Re: Printing Accounting

2001-09-14 Thread Didier Link
On ven, 2001-09-14 at 09:30, Sébastien MEI wrote: Salut la liste, Salut tout seul !! Je cherche une solution de printing accounting (impression La seul solution de partage d'impression en réseau un peu évoluée que je connaisse se trouve sur [http://www.cups.org] ... Le soft est libre mais les

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-12 Thread Joe Bouchard
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0400, Kyle Girard wrote: Somewhere in between now and about hmm a month ago my ability to print has ceased. Here's some background info: Distribution: sid (current as of this morning) kernel 2.4.9 Printer: hp720c I am using magicfilter with

Re: printing

2001-09-11 Thread Brian Stults
Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: Firstly, is there a recommended way of doing printing with Debian? I see various mentions of LPD, LPRng, CUPS, PDQ and printtool, and there are a large number of printer-related packages in the archive, many of which conflict with one another, but I can't find a

Re: printing

2001-09-10 Thread Jason Boxman
On Monday 10 September 2001 05:03 pm, Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: Firstly, is there a recommended way of doing printing with Debian? I see various mentions of LPD, LPRng, CUPS, PDQ and printtool, and there are a large number of printer-related packages in the archive, many of which conflict

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Hi. | | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to | share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | Hi. | | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to | share the printer through the

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread dman
On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | | Hi. | | | | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 | | machine. My printer is

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 01:54:57PM -0500, Oleksandr Moskalenko wrote: | * dman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: | On Fri, Sep 07, 2001 at 12:53:45PM -0400, Steve Dondley wrote: | | Hi. | | | | I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and

Re: Printing files through network

2001-09-07 Thread Wayne Topa
Steve Dondley([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is reported to have said: Hi. I've got a Linksys 4 port router which is serving my Linux box and a Win98 machine. My printer is connected to the Win98 machine. Is it possible to share the printer through the network so that the Linux box can print

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread ktb
On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 11:16:42AM -0400, Kyle Girard wrote: Somewhere in between now and about hmm a month ago my ability to print has ceased. Here's some background info: Distribution: sid (current as of this morning) kernel 2.4.9 Printer: hp720c I am using magicfilter with

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread Kyle Girard
Try - # kill -9 741I can kill it no problem but when I restart it I get: /etc/init.d/lpd restart Stopping printer spooler: lpd not running. Starting printer spooler: lpd. Have you tried clearing the queue with - # lprm ?Yep I run it and it just sits there for a while and then returns

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread W. Paul Mills
Anything showing up in /var/log/lp-errs? -- * For God so loved the world that He gave his only begotten Son, * * that whoever believes in Him should not perish...John 3:16 *

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread Kyle Girard
nope it's empty On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 18:37, W. Paul Mills wrote: Anything showing up in /var/log/lp-errs?

Re: Printing go bye-bye

2001-09-05 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Kyle Girard: nope it's empty On Wed, 2001-09-05 at 18:37, W. Paul Mills wrote: Anything showing up in /var/log/lp-errs? I seem to rememeber having this problem at some point after an upgrade, but unfortunately I can't remember the specifics of how I eventually fixed it.

Re: printing ?

2001-08-27 Thread R1nso13
sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but: the lexmark Z series are totally useless in linux. they rely heavily on windows drivers to control them. this is good for the windows user because the drivers handle a lot of the printers functions (like Linus Torvalds new CPU that uses software to run

Re: Printing With CUPS

2001-07-24 Thread Faheem Mitha
On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, Ben Hearsum wrote: I recently installed the CUPS printing system and have been futile in my attempts to get it working properly. I downloaded the source and installed that fine, added my printer via command line but when i send jobs to it using lp or lpr they just

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-19 Thread John Galt
On Thu, 19 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello all, Is it possible to print from Linux on a printer attached to a Windows machine? How could i print on this printer? Any suggestions? Samba. Make sure that the windoze printer is shared, btw... Thanks! Regards, Matthias -- The early

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-19 Thread Oleksandr Moskalenko
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello all, Is it possible to print from Linux on a printer attached to a Windows machine? How could i print on this printer? Any suggestions? Thanks! It is a trivial task to set up CUPS to use smb (Samba) for such printing to it. Read the

RE: printing

2001-07-06 Thread Jeremy Gaddis
If it were me, I'd install the lprng package, then install magicfilter which will pretty much set up your printer configuration file (/etc/printcap). If it's a fairly standard, supported printer, magicfilter should have no problems with it. j. -- Jeremy L. Gaddis [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: printing

2001-07-06 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: printing Date: Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:05:04PM -0600 In reply to:Jeff Conder Quoting Jeff Conder([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Newbie here... I've used unix systems for years and am certainly not an expert. I'm new to Linux and just installed it on my pc. Why can't I print?

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi Larry, I CCd this to the debian-user list in order to preserve the thread. On 07/02/01 23:16:38 -0500, Lance Simmons wrote: On Mon, Jul 02, 2001 at 08:35:35PM -0700, Mark Wagnon wrote: My parallel port is still being detected at boot, here's the excerpt from dmesg: parport0:

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-03 Thread Norbert Froese
I CCd this to the debian-user list in order to preserve the thread. I'm able to print text and pdf files, but I'm having some problems with ps. I'll look into that tomorrow. At least I know I'm not going crazy. Thank you so much for CCing this to the list. I have been completely baffled

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-03 Thread Mark Wagnon
On 07/02/01 23:11:38 -0700, Norbert Froese wrote: Thank you so much for CCing this to the list. You're welcome. I'd figured there'd be lurkers interested. I can't be the only one with the same problem (can I?). I have been completely baffled as to why I could not get so much as a sound out

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-02 Thread Mark Wagnon
Hi all, again: This is starting to drive me crazy. I decided to give CUPS a spin, since I haven't been able to get plain text files to print with the lpd/magicfilter combo. Anyway, before installing CUPS (maybe sooner, but I have tried to print anything since playing with this yesterday), I was

Re: Printing Question

2001-07-01 Thread Mark Wagnon
Thanks for the response! On 07/01/01 11:05:45 +0800, Lamer wrote: install progeny, it does all I've had it installed once, but I didn't like it. I may not be that bright of a guy, but I still like to look under the hood and get my hands dirty. and then upgrade to woody Well, that's where

Re: Printing Question

2001-06-30 Thread Lamer
my 2 cents would be : install progeny, it does all and then upgrade to woody -- k h a o s * lamer new name, new look, new ftp: linux.dyn.dhs.org (change FOUR letter) upload something before downloading, or your class C IP banned. - Original Message - From: Mark Wagnon [EMAIL

Re: printing to a windows shared printer with smbprint

2001-06-26 Thread Karsten Heymann
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:57:50AM +0200 or thereabouts, Jeroen Valcke wrote: I installed smbprint to be able to print to a printer attached to a windows pc. However it doens't work Anybody an idea what I did wrong. I found some doc's on the net.

Re: printing to a windows shared printer with smbprint

2001-06-24 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sun, Jun 24, 2001 at 11:57:50AM +0200, Jeroen Valcke wrote: I installed smbprint to be able to print to a printer attached to a windows pc. However it doens't work Anybody an idea what I did wrong. Well I've said this before, the mistake is to have the printer attached to the windows

Re: Printing with Debian

2001-06-22 Thread Joost Kooij
On Sat, Jun 23, 2001 at 01:11:08AM +0200, Raffaele Sandrini wrote: Hi Can somebody give me a (very) short overview how pronting works und No. (well at least that was short). which of them must i use and for what? Install lprng and magicfilter. Configure magicfilter. Maybe tweak it just

Re: Printing with Debian

2001-06-22 Thread Philippe Clérié
Samba will then hand it to lprng, which hands it to magicfilter, which should notice that the file is in the printer's native language (usually some form of PCL) and just send it straight back to lprng, which finally Then you don't need magicfilter, right! If all that's being done is to

Re: Printing with Debian

2001-06-22 Thread D-Man
On Fri, Jun 22, 2001 at 08:35:24PM -0500, Philippe Clérié wrote: | Samba will then hand it to lprng, which hands it to magicfilter, | which should notice that the file is in the printer's native | language (usually some form of PCL) and just send it straight back | to lprng, which finally | |

Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-31 Thread Matthew Sackman
You could also try removing /etc/printcap and linking it to /etc/printcap.cups as that will make the cups printer definitions become the default ones for your system. I use lp -d LaserJet just to be on the safe side, though with only one printer set up you don't really need the -d LaserJet bit.

Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-30 Thread Cameron Matheson
Hey, I have to use 'lp' instead of 'lpr' when I use cups. Cameron Matheson On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:10:30AM +0200, Alberto García wrote: When I try to print a file from the shell ( lpr file ) the job is queued and I fail to print, but using startoffice or mozilla, everything I intend to

Re: Printing using CUPS from the command line.

2001-05-30 Thread Mike Cook
You should install the cupsys-bsd package, then cups will print with the lp or lpr commands. Mike On Wednesday 30 May 2001 07:21, Cameron Matheson wrote: Hey, I have to use 'lp' instead of 'lpr' when I use cups. Cameron Matheson On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:10:30AM +0200, Alberto García

Re: Printing problems with pdq Kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-18 Thread Andrea Vettorello
Volker Schlecht wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:19:49PM +0200, Volker Schlecht wrote: Kernel Versions: 2.4.2 2.4.4 pdq: 2.2.1-4 on Woody When I tell pdq to print a given (Postscript) document, it tells me that it doesn't know how to print this filetype and cancels. According to my

Re: Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-16 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 04:51:15PM +, Victor wrote: Well, Ethan, I tried the same solution and it worked but, let's face it, it's a somewhat makeshift solution! Is there anyone out there able to give the right hint? whether it's the _right_ hint... I'm no gimp guru, have hardly

Re: Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-14 Thread Ethan Benson
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:06PM +, Victor wrote: I've installed the Gimp 1.1 under debian 2.2r3 and set my printer up by means of magicfilter. Now, I'm at a loss for printing with Gimp. When I ask Gimp to print, it shows a menu in which the buttons File* and setup are present.

Re: Printing with the Gimp

2001-05-14 Thread Victor
Well, Ethan, I tried the same solution and it worked but, let's face it, it's a somewhat makeshift solution! Is there anyone out there able to give the right hint? Vittorio On Monday 14 May 2001 12:44, Ethan Benson wrote: On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 01:15:06PM +, Victor wrote: I've

Re: Printing problems with pdq Kernel 2.4.4

2001-05-14 Thread Volker Schlecht
On Mon, May 14, 2001 at 09:19:49PM +0200, Volker Schlecht wrote: Kernel Versions: 2.4.2 2.4.4 pdq: 2.2.1-4 on Woody When I tell pdq to print a given (Postscript) document, it tells me that it doesn't know how to print this filetype and cancels. According to my boot messages though, the

Re: Printing text

2001-05-02 Thread David Wright
Quoting Stephen E. Hargrove ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): I'm still chasing my text problem. I've installed magicfilter, and it prints postscript files just fine. However, text files suffer from the dreaded stair-step problem. Following is my printcap file. Any suggestions would be most

Re: printing text

2001-04-28 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: printing text Date: Fri, Apr 27, 2001 at 03:29:05PM -0500 In reply to:Stephen E. Hargrove Quoting Stephen E. Hargrove([EMAIL PROTECTED]): -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 i can print from wordperfect (the MS version running under win4lin and the linux

Re: printing text

2001-04-28 Thread Andre Berger
* Stephen E. Hargrove [EMAIL PROTECTED], 2001-04-28 00:45 +0200: i can print from wordperfect (the MS version running under win4lin and the linux version), but i can't print text documents from the command line, pine, etc. Here's my /etc/printcap: [...] Maybe the a2ps package is for you?

Re: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Stephen E. Hargrove
Nevermind, I figured it out, and I'm (finally) printing again. One more question, though. I keep getting the following after /every/ job prints: User: stephen Host: firestarter Class: firestarter Job: stdin How do I shut this off? I've got :sh: and :tr: in my printcap, but it just keeps

RE: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 3:59 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Printing I'm having problems getting my printer going. It was working, then I had to reinstall, and now I can't get it

RE: Printing

2001-04-11 Thread Lewis, James M.
-Original Message- From: Stephen E. Hargrove [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, April 11, 2001 4:15 PM To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Printing Nevermind, I figured it out, and I'm (finally) printing again. One more question, though. I keep getting

Re: Printing

2001-03-28 Thread Carel Fellinger
I know next to nothing of printing, so stupid ideas ahead, but... On Thu, Mar 29, 2001 at 01:32:06PM -0600, Stephen E. Hargrove wrote: ... Class: firestarter Class looks like your using cups? I thought cups didn't use /etc/printcap, but its own config files? lp|hp2100|HP LaserJet 2100TN:\

Re: Printing and some weirdness...

2001-03-26 Thread Ilya Martynov
SM == Shannon Menkveld [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: SM Hello, all. SM I have recently installed Debian Potato, I only have SM the 1st iso image available. My problem is that, due to the SM lack of automated configuration tools (this is a good thing, SM BTW, it forces

Re: Printing and some weirdness...

2001-03-26 Thread Carel Fellinger
On Mon, Mar 26, 2001 at 09:35:13AM -0800, Shannon Menkveld wrote: ... Printing system is lpd, printer is an HP DeskJet 612C. I have absolutely NO idea what to put into the /etc/printcap file to allow this printer to work. The Debian user's guide refers briefly to a tool called

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-23 Thread Robert Cymbala
--- Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bottom of the page (should be one). I have no idea

Re: printing with CUPS/Samba

2001-03-22 Thread Ramin Motakef
Bernhard Wesely [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hi List, Ich have a problem printing from a Windows machine to a Samba-server running CUPS as printer daemon. The printer connected is a HP LaserJet 4. CUPS accepts the printjob from the NT machine, and knows what filters to apply. But then CUPS

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread kmself
on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Keith Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bottom of the

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Jim McCloskey
Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated | by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page | (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bottom of the page | (should be one). This kind of thing can be

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Keith Johnson
On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 11:03:43PM -0800, kmself@ix.netcom.com wrote: on Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 10:22:33PM -0800, Keith Johnson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Hello, I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Andre Berger
* Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED], 20010321 11:19 +0100: I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document generated by latex. Problem is, the print starts right at the top of the page (no margin) and leaves a two inch margin at the bottom of the page (should be one). In

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Sebastiaan
Have you tried to set the paper size with dvips? dvips -t a4 foo.dvi -o foo.ps Does gv show no margins too? Greetz, Sebastiaan On Wed, 21 Mar 2001, Andre Berger wrote: * Keith Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED], 20010321 11:19 +0100: I am using debian potato and am trying to print a document

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Jan Ulrich Hasecke
Hallo Keith! I have no idea where to even look for a solution. Is it in dvips, latex, lprng, magicfilters, printcap? Try texconfig as root and set the offset in the dvips section. HTH juh -- Literaturnobelpreis für Kohl http://www.sudelbuch.de/2000/20001121.html

Re: Printing with dvips (print too close to top of page)

2001-03-21 Thread Richard C. Cobbe
Lo, on Wednesday, March 21, Jan Ulrich Hasecke did write: Hallo Keith! I have no idea where to even look for a solution. Is it in dvips, latex, lprng, magicfilters, printcap? Try texconfig as root and set the offset in the dvips section. This will fix the problem, yes. For help in

Re: Printing problems using CUPS

2001-03-21 Thread jens
When you look at the http cups interface and add a printer, the second item you choose is the port. If the ports are not listed THEN: Check which version of cups you are running (cups manual has the version number on th efront page. You get to it via the html interface and 'help' If the version

Re: Printing through Samba

2001-03-18 Thread Osamu Aoki
I do not know much about Samba nor lpd, but it was very easy. Use default samba configuration and install lpd with one printcap set to do printing with out filtering. That was all needed. Can you access Linux drive from windows by user mode with password. Anyway, GS filtering is not needed

Re: printing pdf containing font not recognised by ps printer

2001-03-15 Thread Mark Mackenzie
I have a document that contains fonts that are unrecognisable to a postscript printer (hplj2100tn) Just in case anyone else has this problem, pdftops from the xpdf package seems to fix this (as apposed to pdf2ps from gs). Mark

Re: Printing Problems-SOLVED

2001-03-01 Thread hammack
I, [EMAIL PROTECTED], also want to set up my Exson Stylus Color 600. How did you get it going. And yes I would like the script. thanks John - Original Message - From: Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 5:20 AM Subject: Re

Re: Printing Problems-SOLVED

2001-02-28 Thread Dale Morris
I was able to get this working with a script that one of the list members supplied me with. If you need it please email me and I will send it to you. Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been installing debian most all day, so I'm probably missing something really obvious here, but I'm

Re: Printing Problems

2001-02-27 Thread Harald Thingelstad
I've found magicfilterconfig to be quite reliable. Primitive but reliable. And, I can't seem to get printtool to work either. At least it fails at setting up my local Canon BJ30 printer. It works fine with the BJ600 driver in magicfilter. Harald

Re: Printing Problems

2001-02-26 Thread hammack
My problem also with an Epson SC 600. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message - From: Dale Morris [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user@lists.debian.org Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 8:46 PM Subject: Printing Problems I've been installing debian most all day, so I'm probably missing

Re: Printing

2001-02-19 Thread SquadBoy
I would suggest that you take a look at www.linuxprinting.com and think about using PDQ much easier to set up IMHO. Sergio Enrique Schvezov wrote: i'm trying to configure printing 4 my system (potator0), i believe it's in the daemon (not sure) because the cat thing that apsfilter does prints

Re: Printing

2001-02-19 Thread Christopher Mosley
I originally tried lprng. When it didn't work I tried the smaller .deb package lpr (it worked). You must remove lprng to install lpr, if you want to try this. Also make sure /etc/printcap has the right device I think it changed from slink. Also check out boot messages regarding parallel port and

Re: Printing woes

2001-02-11 Thread Osamu Aoki
Check http://www.linuxprinting.org/ You should be able to configure manually with this info. Also try printtool in testing. It works with LPRNG (Not with BSD yet despite message). Need to edit /etc/init.d/lprng at this moment. Now uniprint drivers works too. Canon can use old driver and

Re: printing to motd

2001-01-27 Thread sena
On 27/01/2001 at 00:58 -0500, RAccess wrote: Hello. I would like know how I can print quota information into the motd for every user. Since we are talking about appending to motd, how can fortune be appended as well? They should both work along the same lines, just quota system would be

Re: printing to motd

2001-01-27 Thread John Galt
echo `quota -v` `/usr/games/fortune` /etc/motd On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, RAccess wrote: Hello. I would like know how I can print quota information into the motd for every user. Since we are talking about appending to motd, how can fortune be appended as well? They should both work along the same

Re: printing to motd

2001-01-27 Thread RAccess
On Fri, 26 Jan 2001, John Galt wrote: echo `quota -v` `/usr/games/fortune` /etc/motd On Sat, 27 Jan 2001, RAccess wrote: Hello. I would like know how I can print quota information into the motd for every user. Since we are talking about appending to motd, how can fortune be appended

Re: printing to motd

2001-01-27 Thread sena
On 27/01/2001 at 10:34 -0500, RAccess wrote: edit /etc/motd. Now next up, I have to clean up the output from 'quota'. Something along the lines of: You have used 40.2Mb of your quota of 500Mb (hard limit: 510Mb) I don't use quotas, so I don't know if this is correct: #!/bin/sh set `quota |

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread Bob Underwood
On my system, to get around this situation, I installed the paraport modules during the initial install and used modconf later to add lp. bob On Wed, 17 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: I have just installed potato on a machine which happily ran slink before. During the install it refused to

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread Doug Hespe
Thanks Sebastiaan and Mike: insmod lp.o did the trick. My next task will be to work out a way of getting this to happen automatically on boot-up, probably in one of the rc scripts. regards, Doug.

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread mike polniak
Doug Hespe wrote: Thanks Sebastiaan and Mike: insmod lp.o did the trick. My next task will be to work out a way of getting this to happen automatically on boot-up, probably in one of the rc scripts. For kernel modules to load at boot time check out /etc/modules in man modules. And

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-18 Thread Doug Hespe
Thanks, Bob. When I looked at modconf it indicated that the lp module was now in the kernel--probably because I followed Sebastiaan and Mike's suggestions. My next task will be to reboot and see if it stays there. Regards, Doug. On Thu, Jan 18, 2001 at 11:39:38AM -0500, Bob Underwood wrote:

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-17 Thread Sebastiaan
Hi, perhaps lp.o is compiled in the kernel. In order to print you need (on an ordinary i386): parport.o parport_pc.o lp.o Try insmodding there three (in this order) and see what it does. Hope it helps, Sebastiaan On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Doug Hespe wrote: I have just installed potato on a

Re: printing broken in potato install

2001-01-17 Thread mike polniak
At bootup, if the printer is on, parport detects the printer correctly-- see attatched dmesg log-- but when I try to cat testfile /dev/lp0 or lp1, bash complains that no such devices exist. You need the lp module. Do lsmod to see if its loaded. If not try modprobe. I am assuming

Re: Printing to remote ps printer

2001-01-11 Thread Mark A. Bialik
I think you need to put a \ character after the :rp=raw: Mark Mark Leary wrote: I'm having problems printing plain text to a remote postscript printer... Here is my printcap entry: myprinter|HP LaserJet 4000TN in room E52-242:\ :sh:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/myprinter:\

Re: Printing to remote ps printer

2001-01-11 Thread Mark Leary
That fixed it... Don't know how I missed that one. Thanks :) On Thu, 11 Jan 2001, Mark A. Bialik wrote: I think you need to put a \ character after the :rp=raw: Mark Mark Leary wrote: I'm having problems printing plain text to a remote postscript printer... Here is my printcap

Re: Printing to legal paper (urgent help needed)

2000-12-16 Thread Arcady Genkin
Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ag psnup -plegal -Pletter -10 report.ps /tmp/rep10.ps First of all, have you tried it without the -Pletter in there? Yes, I put it in there later in hope that it would make a difference. There's not too much output from apropos paper -- you might

Re: Printing to legal paper (urgent help needed)

2000-12-16 Thread Dave Thayer
On Sat, Dec 16, 2000 at 09:55:33AM -0500, Arcady Genkin wrote: Chris Gray [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ag psnup -plegal -Pletter -10 report.ps /tmp/rep10.ps First of all, have you tried it without the -Pletter in there? Yes, I put it in there later in hope that it would make a

Re: Printing to legal paper (urgent help needed)

2000-12-12 Thread Chris Gray
Arcady Genkin writes: ag Hello: ag I *really* need to print a document to a legal-size paper. I ag formatted a document using psnup to fit 10 pages on one side: ag psnup -plegal -Pletter -10 report.ps /tmp/rep10.ps First of all, have you tried it without the -Pletter in

Re: Printing in Woody

2000-11-30 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Printing in Woody Date: Wed, Nov 29, 2000 at 03:27:53PM -0600 In reply to:Kelly Corbin Quoting Kelly Corbin([EMAIL PROTECTED]): After upgrading to Woody, (and not changing anything) I can't print correctly anymore. I used magicfilterconfig to setup /etc/printcap

Re: Printing in Woody

2000-11-29 Thread Adam Shand
After upgrading to Woody, (and not changing anything) I can't print correctly anymore. I used magicfilterconfig to setup /etc/printcap using the HP laserjet4l driver. The first page is like: %PS-Adobe-3.0 having just discovered both cups and pdq i would recommend one of them. pdq (and the

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Debian User Don Cavaiani
Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still doesn't work. Matthew Dalton wrote: Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: I have just upgraded to potato. My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink. but

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Bob Nielsen
This may or may not be relevant, but I recently had a lot of similar problems with lpr in woody. I replaced it with lprng and my printing problems disappeared. On Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 06:38:46PM -0600, Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Timmy Douglas
Yes, Matt, I found that out and made the change. Actually, I deleted /etc/printcap and rebuilt it via magicfilter and it looks ok now but still doesn't work. here is what i do: - make sure you have parport, parport_pc, and lp in your kernel. - make sure you have all the suggested programs

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-13 Thread Matthew Dalton
Debian User Don Cavaiani wrote: I have just upgraded to potato. My hpdj500c woreked OK B/4 on slink. but now I get the message Waiting for lp to become ready. I don't see anything in dmesg about the printer daemon being started. Did I not configure this properly? If you changed

Re: Printing problem

2000-11-12 Thread Stefan Janecek
In a galaxy not too far away, Paul spoke on Sat, Nov 11, 2000 at 05:01:58PM -0500: Hi everybody, I am having problems getting my printing working. When I try to print I get this error message Hi everybody, I am having a problem getting my printer working. I have upgraded from Corel

Re: Printing under Debian..

2000-11-12 Thread Ron Farrer
Paul Schulz ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: Greetings, Hello; A question about printing under Debian.. How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get this to work. Depends on what you want to do

Re: Printing under Debian..

2000-11-12 Thread David Z Maze
Paul Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was PS Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get PS this to work. You probably want a print spooler (either lpr or lprng) and the magicfilter package.

Re: Printing under Debian..

2000-11-12 Thread Andrew Dwight Dixon
David Z Maze wrote: Paul Schulz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: PS How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was PS Redhat) which did all the magic. What packages/setup do I need to get PS this to work. You probably want a print spooler (either lpr or lprng) and the

Re: Printing under Debian..

2000-11-12 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: Printing under Debian.. Date: Mon, Nov 13, 2000 at 11:59:04AM +1030 In reply to:Paul Schulz Quoting Paul Schulz([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Greetings, A question about printing under Debian.. How does print filtering work under Debian. I had a system (which was

Re: Printing from browser

2000-10-19 Thread Kerstin Hoef-Emden
Hi, On Wed, 18 Oct 2000, Mark A. Bialik wrote: Fetch magic-filter and configure it for your printer. I use Mozilla and cannot print either, although my printer otherwise is working fine. It is a postscript printer, so I do not have magic-filter configured. I use a2ps for printing ASCII text

Re: Printing from browser

2000-10-18 Thread Mark A. Bialik
Fetch magic-filter and configure it for your printer. Good luck, Mark Cavaiani, Don wrote: I have netscape working fine. I can print fine for a command line. When I hit the print button from the Netscape browser, I just get pages and pages of garbage. What should I be looking at ??

Re: Printing from browser

2000-10-18 Thread Christopher W. Aiken
On Wed, Oct 18, 2000 at 02:59:29PM -0500, Cavaiani, Don wrote: -|I have netscape working fine. I can print fine for a command line. When I -|hit the print button from the Netscape browser, I just get pages and pages -|of garbage. What should I be looking at ?? -| When the Netscape print box

Re: printing to a windows printer

2000-10-05 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Mon, 2 Oct 2000, David Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think), but how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd? Create a character special file with major number 1 and minor number 3, like that: mknod

Re: Printing problems

2000-10-05 Thread Timothy Ritchey
Ho-Kuo Chan wrote: Hello, I am running Debian potato and have set up an SMB printer with Printtool (3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was working fine until recently, I think a package update may have caused the problem. The problem is that

Re: printing to a windows printer

2000-10-02 Thread Philipp Lehman
On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have done this in suse, and redhat but am thus far unsuccessful. I need to print to an HP722C (win printer) that is hooked up to windows 98 on an internal lan. looking at logs Oct 1 19:31:11 ganymede pnm2ppa[1192]: No pages printed!

Re: printing to a windows printer

2000-10-02 Thread David Erdman
sorry, i am pretty new in linuxi understand the lock part (i think), but how would someone create a trash bin dedicated to lpd? should I just comment the /dev/null out then? On Mon, 02 Oct 2000, Philipp Lehman wrote: On Sun, 1 Oct 2000, David Erdman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: i have done

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