On Sun, Jun 25, 2006 at 11:18:14AM -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > The situation after recent Etch dist-upgrades of Xsane and Cups: > > The following Cups commands > > lp -d br printtest.txt > > and > > lpr -P br printtest.txt > > work where br is defined by Cups as a Brothers HL-730 laser printer on > the lan attached to a Sarge box. The lp command reports a job number, > the lpr command does not. > > If I enter the first of the above commands in the Xsane > Preferences/Setup/Copy/Command line and try to copy I get a broken pipe > message. > > If I enter the second of the above commands in the Xsane > Preferences/Setup/Copy/Command line and try to copy I get garbage - > i.e. the printer prints pages of random characters. Apparently > ghostscript is bypassed. > > I also have an HP DeskJet 6540 on the lan attached to an Etch box. It > was the default printer. The recent Etch dist-upgrade of Cups reassigned > its address to usb://HP/Deskjet%206500?serialMY59M4Q1PW049X and reports > the default printer formerly known as hp as failed. Nonetheless the > commands lp and lpr printtest.txt work as describe above. > > If I run Xsane Copy with the default "new printer" - the only printer > shown after the upgrade - it uses the HP Deskjet. > > Bottom Line: I can't use my Brothers printer with xsane and I can't > customize the setup of the HP Deskjet. > > If anyone has had any luck defining printers in the Xsane > Preferences/Setup/Copy/Command line I would appreciate help in resolving > my problem. > > Tom George > After this morning's dist-upgrade (June 27) the lpr -P br command works though multiple copies produced blank pages after the fourth copy.
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