (enter them in a terminal window): rpm -qa | grep samba rpm -qa | grep cups lpstat -t ps auxwww | grep smb ps auxwww | grep cups Till dede wrote: I am using Mandrake 7.2 with samba 2.07. I have problem that my client (windows 95) cannot print via samba. The error comment on client is : There was an error writing to \\Buaya\printer for printer (Canon) BJC-210SP) The netwrok name cannot be found For disk share running well. On server I try to test print and work well too. I already follow the printer troubleshooting on windows but no result. And I already read printing.txt that came with samba distribution..and also can't help. My steps are : - /etc/rc.d/init.d/smb restart (in this step smb always failed, why ???) - testparm - testprns lp - smbclient -L localhost Here is my smb.conf -- # Samba config file created using SWAT # from localhost.localdomain (127.0.0.1) # Date: 2001/03/08 14:12:06 # Global parameters [global] workgroup = ITS netbios name = BUAYA domain logons = no server string = samba n (%L) interfaces = 1.1.1.20/8 security = user # password server = kancil encrypt passwords = Yes debug level = 0 syslog = 2 log file = /var/log/samba/samba.log.%m max log size = 50 os level = 34 local master = yes preferred master = yes domain master = yes wins support = yes auto services = made remote announce = 1.1.1.255/ITS hosts allow = 1.1.1. localhost [netlogon] comment = domain logon service path = /export/samba/logon public = no writeable = no browsable = no [printer] comment = canon kesayanganku... printable = yes printing = BSD I also use this command before but it doesn't work.. # print command = /usr/bin/lpr -P0 print command = echo "printed on 0" /tmp/printlog print command = cp /tmp/tmp.print lpq command = lpq -P0 lprm command = lprm -P0 %j printcap name = /etc/printcap printer = lp min print space = 2000 path = /var/spool/public printer = lp read only = yes guest ok = false valid users = made [data] comment = data drive path = /mnt writeable = Yes guest ok = Yes map system = Yes map hidden = Yes volume = simple data drive follow symlinks = No --- Is there some thing wrong with the smb.conf ??? Did I miss any step ?? Please help me... thanks Made From Bali
Re: [newbie] Printing from Staroffice 5.2 under CUPS ?
Hi Ron... I don't use SO so I can't help directly -- but here are a couple of links that should help. The first is for the Mandrakeuser.org site that discusses CUPS printing generally: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html The second talks about SO specifically: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups8.html Paraguay, eh? Interesting. I was in Venezuela a couple of times last year and I am hoping to go to Guyana this summer. South America is amazing, a whole other world... Buenos tardes! M. On Saturday 03 March 2001 07:11, Renaud OLGIATI wrote: I am (trying to) configure the printer fro SO 5.2 but have not so far even managed to print a test page. I found a printer in the list offered by SO, but dont know what to indicate as the print command (lpr -Plp ?) for printing under Cups. Any idea ? TIA, Ron, on the bbanks of the Paraguay River. -- Michael O'Henly TENZO Design
Re: [newbie] Printing from Star Office
If you printer has been set up to print from other apps via LPR or CUPS, then all you need to do is print as postscript (don't choose a driver for your specific printer). The print daemon will use its own driver to translate this to a language that your printer understands. On Sun, 25 Feb 2001 15:24, - Ron - wrote: My printer works just fine from all applications except Star Office Apps. Then it just prints gibberish. Is it outputting in Postscript? I have selected configured my printer in SO, but it just doesn't work right. How do you...? -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
Re: [newbie] Printing using lpd not CUPS
If you do an expert install you get the option of using LPR or the newer CUPS. CUPS is generally better than LPR, but it still has a few teething problems, like hardware support. On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:05, Lionel Chan wrote: Greetings, Don't really know what's happening but I don't seem to be able to find my question on the list. I.m trying again. Here goes By default Man 7.2 prints via CUPS. Even kups and printtool commands invoke CUPS. I would like to print via the lpd daemon using lpr or lprng. I have been trying in vain to step up lpd. Any idea how to do it? Thanks very much -- Sridhar Dhanapalan. "There are two major products that come from Berkeley: LSD and UNIX. We don't believe this to be a coincidence." -- Jeremy S. Anderson
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
Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)
Please tell me which driver (CUPS + GIMP-print, Foomatic + stp, Foomatic + stcolor, ...) you use. Send me /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd and tell me whether your printer is connected via USB or via the parallel port. Print also to a file from your application and display the file with "gv". Are there any PostScript error messages which "gv" puts out when going through all the pages with the "" button? Till Terry C wrote: Now that I'm home; here's the printer error message: Error /undefined in rce topped_;ush --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- fa lse 1 topped_push 1 3 0parray_pop 1 3 0parray_pop .runexec 2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 topped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval Dictionary stack: --dict:908/941 (G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:51/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 1091317
Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)
What printer do you have? When you print to a file by choosing "File" and then "Print" and marking the "Print to file" check box in the printing dialog of Star Office, can you display this file with "gv"? Can you print the file with "xpp"? Till Terry C wrote: I followed the instructions on mandrakeuser.org and ended up with the following problem: From a terminal I ran spadmin and changed the default print queue to qtcups from lpr in the generic printer driver. I then printed a test page. A page printed correctly, then it continued to print and printed mulit-colored random characters. It continued to do this until I turned the printer off. After turning the printer back on I tried to print again and nothing would print. I tried xpp in addition to qtcups. Nothing. A printer window will come up and it looks like it should print, but nothing comes out of the printer. I tried to go back to lpr, still nothing prints. I finally convinced my wife to work with StarOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and now this happens. :( Lets just say that she's not very happy with me right now. Thanks for any help you can provide.
Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)
I have an Epson 740. Some things have changed since I posted this message. I did an upgrade to the latest version of CUPS and I can now print. But all is still not well. When I print a StarOffice document the lpr print window comes up, I click on OK, and then the qtcups window comes up. I again click on OK and the document will print. The problem here is that after the document prints another page prints with error messages and then stops without feeding the page completely through the printer. I am at work now so I can't show what is printing out after the print job. It also only prints in the color setting. I have tried to have it print in greyscale, but it prints in color anyway. This only happens when printing in Star Office. I can print from any other application and printing works great. --- Till Kamppeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What printer do you have? When you print to a file by choosing "File" and then "Print" and marking the "Print to file" check box in the printing dialog of Star Office, can you display this file with "gv"? Can you print the file with "xpp"? Till Terry C wrote: I followed the instructions on mandrakeuser.org and ended up with the following problem: From a terminal I ran spadmin and changed the default print queue to qtcups from lpr in the generic printer driver. I then printed a test page. A page printed correctly, then it continued to print and printed mulit-colored random characters. It continued to do this until I turned the printer off. After turning the printer back on I tried to print again and nothing would print. I tried xpp in addition to qtcups. Nothing. A printer window will come up and it looks like it should print, but nothing comes out of the printer. I tried to go back to lpr, still nothing prints. I finally convinced my wife to work with StarOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and now this happens. :( Lets just say that she's not very happy with me right now. Thanks for any help you can provide. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)
Now that I'm home; here's the printer error message: Error /undefined in rce %stopped_;ush --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- fa lse 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec 2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval Dictionary stack: --dict:908/941 (G)-- --dict:0/20(G)-- --dict:51/200(L)-- Current allocation mode is local Current file position is 1091317 Thanks for your help with this. Terry --- Terry C [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an Epson 740. Some things have changed since I posted this message. I did an upgrade to the latest version of CUPS and I can now print. But all is still not well. When I print a StarOffice document the lpr print window comes up, I click on OK, and then the qtcups window comes up. I again click on OK and the document will print. The problem here is that after the document prints another page prints with error messages and then stops without feeding the page completely through the printer. I am at work now so I can't show what is printing out after the print job. It also only prints in the color setting. I have tried to have it print in greyscale, but it prints in color anyway. This only happens when printing in Star Office. I can print from any other application and printing works great. --- Till Kamppeter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What printer do you have? When you print to a file by choosing "File" and then "Print" and marking the "Print to file" check box in the printing dialog of Star Office, can you display this file with "gv"? Can you print the file with "xpp"? Till Terry C wrote: I followed the instructions on mandrakeuser.org and ended up with the following problem: From a terminal I ran spadmin and changed the default print queue to qtcups from lpr in the generic printer driver. I then printed a test page. A page printed correctly, then it continued to print and printed mulit-colored random characters. It continued to do this until I turned the printer off. After turning the printer back on I tried to print again and nothing would print. I tried xpp in addition to qtcups. Nothing. A printer window will come up and it looks like it should print, but nothing comes out of the printer. I tried to go back to lpr, still nothing prints. I finally convinced my wife to work with StarOffice instead of Microsoft Office, and now this happens. :( Lets just say that she's not very happy with me right now. Thanks for any help you can provide. __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/
Re: [newbie] Printing problem
Do the following: Do not reinstall Linux Mandrake 7.2. Try to print directly to the laser printer by entering (you can use any short text file): cat ~/.bashrc /dev/lp0 If this works (at least some of the text visible), there is a problem with the printer spooler (CUPS or LPD), otherwise there is a problem with the kernel and its modules or with the hardware. To solve the printing spooler problem, try a clean reinstallation: clean up your system by entering urpme cups lpr saying yes to the deletion of all dependent packages and entering rpm -rf /etc/cups /var/log/cups /var/spool/cups /var/spool/lpd Download and install the updated CUPS packages from http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ To download and install the packages simply copy and paste this into a terminal window: mkdir update cd update wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/cups-1.1.4-7mdk.i586.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/cups-drivers-0.3.6-39mdk.i586.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ghostscript-5.50-44mdk.src.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ghostscript-module-SVGALIB-5.50-44mdk.i586.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ghostscript-module-X-5.50-44mdk.i586.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/ghostscript-utils-5.50-44mdk.i586.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/samba-2.0.7-19mdk.i586.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/samba-client-2.0.7-19mdk.i586.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/samba-common-2.0.7-19mdk.i586.rpm wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/drakgw wget http://www.mandrakesoft.com/~tkamppeter/packages/cups-print.txt rpm -Uvh *.rpm cp drakgw /usr/sbin chmod a+rx /usr/sbin/drakgw Reinstall the CUPS frontends: urpmi xpp qtcups kups Now install your laser printer as described in cups-print.txt or as in http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/#4th Try the installation of the printers with "printerdrake" at first. Tell me exactly, step by step, what you have done, which program you have used, which driver you have chosen, and so on. Does "kups" show the printer ports? Do "printerdrake", "kups", and the web interface (http://localhost:631/) autodetect the printers? Do you get error messages? Can you print the test page, can you print from applications as described. If you still cannot print can you send me the files /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, /etc/cups/printers.conf, /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd, /var/log/cups/error_log, and the output of the "lsmod" command. Check also whether the CUPS daemon (the program which runs in the background waiting for printing jobs and processing them) is running? Do ps auxwww|grep cups If there is a line containing "cupsd" in the output, the daemon is running. If not, enter service cups start to start the CUPS daemon for the current session and chkconfig --add cups to make the CUPS daemon automatically being started at every boot. Now try the ink jet. Do the same as with the laser. If this printer is not autodetected, enter modprobe printer service cups restart and try again. Note that CUPS needs something like 30 seconds to come up. When you haveboth printers working, reboot and check whether they still work. If the USB printer does not work any more but the laser printer still works, edit the /etc/sysconfig/usb file adding the line PRINTER=yes and do service USB restart service CUPS restart and try to print on the USB printer again. Till Lionel Chan wrote: No problem printing under Windows or Redhat. Webmin and kups does not help either. Tks On Tue, 28 Nov 2000, you wrote: Is your printer correctly connected and turned on, is there any ink in the cartridge? Can you print under Windows? Till Lionel Chan wrote: Hi, Here's my configuration: - LPT0 - HP 6L laser printer USB0 - HP deskjet 870Cxi I've installed 7.2 5 times. Other than the very 1st time I couldn't get my printers to print. No matter what I try nothing gets printed. I've tried CUPS and lpr to no avail. Any tips/help is greatly appreciated. Tks -- CHAN Kin Poon -- CHAN Kin Poon
Re: [newbie] Printing problems with Kmail and Konqueror
Scott and Janet Miller wrote: Printing to a file and viewing the output with gv displays the problems exactly as it's printed. When gv displays a file exactly as it appears on the printer, CUPS, GhostScript, and the printer driver work perfectly. The problem is in the PostScript file which the application generated when you have used the printing command of it. If you cannot adjust the output format within your KDE application, this is a bug of the application. Also the not remembering of paper sizes and default printers is a bug of KDE. Please report all this on http://qa.mandrakesoft.org/ Till
Re: [newbie] Printing problem
Is your printer correctly connected and turned on, is there any ink in the cartridge? Can you print under Windows? Till Lionel Chan wrote: Hi, Here's my configuration: - LPT0 - HP 6L laser printer USB0 - HP deskjet 870Cxi I've installed 7.2 5 times. Other than the very 1st time I couldn't get my printers to print. No matter what I try nothing gets printed. I've tried CUPS and lpr to no avail. Any tips/help is greatly appreciated. Tks -- CHAN Kin Poon
Re: [newbie] printing
Barry Premeaux wrote: I have the Epson Stylus Color 850. I took care of the light print quality by going to the 'Printer' icon on the desktop. Click on 'Properties' and 'Advanced'. You will find a folder called 'Extra' and a highlighted text after 'Quality'. When you click on the highlighted text, it will open up the options. Mine was originally 180x180. I went to 720x720. This feature is probably available somewhere else in KDE, but I haven't found it as yet. The standard KDE printing dialog is unfortunately made for LPD and it does not offer any possibility for setting the resolution, because in LPD there is no possibility to send options for individual printouts. So the only possibility to set options for an individual printout is to start xpp or qtcups, change the options and save them. Then the KDE app would use them. Till
Re: [newbie] printing
Did you use the calibrate-gimpprint program? Did you try the different "Output Modes"? With which program did you print? Till Marcia wrote: Dear All, I finally got my Epson Stylus Color printer calibrated through the Cups webadmin. The Kups and printerdrake in my 7.2 distro did not do the trick. Everything was OK with the printing except still a little too light. Is there a way to make it darker? Then, all of a sudden every couple of pages that I print out will print out on a grey background instead of white. Does anyone know how to correct this? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] printing
With "Different output modes" I mean the printing option "Output mode".
One can choose between "Photo", "Solid tones", "Line art", and "black
and white". Look at the place where you have adjusted the resolution of
the printer ("Configure printer" in web interface or after right-click
on printer in kups, "Options" in xpp, "Properties" in qtcups).
Till
Marcia wrote:
Till, Yes, I did use the calibrate-gimpgrint program however I do not
remember exactly what I did there.
Different output modes? I am not sure what you mean there. Do you mean
within the program I am using or through calibration? I was getting this
grey background when I would print out an email or when I use Kword. I
do not get it all of the time. It is every now and then. Do you have any
ideas of what I can do? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] printing
On Tue, 21 November 2000, Marcia wrote: Barry, No, I have not tried the updates for Kups. How would I do that exactly? I am quite a newbie still with some things. I never did an update yet. Thank you. Marcia It's fairly straight forward. Log in on your ISP. Click on the Updates icon (or go to DrakConf). Select Update List. It will download a list of ftp servers followed by a list of available updates and the descriptions. The default server seems to be the download.sourceforge.net site. I have found it to be really slow, probably due to heavy activity. If you go to 'File', you can access 'Preferences'. From there, you can pull down the list of available sites and pick an alternative. The ftp.tux.org site was a lot faster. Keep in mind that the cups update is 6.6M, so you may want to opt for an alternative site first. To update, select the file you want and click on 'Do updates'. It goes through the download and the update automatically. Hope this helps. Barry :-) Surfree.com - nationwide internet access http://www.surfree.com
Re: [newbie] Printing with STAR OFFICE
Unfortunately Netscape has a bug in handling of .gz files. To read the text version do mv cups-print.txt cups-print.txt.gz gunzip cups-print.txt No it should be possible to read the file with every text editor/viewer and to print it with xpp, qtcups, lpr. You can even make your printout more compact by using the appropriate options. Till Ed Santiago wrote: I am using the generic driver and have not been able to read the txt version because it is all a bunch of gobbly goop when I try to bring it up in KWord or AbiWord etc etc. I also have the connect settings set to qtcups and xpp both of which respond but still do not print out the printer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Till Kamppeter Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 5:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ed Santiago Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with STAR OFFICE Did you read also the text version of the Mandrakeuser.org document? The web pages are still not complete and only treat the installation/configuration of CUPS. An important point is, that you do not use the printer drivers of Star Office. Use the "Generic printer". This makes Star Office outputting PostScript and CUPS translates it to the printer-specific protocol. Set up the options for your print job in qtcups or xpp, but check whether Star Office uses the correct paper format. Till Ed Santiago wrote: The printer works great in those, however in StarOffice it doesnt print. I have changed the "connect" to qtcups and to xpp, when I try to print the qtcups interface comes up but it doesnt print. It says print job:x, (x being a number depending on how many times I try) and yet nothing happens. I have been reading through alot of past mail and the Mandrake user stuff but cant find anything that applies to this. I am not on a network and the printer is hooked up to lp0 parrell port on my computer.
Re: [newbie] printing
Marcia wrote: Till, I have KDE2 and have some of the same printer problems as John. I will report the bugs now that I know. Thanks, Marcia Have you tried the update on cups? The newest version is cups 1.1.4-5.1mdk. It is suppose to take care of some security issues and some of the bugs. Barry :-)
Re: [newbie] printing
John Kintree wrote: Thanks to Till, Barry, Marcia, and other friends, Running the web administration tool for CUPS finally solved my problems. I have an Epson Stylus Color 400, and was getting the faint, poorly calibrated output, also. For some reason, changing the settings within kups did not work for me; the settings kept returning to the default of 180x180. The changes I made with the web adminstration tool "stuck." There are other changes I've had difficulty getting to stick, such as background color and look n' feel style. When I use the Control Panel to make these changes, the changes do not apply. I'm still looking at a periwinkle color background and the 'x' to close button in the top left corner. I would really like to get the 'x' to close button in the top right corner. John These things seem to be KDE bugs. Is your KDE version 2.0 (see KDE version number in "kcontrol", the KDE Control Center). If not, update it. If the problems are still there, file bugs on qa.mandrakesoft.com. Till
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
The printer musthave a fixed IP, because it does server tasks. It is not possible to let it get an IP automatically from the DHCP server (the address would be everytime different). Do the following: Enter "ifconfig" and look which IP is assigned to the card for your local network. It is usually "192.168.0.1". So the network is "192.168.0.". Assign an address inside this network to the printer, but choose one which cannot be assigned by the DHCP server. With the default setting in /etc/dhcpd.conf you can choose the fourth number of the printer's IP from 2 to 15. So you can use 192.168.0.2 for example. Please check the printer's manual for how to set this addres on the printer. Till Philip Trauring wrote: How can I set the IP address when the network is using DHCP? What's the default subnet for a DHCP server on Mandrake? I just used the Internet sharing feature in DrafConfig. I can set an IP Address on the HP from my Mac without a problem. It can be set to get it's IP address from DHCP as well, but then the IP address with theoretically change each time it powers up, no? There must be a way to use a Printer over a DHCP network.
Re: [newbie] printing
Dear All, I finally got my Epson Stylus Color printer calibrated through the Cups webadmin. The Kups and printerdrake in my 7.2 distro did not do the trick. Everything was OK with the printing except still a little too light. Is there a way to make it darker? Then, all of a sudden every couple of pages that I print out will print out on a grey background instead of white. Does anyone know how to correct this? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] printing
Marcia, I have the Epson Stylus Color 850. I took care of the light print quality by going to the 'Printer' icon on the desktop. Click on 'Properties' and 'Advanced'. You will find a folder called 'Extra' and a highlighted text after 'Quality'. When you click on the highlighted text, it will open up the options. Mine was originally 180x180. I went to 720x720. This feature is probably available somewhere else in KDE, but I haven't found it as yet. Barry :-) Marcia wrote: Dear All, I finally got my Epson Stylus Color printer calibrated through the Cups webadmin. The Kups and printerdrake in my 7.2 distro did not do the trick. Everything was OK with the printing except still a little too light. Is there a way to make it darker? Then, all of a sudden every couple of pages that I print out will print out on a grey background instead of white. Does anyone know how to correct this? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Printing with STAR OFFICE
Did you read also the text version of the Mandrakeuser.org document? The web pages are still not complete and only treat the installation/configuration of CUPS. An important point is, that you do not use the printer drivers of Star Office. Use the "Generic printer". This makes Star Office outputting PostScript and CUPS translates it to the printer-specific protocol. Set up the options for your print job in qtcups or xpp, but check whether Star Office uses the correct paper format. Till Ed Santiago wrote: The printer works great in those, however in StarOffice it doesnt print. I have changed the "connect" to qtcups and to xpp, when I try to print the qtcups interface comes up but it doesnt print. It says print job:x, (x being a number depending on how many times I try) and yet nothing happens. I have been reading through alot of past mail and the Mandrake user stuff but cant find anything that applies to this. I am not on a network and the printer is hooked up to lp0 parrell port on my computer.
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
Philip Trauring wrote: BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. In DrakConf you get printerdrake, the thing which searches the network for printers is kups. Here's a problem - It automatically scans the subnet for my external NIC, but the printer is connected to the internal NIC which I have set up to serve IPs using DHCP. I haven't configured the printer with a specific IP address since the rest of my network are Macs and they connect to the printer using appletalk and don't need an IP address. First you must give an IP address to your printer. See the printer's manual how to do so, Linux does TCP/IP networking and therefore it needs IP addresses for all network devixes which it wants to access. The port on which the printer listens is 9100 by default. Leave it on this value. Make sure that the printer allows Socket or AppSocket access. To let kups scan the other NIC do the sma as you have already done, but in the window where you can scan the network, click on "Settings" and change the IP address range to the internal network, then scan again. Or type the address and the port of the printer directly into the fields on the right. Any suggestions? How do I get it to scan my second NIC? Do I need to assign it an IP address first? How can I make sure the IP address doesn't change? As I told the IP address has to be configured in the printer, it stores it in a non-volatile memory and so it is conserved even if you turn off the printer. Till
Re: [newbie] printing
John, Try a right mouse click on the title bar at the top of the frame. You will find a menu item called 'Decoration'. If you open this up, it will display a list of optional styles. I haven't changed mine as yet. If I can't retrain my mouse to go left instead of right, I'll look at the alternatives. Barry John Kintree wrote: Thanks to Till, Barry, Marcia, and other friends, Running the web administration tool for CUPS finally solved my problems. I have an Epson Stylus Color 400, and was getting the faint, poorly calibrated output, also. For some reason, changing the settings within kups did not work for me; the settings kept returning to the default of 180x180. The changes I made with the web adminstration tool "stuck." There are other changes I've had difficulty getting to stick, such as background color and look n' feel style. When I use the Control Panel to make these changes, the changes do not apply. I'm still looking at a periwinkle color background and the 'x' to close button in the top left corner. I would really like to get the 'x' to close button in the top right corner. John
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. Here's a problem - It automatically scans the subnet for my external NIC, but the printer is connected to the internal NIC which I have set up to serve IPs using DHCP. I haven't configured the printer with a specific IP address since the rest of my network are Macs and they connect to the printer using appletalk and don't need an IP address. Any suggestions? How do I get it to scan my second NIC? Do I need to assign it an IP address first? How can I make sure the IP address doesn't change? Thanks, Philip Start "kups", Choose "Printer", "Add". Choose "AppSocket" (or "Socket") as backend and on the next screen click on "Scan". You printer will appear in the list field. Now you click on it and then on "Next". As driver you can choose either The "HP 4050" drivers offered (they print in PCL mode) or you click on "Have driver" to load the PPD file which came with the printer. Then you print in PostScript mode with all options which the printer also has in Windows, and 1200 dpi. Go also to http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html Till Philip Trauring wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. It's not clear to me how to do this. Technically the HP has a built-in print server, but I'm not sure how to connect to it from Mandrake. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Philip
Re: [newbie] Printing to print server with CUPS
Eddie Torres wrote: I tried setting up lpr but everytime I try to use printtool or printdrake it asks me for the cd and wants to install CUPS. To use LPD you must start "printerdrake --lpr" or you install the "printtool" from the contribs. But your problem is easier to solve with CUPS. So I am willing to give it a shot but need some help setting up a printer through a print server, it is a ip to ip connection ( 192.168.0.2 - PS, 192.168.0.1 - computer). How do I go about it? Start "kups", "Printer" - "Add" in the menu, "Socket" or "LPD" as backend (depends on the server, check its manual, "AppSocket" = "Socket") In case of "Socket" click on "Scan" and click on your printer which appears in the list window. In case of LPD enter the print server's IP in "Host" and the queue name "Queue" (the server boxes use "lp", "lpr", "PS" or similar, see manual). In both cases choose manufacturer and model afterwards, or in case of a native PostScript printer click on "Have driver" to install the PPD file which came with the printer. Enter the printer name and confirm your configuration and the printer appears in the main window of kups. Click with the right mouse button on it, choose "Configure printer""and set up the options for the desired printing quality, paper size, and so on. See also http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/#4th Till
Re: [newbie] printing
The best driver for your printer (Epson Stylus Color) is the
EPSON Stylus Color, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.0
when you have set up this driver, make sure that you put the resolution
to 360 or 720 dpi ("Configure Printer" button in
http://localhost:631/printers/). Set also paper size and type correctly.
To get the colours correct, log in as "root" and enter the command
calibrate-gimpprint
and follow the instructions on the screen.
Till
Marcia wrote:
Dear All, I finally got my printer to work through the web interface
admin. No other way would set it up. I think that my Kups admin does not
work correctly nor does my printerdrake. My printer works for Abiword
but does not print anything out for Kword. I tried to print out
something from the Advanced Editor and it did not work there, either.
Does anyone have any suggestions for making these work?
Also, the print quality is horrible. Too light and needs calibrating.
How can I fine tune this? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Printing
Which printer model do you use? Did you set up the printer options after installing the driver as I explained it to you? Note that the option settings get lost when one changes the driver. If your printer is an HP inkjet, note that the drivers with "Foomatic + cdj880" and "Foomatic + cdj890" do not work with the default settings. The "Normal" quality is broken. Use "Presentation" instead. Till Eddie Torres wrote: I got the printer to print but I got some garbage, I started to play with some of the drivers and now it doesn't print again when I went back to the original driver. Any Ideas?
Re: [newbie] printing
Dear All, I finally got my printer to work through the web interface admin. No other way would set it up. I think that my Kups admin does not work correctly nor does my printerdrake. My printer works for Abiword but does not print anything out for Kword. I tried to print out something from the Advanced Editor and it did not work there, either. Does anyone have any suggestions for making these work? Also, the print quality is horrible. Too light and needs calibrating. How can I fine tune this? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. I presume that you installed CUPS, with this I got it working anyway There are two ways in which you can do this: a) TCP/IP connection (printer independently on the network) For this you need to have the printer properly setup as a printserver (default it is not activated). You can do this through the LCD-panel on the printer. See the manual or the website of HP for more info on that. Once configured the printer you can need to now its hostname and on which TCP/IP port it is listening for print-requests. Select "Printer Configuration" in DrakConf. Select "Add" | Select "Remote Printer" | Select "Network printer (Socket)" Give the name of the printer (lp0, lp1 etc). The location description are just labels. Then give the hostname port of the printer. Last, choose the correct driver. The Laserjet4000 4050N are listed and will work perfectly. Done. b) Through a Windows print-server For this you need to know the server-name, the sharename of the printer and a valid user-account which has print-rights on the server. Select "Printer Configuration" in DrakConf. Select "Add" | Select "Remote Printer" | Select "SMB/Windows 95/98/NT" Give the name of the printer (lp0, lp1 etc). The location description are just labels. Then give the hostname of the server, it IP-address, the Share-name and the account information etc etc
Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network
Start "kups", Choose "Printer", "Add". Choose "AppSocket" (or "Socket") as backend and on the next screen click on "Scan". You printer will appear in the list field. Now you click on it and then on "Next". As driver you can choose either The "HP 4050" drivers offered (they print in PCL mode) or you click on "Have driver" to load the PPD file which came with the printer. Then you print in PostScript mode with all options which the printer also has in Windows, and 1200 dpi. Go also to http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html Till Philip Trauring wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. It's not clear to me how to do this. Technically the HP has a built-in print server, but I'm not sure how to connect to it from Mandrake. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Philip
RE: [newbie]printing
Title: RE: [newbie]printing Or, when you select the object or file you want, hold down the shift key and then click, you should get a save to box that will start the download to a location like /home/dennis/ filename. That is the quickest way I know of to start a download. You can change the save location also. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of Dale Kosan Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 1:16 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie]printing You are using Netscape I bet,right click on the file or link and choose save as.The other way,as you have found out is not easy to understand.After all the code is done,go up to file,save as and you are done.Just easier to right click... - Original Message - From: Marcia [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 13, 2000 8:29 AM Subject: Re: [newbie]printing Dear All, I went to the site to download Cups and I got alot of computer language or code printout to my screen instead of an RPM package that I expected. I went to a site for Acroread 4.02 rpm and the same thing happened. What do I need to do to correct this? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie]printing
Dale Kosan wrote: You are using Netscape I bet,right click on the file or link and choose save as.The other way,as you have found out is not easy to understand.After all the code is done,go up to file,save as and you are done.Just easier to right click... You can also shift left mouse-click as well, and it will blow up a fileselector box... -- /\ DarkLord \/
Re: [newbie]printing
In Netscape press and hold the shift key while you click the url to download the file. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I went to the site to download Cups and I got alot of computer language or code printout to my screen instead of an RPM package that I expected. I went to a site for Acroread 4.02 rpm and the same thing happened. What do I need to do to correct this? Thank you. Marcia
Re: [newbie] printing too light
When you are using a GIMP-Print driver, then it is a bug of GIMP-Print
(gimp-print.sourceforge.net). I have already made a new RPM package of
the fixed version 4.02, this will be available soon.
A quick fix is using an alternative driver, try
HP LaserJet 3, Foomatic + ljet3
HP LaserJet 3D, Foomatic + ljet3d (if you have a duplex unit)
HP LaserJet Series, CUPS v1.1
Another thing to adjust the output is using the "Brightness" and "Gamma"
controls of CUPS ("Advanced" tab in the "Options" dialog of xpp.
Till
malkajef wrote:
Printing on my HP III in Mandrake 7.2 comes out very faint on the paper. How
can I adjust this?
Thanks
--
Jeff Malka ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Registered Linux user 183185
Re: [newbie]printing
Till et al: I've got a download 7.2 workstation (single computer/user) recommended install going here (good job!) and having a couple of problems with the printing. Cups is installed and loads at boot (message: Loading CUPS printing system) and cupsd shows up in kpm. My Canon BJC-2000 has 3 entries in PrinterDrake: Foomatic+stp, Foomatic+BJC600, and CUPS+GIMP. All will print a test page but only +BJC600 prints color, so I go with that one. It will then print a Netscape web page or kword document, until I reboot, and it won't print unless I run PrinterDrake again. I have spent the weekend following the lists and browsing the web but most docs seem to refer to networking, which I don't have, so I have tried different things that seemed close to my case. When I call for kups, it usually justs goes to sleep after spending .71 sec loading into 11.60% of my 64M of memory (I guess: these numbers are from kpm). One time kups came up and told me there was no parallel port on my machine (my printer is on lp0 which works in PrinterDrake) and it failed to add the printer. I have also tried loading kupsdconf which goes to sleep in 1.36 sec in 11.92% of memory, outputting as follows: QObject::Connect: No such slot CupsdServerSecurityPage::CleanupEventFilter() QObject::Connect: (sender name: 'unnamed') QObject::Connect: (receiver name: 'unnamed') lpd, lpr, and rhs-printfilters are not installed. I installed ghostscript-module-SVGAlib and ghostscript-utils as they were the only rpms, besides the sambas, in the list below that were not installed. I figured I was not needing Samba as I have only one machine and I can mount my windows files via kfm but I could be wrong. I tried to get to http://localhost:631/ but the browser stalled. I was able to get there in 7.1 and, frankly, I was kind of overwhelmed by all the network references, so I am not so concerned about not seeing that again, unless I really have to :-p Guess that's enough for now. Thanks for all the work on a really swell distro. Rolf Pedersen Till Kamppeter wrote: The installation of CUPS also includes GIMP-Print, very sophisticated drivers for colour inkjets, especially Epson. Look when you install your printer after you have installed CUPS, choose an entry in the printer list with "CUPS+GIMP-print v4.0". After the installation you can call "calibrate-gimpprint" to calibrate the colours. Instructions for the installation of CUPS see below, Till Stop LPD by /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd stop and backup your /etc/printcap file. Remove the "lpr" package and related packages: rpm -e --nodeps lpr rpm -e --nodeps rhs-printfilters ... Download the following RPM packages from a download site for Linux Mandrake 7.2 (or copy them from the first CD of Linux Mandrake 7.2), DO NOT download the packages from the Cooker: cups cups-drivers ghostscript ghostscript-module-X ghostscript-module-SVGALIB ghostscript-utils xpp qtcups samba samba-common samba-client Install the "cups" package with rpm -Uvh --nodeps cups-1.1.4*.rpm Set links for easier access to the CUPS shell commands: cd /usr/bin ln -s lpr-cups lpr ln -s lpq-cups lpq ln -s lprm-cups lprm cd /usr/sbin ln -s lpc-cups lpc Now install all the other downloaded packages with rpm -Uvh package file name Start CUPS with chkconfig --add cups service cups start Go to http://localhost:631/ to get to the web interface for administration of CUPS and to the documentation of CUPS. marcia wrote: Dear All, Whenever I print with Linux I get a garbled couple of sentences about every 5 or so lines. This does not happen with Windows. My printer is an EPSON Stylus color. Is there anyway to fix this? If I downloaded the cups printing software would this fix it? I have Mandrake 7. complete so what would be a good cups download? Thank you for your help. Sincerely. Marcia
Re: [newbie]printing
The installation of CUPS also includes GIMP-Print, very sophisticated drivers for colour inkjets, especially Epson. Look when you install your printer after you have installed CUPS, choose an entry in the printer list with "CUPS+GIMP-print v4.0". After the installation you can call "calibrate-gimpprint" to calibrate the colours. Instructions for the installation of CUPS see below, Till Stop LPD by /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd stop and backup your /etc/printcap file. Remove the "lpr" package and related packages: rpm -e --nodeps lpr rpm -e --nodeps rhs-printfilters ... Download the following RPM packages from a download site for Linux Mandrake 7.2 (or copy them from the first CD of Linux Mandrake 7.2), DO NOT download the packages from the Cooker: cups cups-drivers ghostscript ghostscript-module-X ghostscript-module-SVGALIB ghostscript-utils xpp qtcups samba samba-common samba-client Install the "cups" package with rpm -Uvh --nodeps cups-1.1.4*.rpm Set links for easier access to the CUPS shell commands: cd /usr/bin ln -s lpr-cups lpr ln -s lpq-cups lpq ln -s lprm-cups lprm cd /usr/sbin ln -s lpc-cups lpc Now install all the other downloaded packages with rpm -Uvh package file name Start CUPS with chkconfig --add cups service cups start Go to http://localhost:631/ to get to the web interface for administration of CUPS and to the documentation of CUPS. marcia wrote: Dear All, Whenever I print with Linux I get a garbled couple of sentences about every 5 or so lines. This does not happen with Windows. My printer is an EPSON Stylus color. Is there anyway to fix this? If I downloaded the cups printing software would this fix it? I have Mandrake 7. complete so what would be a good cups download? Thank you for your help. Sincerely. Marcia
Re: [newbie] printing from kedit
Jeff Malka wrote: Thank you. I will check out the man pages. I heard of a2ps. How would one implement it to use it quasi transparently? I'm a newbie still trying to keep afloat. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - - 'enscript -2rG' gives you two columns and fancy headers in landscape. - 'enscript -2rG -font=Arial@8 See 'man enscript' and http://www.iki.fi/~mtr/genscript/ You might also take a look at 'a2ps' (try freshmeat) as an alternative I got it so I could print page numbers on Netscape pages. I'll locate the message etc I got about it for that purpose, however it's really worthwhile getting the manual as well. Cheers -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] printing from kedit
Jeff Malka wrote: Thank you very much. Does it do the trick?? Cheers Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] printing from kedit I've attached a gawk script file. I use it in conjunction with a2ps and gv. . -- ICQ# 89345394 Mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] "The number of UNIX installations has grown to 10, with more expected" (The UNIX Programmer's Manual, 2nd Edition, June 1972.)
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
As far as I can tell at this time when I have a printing problem it has been with the defaults that application has for printing AND nothing to do with printcap, lpd, lpr, lpc, etc, etc, etc. To say the I think, as I interpret your msg, that the problem is that you don't have the filter for lpr setup proper. lpr is going to look for the definition in printcap (lp) and that label should point to a filter for your particular printer. Did you select such a filter when you did the installation? You're asked whether you want to set up a printer and from what I can see what the install program does is put a proper filter into /var/spool/lpd/lp and they name it filter. All I did was select the type of inkjet I had (it actually auto-detected it so I just pressed CR) and it not only dumped the proper filter in place, it stuck a comment in printcap saying what lp was set for. least I am not particularly impressed with this bit of KDE/Linux/Mandrake or where ever it may fall. I do not consider it to You're probably smarter than I am but when things like this don't work it generally turns out that it's been my understanding that's the limiting factor. be a high expectation for an application to figure out what printers a system has available. If it can figure out it needs lpr, then lpr is simply a way to give any application a known hook to the printer. That's what printcap is for. You can add multiple filters (with separate definitions) and you can add multiple names for the same definition. This includes setting up multiple definitions/filters for the same print device (eg - forced BW, forced COLOR, economy mode, etc). somewhere along the line it should present me with a choice of printers listed in printcap. There was one app that did present me with a choice, though I do not remember which one it was. Choices are presented during installation and test prints are permitted. It's possible that you simply don't have any of this set up. My printcap shouts loud and clear the type of printer I'm printing to and you can read it with any editor. Cheers --- Larry
Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE
Thanks for sharing Dennis. I'd try two things. First, just put "lp:" in
front of the label "laserjet". I haven't done this with Linux but other
versions of UNIX I've used allow this syntax (multiple labels). If that
doesn't work, just replicate the laserjet definition and call it
"lp" instead of "laserjet". This should cause lpr to send output just as
lpr -P laserjet does. Hope this helps.
Cheers --- Larry
Here is my printcap:
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE ljet4 600x600 letter {} LaserJet4 Default 1
laserjet:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=laserjet:\
:rp=raw:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/laserjet/filter:
