[expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread Lawson, Jim
is there anyway to make the print drivers automatically pull down when you install a printer? Under windows Nt , 2k or 2003 server the drivers get pulled down automatically. James S. Lawson Network Manager Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212)

Re: [expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread James Sparenberg
On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:32, Lawson, Jim wrote: is there anyway to make the print drivers automatically pull down when you install a printer? Under windows Nt , 2k or 2003 server the drivers get pulled down automatically. Not really because the concept of drivers as you are used to in

RE: [expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread Lawson, Jim
Thanks for the information. -Original Message- From: James Sparenberg [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 1:58 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1 On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:32, Lawson, Jim wrote: is there anyway to make the print

Re: [expert] Printing with mandrake 9.1

2003-11-11 Thread Bill Mullen
On Tue, 11 Nov 2003, James Sparenberg wrote: On Tue, 2003-11-11 at 10:32, Lawson, Jim wrote: is there anyway to make the print drivers automatically pull down when you install a printer? Under windows Nt , 2k or 2003 server the drivers get pulled down automatically. Not really because

Re: [expert] Printing from RC2...

2003-09-26 Thread Eric Fernandez
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi Eric, thanks for the info. I've just spent the past hour chasing this gremlin and come to find out that it appears the samba client packages did not install correctly which is why I'm having trouble accessing this share. Are you talking about updating all of the

[expert] Printing from RC2...

2003-09-25 Thread Mark Weaver
Hi all, Since installing RC2 I've not been able to print. The printer I use is a samba share located on a Mandrake 8.2 server running samba. Its been this way for over a year now and has/is working perfectly. Which leads me to believe the problem is indeed within RC2 on the workstation. ( its

Re: [expert] Printing from RC2...

2003-09-25 Thread Eric Fernandez
Mark Weaver wrote: Hi all, Since installing RC2 I've not been able to print. The printer I use is a samba share located on a Mandrake 8.2 server running samba. Its been this way for over a year now and has/is working perfectly. Which leads me to believe the problem is indeed within RC2 on

Re: [expert] Printing from RC2...

2003-09-25 Thread Mark Weaver
Eric Fernandez wrote: Mark Weaver wrote: Hi all, Since installing RC2 I've not been able to print. The printer I use is a samba share located on a Mandrake 8.2 server running samba. Its been this way for over a year now and has/is working perfectly. Which leads me to believe the problem is

Re: [expert] Printing envelopes in OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Joeb
Miark wrote: I'm trying to use OOo (1.0.2 and/or 1.1 RC2) to print envelopes. It prints, and everything is where it should be, but the lettering is as if only half the toner is being put to paper--like the Toner Save feature of my Samsung ML-4600 laser printer is being turned on. But this happens

Re: [expert] Printing envelopes in OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Miark wrote: I'm trying to use OOo (1.0.2 and/or 1.1 RC2) to print envelopes. It prints, and everything is where it should be, but the lettering is as if only half the toner is being put to paper--like the Toner Save feature of my Samsung ML-4600 laser printer is being turned on. [..] Not knowing

Re: [expert] Printing envelopes in OOo

2003-08-14 Thread charlie
On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 07:49 am, Miark wholly or partly mentioned :- I'm trying to use OOo (1.0.2 and/or 1.1 RC2) to print envelopes. It prints, and everything is where it should be, but the lettering is as if only half the toner is being put to paper--like the Toner Save feature of my Samsung

[expert] Printing envelopes in OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
I'm trying to use OOo (1.0.2 and/or 1.1 RC2) to print envelopes. It prints, and everything is where it should be, but the lettering is as if only half the toner is being put to paper--like the Toner Save feature of my Samsung ML-4600 laser printer is being turned on. But this happens _only_ when

Re: [expert] Printing envelopes in OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 20:33:39 -0500, Joeb [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What font are you using? Helvetica. Maybe it doesn't render properly when turned sideways to print on an envelope (I'm grasping here). Not bad guess, but I tried it sideways in a regular doc, and it printed just fine.

[expert] Printing puzzle

2003-06-20 Thread Anne Wilson
In both xpp settings and kprinter settings I have margins set to 1 all round, yet when I print from kmail I have no margins at all - which means that I lose the subject line. Does anyone know why this is happening? Is there a different control that I need? Anne Want to buy your Pack or

Re: [expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-10 Thread Philip Webb
030605 Anne Wilson wrote: AW Does anyone get a satisfactory printout AW with pp 1-2 on one side, pp 3-4 on the other. PW i always print things with Xpp , PW which shows an option to print 2 or 4 pp/side. PW generally, Xpp is very good for printing text files. PW goto 'Options' - 'Basic' -

Re: [expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-10 Thread Anne Wilson
On Tuesday 10 Jun 2003 7:34 pm, Philip Webb wrote: 030605 Anne Wilson wrote: AW Does anyone get a satisfactory printout AW with pp 1-2 on one side, pp 3-4 on the other. PW i always print things with Xpp , PW which shows an option to print 2 or 4 pp/side. PW generally, Xpp is very good

[expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
Does anyone get a satisfactory printout from this configuration? If I select a kde editor, a document of 2 pages prints beautifully, but if there are more than that it forgets to flip the paper, and prints on top of the existing ones. Gedit does a much cleaner printout, and flips the paper,

Re: [expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
030605 Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone get a satisfactory printout from this configuration? do you mean printing 2 pages on 1 (side of a) sheet? If I select a kde editor, a document of 2 pages prints beautifully, but if there are more than that it forgets to flip the paper, and prints on

Re: [expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 9:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: 030605 Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone get a satisfactory printout from this configuration? do you mean printing 2 pages on 1 (side of a) sheet? Yes - pp 1-2 on one side, pp 3-4 on the other. If I select a kde editor, a document of 2

Re: [expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-06 Thread Philip Webb
030605 Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 9:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: 030605 Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone get a satisfactory printout with pp 1-2 on one side, pp 3-4 on the other. i always use Gvim print things with Xpp , which shows an option to print 2 or 4 pp/side, tho' i

Re: [expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 9:56 pm, Philip Webb wrote: 030605 Anne Wilson wrote: On Thursday 05 Jun 2003 9:02 pm, Philip Webb wrote: 030605 Anne Wilson wrote: Does anyone get a satisfactory printout with pp 1-2 on one side, pp 3-4 on the other. i always use Gvim print things with Xpp ,

Re: [expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-06 Thread charlie
On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:41 pm, Anne Wilson sent this :- Does anyone get a satisfactory printout with pp 1-2 on one side, pp 3-4 on the other. I probably have the wrong end of the stick so won't go into a great deal of detail. But Kprinter gives you a choice of pages to print by number. Also

Re: [expert] Printing 2-up from a text editor

2003-06-06 Thread charlie
On Fri, 6 Jun 2003 11:05 am, Anne Wilson sent this :- On Friday 06 Jun 2003 8:28 pm, charlie wrote: On Thu, 5 Jun 2003 09:41 pm, Anne Wilson sent this :- Does anyone get a satisfactory printout with pp 1-2 on one side, pp 3-4 on the other. I probably have the wrong end of the

[expert] Printing Problem in MDK 9.1

2003-04-02 Thread rob
ok... Does anyone know what this means and how I could go about fixing it? This is a stock 9.1 Upgrade from 9.0 and whereas printing worked (after a fashion) in 9.0, it does not in 9.1 :( Thanks -- rob [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] rob]# printerdrake (printerdrake:14345):

Re: [expert] Printing Banner page

2003-01-23 Thread Toshiro
No, that should be OK (everything commented); do you have defined the 'BannerEnd' directive in /etc/cups/printers.conf? By the looks of it there isn't a single uncommented value for either of those settings. Is there something I need to set it to explicitly to get rid of the banner? -

Re: [expert] Printing Banner page

2003-01-23 Thread Theo Brinkman
Nope. Toshiro wrote: No, that should be OK (everything commented); do you have defined the 'BannerEnd' directive in /etc/cups/printers.conf? By the looks of it there isn't a single uncommented value for either of those settings. Is there something I need to set it to explicitly to get rid

[expert] Printing in KDE

2003-01-21 Thread Jarmo
Hi Has anyone else had difficulties print in kde? I can't print.When trying,klicking printer prosess hangs somewhere, haven't found any errors anywhere. With XPP I can print files... I can configure printer ( HP laserjet 4L) in mandrake control center, but not in kde control center...?

[expert] Printing in KDE

2003-01-21 Thread Jarmo
Hi Aarrgh...send prvious too hastly... I ment printing in konqueror...Wrote KDE... Sorry confusion... Jarmo Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

RE: [expert] Printing in KDE

2003-01-21 Thread JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1)
: Tuesday, January 21, 2003 12:28 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] Printing in KDE Hi Has anyone else had difficulties print in kde? I can't print.When trying,klicking printer prosess hangs somewhere, haven't found any errors anywhere. With XPP I can print files... I can configure printer

Re: [expert] Printing in KDE

2003-01-21 Thread Jarmo
On Tuesday 21 January 2003 21:32, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Hi, In order to solve your problem, we'll need a little more information... Is it just a KDE problem, or printing in Linux in general? What version of Mandrake are you using? Do you have CUPS installed? Describe in detail

Re: [expert] Printing in KDE

2003-01-21 Thread Jim C
Not to ruffle anyone's feathers but printing in Linux has never been something I've been impressed with. The colors are always off and I find that almost always the image is not properly centered. As a consequence I've always used Windows based print servers. Jim C. Has anyone else had

Re: [expert] Printing in KDE

2003-01-21 Thread Dave Laird
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Good afternoon, Jarmo... On Tuesday 21 January 2003 12:11 pm, Jarmo wrote: After fresh installation everything worked ok,but somewhere after MDK update (all updates done this far) printing stopped. Y'know, if I hadn't seen this, I probaby would

Re: [expert] Printing Banner page

2003-01-20 Thread Theo Brinkman
By the looks of it there isn't a single uncommented value for either of those settings. Is there something I need to set it to explicitly to get rid of the banner? - Theo Toshiro wrote: I've got a working printer configuration using CUPS and Mandrake 8.2. It prints wonderfully, but it

Re: [expert] Printing Banner page

2003-01-20 Thread Theo Brinkman
If it matters, the printer is actually hanging off the lpd print server on my SMB Barricade router. SMC tech support says it doesn't print a banner page itself, and nothing in the documentation or setting indicates that it does either. - Theo Toshiro wrote: I've got a working printer

Re: [expert] Printing Banner page

2003-01-18 Thread Toshiro
I've got a working printer configuration using CUPS and Mandrake 8.2. It prints wonderfully, but it spits out a banner page at the end of each print job. I've checked the WWW CUPS Admin Tool, and both of the banner page settings are set to none. How can I get it to stop printing the

[expert] Printing Banner page

2003-01-17 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've got a working printer configuration using CUPS and Mandrake 8.2. It prints wonderfully, but it spits out a banner page at the end of each print job. I've checked the WWW CUPS Admin Tool, and both of the banner page settings are set to none. How can I get it to stop printing the banner?

Re: [expert] Printing problems

2002-12-30 Thread Ray Warren
On Sun, Dec 29, 2002 at 03:00:03PM -0800, Jim C wrote: On every printer (and there have been probably 5 or 6) I have ever tried to use with Linux I have had the following problem. The first line prints right on the top border of the printable area meaning that only half of it actually gets

Re: [expert] Printing problems

2002-12-30 Thread Jim C
Thanks! Your the first guy who sounded like he might know what I was talking about. ;-) If you are using cups and printing from the cl you can use a default options file /etc/cups/lpoptions and include any of the job options Mine has : Default EpsonC40 page-left=49 prettyprint=true page-top=36

[expert] Printing problems

2002-12-29 Thread Jim C
On every printer (and there have been probably 5 or 6) I have ever tried to use with Linux I have had the following problem. The first line prints right on the top border of the printable area meaning that only half of it actually gets printed. Now there should be a way to adjust this but

[expert] printing from an XP machine to a CUPs printer

2002-12-27 Thread John Haywood
As the subject says, I've got a client machine running XP which can browse the server, see the shares, see the printer, but when trying to access it says that permission is denied, or somesuch (in Windowsspeak) Now, the server has the printers defined with guest access, client-side drivers

Re: [expert] printing from an XP machine to a CUPs printer

2002-12-27 Thread Bryan Whitehead
John Haywood wrote: As the subject says, I've got a client machine running XP which can browse the server, see the shares, see the printer, but when trying to access it says that permission is denied, or somesuch (in Windowsspeak) Now, the server has the printers defined with guest access,

[expert] Printing in Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-30 Thread rob
Greetings all, Actually this has been plagueing me since 8.2 but continues in 9.0. Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? bad printcap name 'HP DeskJet970C', has '' character Here is my /etc/printcap file |HP DeskJet970C:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\

Re: [expert] Printing in Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-30 Thread Jim C
I also have a printin problem. An issue I've been trying to cope with since I got my first Linux distro. Every time I try to print it prints to high on the page. I loose enough that if I print from Netscape or Mozilla the top line that tells you what the URL of the printed page was is

Re: [expert] Printing in Mandrake 9.0

2002-11-30 Thread Donna and Matthew Persico
On 30 Nov 2002 07:41:57 -0500, rob [EMAIL PROTECTED]said: Greetings all, Actually this has been plagueing me since 8.2 but continues in 9.0. Does anyone know what this means and how to fix it? Here's a guess... Try getting rid of the space and the bar in the first entry |HP DeskJet970C:\ The

Re: [expert] printing multiple photos

2002-11-19 Thread Pierre Fortin
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:07:39 -0500 Jonathan Dlouhy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to use GIMP or another editing program that will allow me, for example, to put two different pictures, like 4x6 on the same page and print them that way? I hate to use the Windoze word, but there are

Re: [expert] printing multiple photos

2002-11-19 Thread Larry Sword
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jonathan Dlouhy wrote: |Is there a way to use GIMP or another editing program that will allow me, for |example, to put two different pictures, like 4x6 on the same page and print |them that way? I hate to use the Windoze word, but there are

Re: [expert] printing multiple photos

2002-11-19 Thread Brian Schroeder
, but not generally installed by default. It will also give you virtually unlimited positioning and scaling options. Brian. From: Pierre Fortin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mandrake Expert [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] printing multiple photos Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 12:19:46

Re: [expert] printing multiple photos

2002-11-19 Thread kwan
On Tue, 19 Nov 2002 00:07:39 -0500 Jonathan Dlouhy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to use GIMP or another editing program that will allow me, for example, to put two different pictures, like 4x6 on the same page and print them that way? I hate to use the Windoze word, but there

Re: [expert] printing multiple photos

2002-11-19 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
On Tuesday 19 November 2002 5:39 pm, Brian Schroeder wrote: As Pierre said, there are SO many ways in Linux So often, when I want to do something, the problem is deciding which tool to use! Since you like Word for this, I too would have suggested oowriter. But xfig is something else that

[expert] printing multiple photos

2002-11-18 Thread Jonathan Dlouhy
Is there a way to use GIMP or another editing program that will allow me, for example, to put two different pictures, like 4x6 on the same page and print them that way? I hate to use the Windoze word, but there are numerous programs for 'doze that will do this easily. There must be a Linux

[expert] Printing problem with Gimp and Mdk 9.0

2002-10-27 Thread Phil
Hello All, Since installing Mdk 9.0 I am experiencing a problem with printing from the Gimp. I have not had this problem before and all other applications (and the test page from the Mandrake control centre) print correctly. When I try to print a picture kprinter displays an error message that

Re: [expert] Printing problem with Gimp and Mdk 9.0

2002-10-27 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Phil wrote: Hello All, Since installing Mdk 9.0 I am experiencing a problem with printing from the Gimp. I have not had this problem before and all other applications (and the test page from the Mandrake control centre) print correctly. When I try to print a picture kprinter displays an error

[expert] Printing under Security level Higher

2002-10-13 Thread Angus Beath
Hey guys/gals, I've got a machine in a uni that needs as much security as it can get. But, I also need it to be able to print and with the security permissions set to higher it won't work. Can someone give me a tip on what I need to change to allow printing? This is a Mandrake 9.0 system.

Re: [expert] Printing under Security level Higher

2002-10-13 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Angus Beath wrote: Hey guys/gals, I've got a machine in a uni that needs as much security as it can get. But, I also need it to be able to print and with the security permissions set to higher it won't work. Can someone give me a tip on what I need to change to allow printing? This is a

RE: [expert] Printing under Security level Higher

2002-10-13 Thread Franki
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rolf Pedersen Sent: Monday, 14 October 2002 1:18 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Printing under Security level Higher Angus Beath wrote: Hey guys/gals, I've got a machine in a uni that needs as much security as it can get. But, I also need

[expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

2002-09-29 Thread Carlos Cifuentes
I am conected with telnet to a remote server. How i can print files of this server in my local printer? Is possible some like to cat file /dev/lp0? Thanks ___ Yahoo! Messenger Nueva versión: Webcam, voz, y mucho más ¡Gratis!

Re: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

2002-09-29 Thread James Sparenberg
Unfortunately when you are connected to a remote box its the same as if you were on the console of that remote box. In other words it has none of the facilities of the box your keyboard is attached to. In short a telnet or ssh session is really just like having a very very long cable from that

RE: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER

2002-09-29 Thread Bill Shirley
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of James Sparenberg Sent: Sunday, September 29, 2002 2:22 PM To: Expert List Subject: Re: [expert] PRINTING REMOTE FILES IN LOCAL PRINTER Unfortunately when you are connected to a remote box its

[expert] Printing problem

2002-08-14 Thread newslett
I just installed ML 9.0B2 for a friend and he has this problem when printing with an Epson Colour 400 (I think that's the model): = (snip) Hi Jason. I have noticed when I print in ABI word or open office I get a get a thin horizonal line about 2mm accross the top of my page. Any

[expert] printing problems

2002-07-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
I have downloaded a pdf file that I wish to print. It is only 8 pages long and 306k in size. I have an HP Deskjet 845C, Mandrake 8.2, using cups. I have also tried different drivers - CUPS and Gimp print, foomatic and Gimp print, and Gimp print and hpij. None have worked to print this file.

Re: [expert] printing problems

2002-07-25 Thread Praedor Tempus
On Thursday 25 July 2002 05:08 pm, Praedor Tempus wrote: I have downloaded a pdf file that I wish to print. It is only 8 pages long and 306k in size. I have an HP Deskjet 845C, Mandrake 8.2, using cups. I have also tried different drivers - CUPS and Gimp print, foomatic and Gimp print, and

[expert] printing problem - SAMBA socket in use?

2002-06-20 Thread Jeremy Mereness
I'm trying to print to a Windows printer over SAMBA on Mandrake 8.2. When I add the device, the first notable error in the CUPS error_log is LoadDevices: Added device smb... StartListening: NumListeners=3 StartListening: address=7f01 port=631 Unable to bind to socket - Address

Re: [expert] Printing to Win2K fails

2002-06-12 Thread J. Craig Woods
Jeremy Mereness wrote: I'm having a terrible time printing from my Mandrake 8.2 system to an OfficeJet K60 spooled on Win2K. I use SMB to print. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't; the pattern has been completely random. When it doesn't work, the document will appear briefly

[expert] Printing to Win2K fails

2002-06-11 Thread Jeremy Mereness
I'm having a terrible time printing from my Mandrake 8.2 system to an OfficeJet K60 spooled on Win2K. I use SMB to print. Sometimes it works, sometimes it just doesn't; the pattern has been completely random. When it doesn't work, the document will appear briefly in my Win2K queue but

Re: [expert] Printing

2002-05-07 Thread Ken Hawkins
Thanks for the info, will follow up when I get chance; still doesn't alter the fact that this is an area where microcrap winblows (in my experience) is way ahead, and through all those linux versions, I've seen little improvement. For the record, in every other area, I much prefer Linux,

Re: [expert] Printing

2002-05-07 Thread Ken Hawkins
I haven't tried that printer on W2K or XP yet, but a note on hardware; many newer computers allow you to set the parallel port as spp(old standard) or epp (newer faster). You might want to check this setting in the BIOS. I had this problem with older HPII's and HPIII's when users upgraded their

[expert] Printing

2002-05-06 Thread Ken Hawkins
/WARNING, RANT MODE ON Could someone please, please, please tell my why it seems every distro of linux is such a pain in the a%^ when it comes to printing. I have played with Redhat, Mandrake 7.1,7.2,8.1 8.2, Caldera, and ELX, and in EVERY CASE its an uphill battle to get a DIRECTLY attached

Re: [expert] Printing

2002-05-06 Thread FemmeFatale
Ken Hawkins wrote: Current problem: Using 8.2 beta 3 My current source of grief is an IBM 4029 laserprinter. I have tried all flavours of drivers, and even some HP and Lexmark drivers, and all I get is garbage across the top of the page, and the printer has to be reset. The printer

Re: [expert] Printing

2002-05-06 Thread John Haywood
On Tuesday 07 May 2002 05:05, you wrote: /WARNING, RANT MODE ON Could someone please, please, please tell my why it seems every distro of linux is such a pain in the a%^ when it comes to printing. Historical - printing used to be extremely expensive slow. It's really only now starting to be

[expert] Printing PS with LaserJet 1200 Under MDK 8.2

2002-03-31 Thread Bryan Walsh
Hi All, I've been having some problems getting my printer (Laserjet 1200 connected via USB) working properly under Mandrake 8.2. After configuring the printer under the control center I am able to print out the sample test page just fine. Also, from the command line I can print a text

[expert] Printing borked in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread Rob
I tried using the printer config menu from the control system menu. It detects my printer and everything, and then just hangs, never completing its operation by actually setting up the printer. I have a Lexmark Optra that I want to set up as a vanilla Postscript printer. So (Forgive me on this

Re: [expert] Printing borked in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread civileme
Rob wrote: I tried using the printer config menu from the control system menu. It detects my printer and everything, and then just hangs, never completing its operation by actually setting up the printer. I have a Lexmark Optra that I want to set up as a vanilla Postscript printer. So

RE: Re: [expert] Printing borked in 8.2

2002-03-20 Thread rob2
Sorry, fellow, there are three printing systems offered, LPRng, CUPS, and PDQ. lpd is OUT. Putting it in is likely to break things. It sounds more like there was a corrupted file during install than anything else. We have tested printing thoroughly with 8.2. Did you try # printerdrake

Re: [expert] Printing borked in 8.2/update

2002-03-20 Thread Rob
Update, LPRng will work fine with apsfilter if I start it manually. It just doesnt want to start on bootup. Once I start it, its AOK. Rob. civileme wrote: Rob wrote: I tried using the printer config menu from the control system menu. It detects my printer and everything, and then just

[expert] Printing to a USB Printer from Gimp

2002-01-31 Thread Ric Tibbetts
This is not fun. ;) I have an Epson Photo 785EPX printer. It prints just fine. Except when I try to print from Gimp (of course, it will print text just fine, but try to pring a photo quality pict... HAH!). Ahem. What I'm seeing in the logs is: - Jan 31 00:11:07 darkstar

[expert] printing euro symbol

2002-01-10 Thread Oscar
Hi all I can see the euro symbol (¤) but I can't print it. Any help? Thanks óscar. -- Usuario de Linux Registrado #227443 http://counter.li.org/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com

[expert] printing

2001-12-02 Thread richard
Hiya, which modules need/must to be compiled to allow norml printing on 2.4.13-7mdk ? I have tried both building the kernel with modules and built in for par port etc, but cups is winging it cant find the device ie /dev/lpr its there and works fine with 2.4.8-26mdk. just checking if I've missed

Re: [expert] printing

2001-12-02 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Sunday 02 December 2001 10:04 am, richard wrote: if not whats the safest known 2.4.15 or 2.4.14 kernel version ?, thats on the cooker at the moment ? cya Richard kernel-2.4.16.1mdk-1-1mdk seems fine here. I see alot of posts on the Mandrake newsgroup with the same good

Re: [expert] printing

2001-12-02 Thread Asheesh Laroia
Are you thinking of /dev/lp0? -- Asheesh. On 2 Dec 2001, richard wrote: Hiya, which modules need/must to be compiled to allow norml printing on 2.4.13-7mdk ? I have tried both building the kernel with modules and built in for par port etc, but cups is winging it cant find the device ie

Re: [expert] printing

2001-12-02 Thread richard
Hi Tom I've downloaded 2.4.26 from cooker,, where are the kernel headers for this, and the mdk souce TIA richard On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 17:09, Tom Brinkman wrote: On Sunday 02 December 2001 10:04 am, richard wrote: if not whats the safest known 2.4.15 or 2.4.14 kernel version ?, thats on

Re: [expert] printing

2001-12-02 Thread richard
yes a typo, still cant find it though On Sun, 2001-12-02 at 20:12, Asheesh Laroia wrote: Are you thinking of /dev/lp0? -- Asheesh. On 2 Dec 2001, richard wrote: Hiya, which modules need/must to be compiled to allow norml printing on 2.4.13-7mdk ? I have tried both building the

Re: [expert] printing in 8.1 and kde

2001-12-01 Thread Joseph Braddock
What printer are you trying to print to? Sounds like a winprinter (maybe a lexmark). If so, then the driver is the problem. Joe On Friday 30 November 2001 07:49 am, you wrote: OK, I have decided devfs isn't for me. I have the nomount option upon boot My question is how do I get printing

[expert] printing in 8.1 and kde

2001-11-30 Thread Klar Brian D Contr MSG SICN
OK, I have decided devfs isn't for me. I have the nomount option upon boot My question is how do I get printing to work in MDK 8.1 and KDE. Anything I print comes out with a complete black page. I can print with my laptop in Windows (gf likes win better) with no problem. So I assume the driver

Re: [expert] Printing problem - where to start?

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:18:42 -0700 Andreas J. Guelzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Witherspoon wrote: I'm trying print a postscript file (output by Vim). When I preview in gv everthing looks good, but when I print the last 3 lines for each page end up on a page by themselves. So a 3 page

Re: [expert] Printing problem - where to start?

2001-11-26 Thread Larry Sword
Bill Witherspoon wrote: On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 00:18:42 -0700 Andreas J. Guelzow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill Witherspoon wrote: I'm trying print a postscript file (output by Vim). When I preview in gv everthing looks good, but when I print the last 3 lines for each page end up on a

Re: [expert] Printing problem - where to start?

2001-11-26 Thread Bill Witherspoon
On Mon, 26 Nov 2001 13:15:04 -0800 Larry Sword [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As you have discovered when doing a :hardcopy filename.ps the output is size A4, the default in vim. A safe printoptions setting to try is: :set printoptions=paper:A4,duplex:off,collate:n,syntax:n

[expert] Printing problem - where to start?

2001-11-25 Thread Bill Witherspoon
I'm trying print a postscript file (output by Vim). When I preview in gv everthing looks good, but when I print the last 3 lines for each page end up on a page by themselves. So a 3 page file ends up 6 pages. 3 good pages and 3 pages with only 3 lines on them?? I tried printing the straight

Re: [expert] Printing problem - where to start?

2001-11-25 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
Bill Witherspoon wrote: I'm trying print a postscript file (output by Vim). When I preview in gv everthing looks good, but when I print the last 3 lines for each page end up on a page by themselves. So a 3 page file ends up 6 pages. 3 good pages and 3 pages with only 3 lines on them?? I

Re: [expert] Printing

2001-11-19 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
mike wrote: lpr filename prompts for the user name and password. I guess I need to know how to get lpr to not require a password. Since lpr never asked me for a password I don't really know what to do, but I wouldn't be surprised if the security section of /etc/cups/cups.conf has something

Re: [expert] Printing

2001-11-19 Thread mike
On Monday 19 November 2001 09:48, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: mike wrote: lpr filename prompts for the user name and password. I guess I need to know how to get lpr to not require a password. Since lpr never asked me for a password I don't really know what to do, but I wouldn't be surprised

[expert] Printing

2001-11-18 Thread mike
I have configured my printer using the Mandrake tool, which uses cups (the test page reports that the printer was set up using cups). This is an HP PS500 sitting on a Windows 2000 system, using SAMBA. The printer works fine when I am root, but when I am logged on as me, my requests are

Re: [expert] Printing

2001-11-18 Thread Andreas J. Guelzow
mike wrote: I have configured my printer using the Mandrake tool, which uses cups (the test page reports that the printer was set up using cups). This is an HP PS500 sitting on a Windows 2000 system, using SAMBA. The printer works fine when I am root, but when I am logged on as me, my

Re: [expert] Printing

2001-11-18 Thread mike
On Sunday 18 November 2001 18:35, Andreas J. Guelzow wrote: mike wrote: I have configured my printer using the Mandrake tool, which uses cups (the test page reports that the printer was set up using cups). This is an HP PS500 sitting on a Windows 2000 system, using SAMBA. The printer

Re: [expert] Printing Error Message - What Does It Mean?

2001-08-17 Thread Sevatio
Please disregard. I found the solution to this problem. Original Message On 8/17/01, 10:06:26 AM, Sevatio [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote regarding [expert] Printing Error Message - What Does It Mean?: OS:LM8.0 I can't seem to get one of my machines to print from anything in KDE. I ran

[expert] Printing is slow with CUPS

2001-06-27 Thread Theo Brinkman
I've finally managed to get my systems printing through a shared CUPS printer, but it takes about 5 minutes for an e-mail message shorter than this one to print from Mozilla. Also, stuff in the 'Options...' window of qtcups always resets to localhost, even though I have to put in the IP

[expert] Printing to nonstatndard paper sizes

2001-06-25 Thread Richard Clyne
I want to add a new paper size to the settings for an Epson 760 (Panoramic photo paper). However, I've failed to find any documentation on how to go about this. I use gimp-print through cups to print to it. Can anyone help? Richard

Re: [expert] Printing to nonstatndard paper sizes

2001-06-25 Thread Larry Sword
Richard Clyne wrote: I want to add a new paper size to the settings for an Epson 760 (Panoramic photo paper). However, I've failed to find any documentation on how to go about this. I use gimp-print through cups to print to it. Can anyone help? Richard If you are using qtcups or xpp

[expert] Printing problems with KDE 2.1 and cups/kups

2001-03-20 Thread Praedor Tempus
I am running KDE 2.1 with cups-1.1.6, kups-1.1-4mdk, qtcups-2.1-7mdk. I have an Epson Color Stylus 600. I can startup and testprint from kups as superuser/root but if I try this as a user, kups freezes up and bogs down my whole system - kpm indicates in the neighborhood of 99% CPU usage.

Re: [expert] Printing to a HP 4050TN

2001-02-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
Buenos dias, Go to http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups2.html#instpostscript and to get the PPD file of the printer to http://hp.sourceforge.net/ Hasta mas, Till Alfredo Cole wrote: Hi: This may be OT, but does anybody know how to print to different trays in a HP 4050TN

Re: [expert] Printing to a HP 4050TN

2001-02-13 Thread Alfredo Cole
Thank you. This looks like what I needed. Take care. El Martes 13 Febrero 2001 13:14, Till Kamppeter escribió: Buenos dias, Go to http://mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups2.html#instpostscript and to get the PPD file of the printer to http://hp.sourceforge.net/ Hasta mas, Till

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