Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-30 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 29 November 2003 10:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: CG Can you add some whitespace between the initials and the message text? CG -- cmg CG CG CG Is that better? -- /\

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-30 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Sunday 30 November 2003 08:27 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 10:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: CG Can you add some whitespace between the initials and the message text? CG -- cmg CG CG CG Is that better? Yes. Well, at least I think so. -- cmg Want to buy your

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 10:32 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: The detection is odd, sometimes it detects correctly as usb, and other times you have to tell it that it's wrong, and change it to usb. Once set, though, it seems entirely stable. Anne Indeed, to my mind the detection software needs re-examining. It's auto is a bit

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 28 November 2003 05:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: JRI think it's dot actually every case, sometimes it seems to detect and JRset it up correctly, sometimes it mucks it up.It's hard to replicate the JRcircumstances when it does it right and when it does it wrong. But I JRthink there

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Saturday 29 November 2003 15:15, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:24 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: JRI think it's dot actually every case, sometimes it seems to detect and JRset it up correctly, sometimes it mucks it up.It's hard to replicate the JRcircumstances when it

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always thought only the bat H.users did that. H. H.Good luck, H.HarM Ya know - I just thought I'd try it to see how it felt/looked. Not good, eh? --

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Anne Wilson
On Saturday 29 Nov 2003 9:06 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Anne Wilson wrote: The detection is odd, sometimes it detects correctly as usb, and other times you have to tell it that it's wrong, and change it to usb. Once set, though, it seems entirely stable. Anne Indeed, to my mind the

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always thought only the bat H.users did that. H. H.Good luck, H.HarM Ya know - I just thought I'd try it to see how it

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 29 November 2003 8:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: CG On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: CG On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: CG H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 29 November 2003 8:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: CG On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: CG On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn wrote: CG H.Sheesh Dark Lord, that JR looks horrible.I always

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Saturday 29 November 2003 12:01 pm, Charlie Mahan wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 29 November 2003 8:49 am, Carroll Grigsby wrote: CG On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:28 am, Ronald J. Hall wrote: CG On Saturday 29 November 2003 09:22 am, H.J.Bathoorn

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-29 Thread Charlie Mahan
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Saturday 29 November 2003 4:20 pm, Carroll Grigsby wrote: whack CG Charlie: CG Six of one, half dozen of the other. Either way, I find the spaces make it a CG bit more intelligible. BTW, did you intend to suggest a connection between me CG and

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: Thanks for the reply John - turned out that /var/spool/cups did not exist - I created that file, then reran/modify from Webmin, and all was well. :-) So what procedure did you follow to create /var/spool/cups and , what's webmin got to do with it I wonder ? John --

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 28 November 2003 02:19 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRSo what procedure did you follow to create /var/spool/cups JRand , JRwhat's webmin got to do with it I wonder ? JR JRJohn JR I just changed to su, then cd'ed into /var/spool and did a: mkdir cups As far as Webmin goes, I just

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: I just changed to su, then cd'ed into /var/spool and did a: mkdir cups Well I certainly have a /var/spool/cups so that cannot be my problem. As far as Webmin goes, I just used it to retrace my steps thru the printer process, making sure all was well. I never tried to

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53, JRmaybe it is in kde parlance, but if so the OS thinks it is on JR/dev/usb/lp0 JRBut thern again Pup

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53, JRmaybe it is in kde parlance, but if so

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Have you tried removing all instances of your printer, down to zero, and running printerdrake again? I did this at one point. It might help - I've seen it suggested before. No I haven't , I didn't

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-28 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 28 Nov 2003 7:01 pm, Ronald J. Hall wrote: On Friday 28 November 2003 05:09 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRThen again, according to KDE-peripherals-printer, JRkde believes my Z53 is on a port, local system-USB-USB JRprinte~1-Lexmark Z53, JRmaybe it is in kde

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-27 Thread John Richard Smith
Ronald J. Hall wrote: I've got an Epson C62 Stylus, via USB that has worked great with v9.1 but now with my 9.2 install, nada... A print error occured. Error message received from system: cupsdoprint -P 'Printer' -J 'signature1a.txt' -H 'localhost:631' -U 'darklord' -o ' copies=1

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-27 Thread Margot
Ronald J. Hall wrote: (repost from the expert list - sorry for duping!) I've got an Epson C62 Stylus, via USB that has worked great with v9.1 but now with my 9.2 install, nada... The KDE and Mandrake control centers find it, identify it, set it up with Cups but whenever I actually try to

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 November 2003 04:04 am, John Richard Smith wrote: JRI'm not being very specific here, but maybe this is a starting point, JRsince it's necessary to isolate the various aspects of a complicated JRprinter setup in linux, and having isolated the various aspects, attempt JRto solve

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-27 Thread Ronald J. Hall
On Thursday 27 November 2003 05:24 pm, Margot wrote: MaLogged in as root, went to MCC. Deleted the printer, then automatically Madetected printer to get it back again, reset it as default, then Mareconfigured CUPS. Printer now works. I have no idea why it stopped Maworking, or why it now works

[newbie] Printer problems

2003-11-26 Thread Ronald J. Hall
(repost from the expert list - sorry for duping!) I've got an Epson C62 Stylus, via USB that has worked great with v9.1 but now with my 9.2 install, nada... The KDE and Mandrake control centers find it, identify it, set it up with Cups but whenever I actually try to print, via drag 'n drop

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-24 Thread John Richard Smith
] Sent: 11/22/02 04:45 PM To: Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53 No, the colours are all there, printer works fine in M8.2, not M9.0 but I have found out something. the ghostscript drivers for M8.2

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-24 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 9:22 am, you wrote: but the fact of the matter is that yellow is in segment forY yellow blue - - M magenta red _ _C cyan mauve _ _

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Joseph Braddock wrote: Okay, I tried my printing and guess what, it no longer prints correctly and I can duplicate your problems. This is strange as I have printed numerous photos since installing 9.0 (download). I do recall doing a Mandrake Update that did something with cups, gimp and

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Sunday 24 Nov 2002 9:22 am, you wrote: but the fact of the matter is that yellow is in segment forY yellow blue - - M magenta red _ _C cyan mauve _

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-24 Thread John Richard Smith
Joseph Braddock wrote: I'm am almost positive that it is the driver. While I thought the test page was printing normally, I noticed that the colors were off from what was indicated (particularly red was green and vice versa). This also caused the Mandrake Linux at the bottom of the page to be

[newbie] Printer Problems , M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-24 Thread John Richard Smith
I have lexmark printer working in M9.0 with the lexmarkz53-1.0-9.i386.rpm driver. The colour balance is a bit off, too blueish. I cannot see how to adjust that. I also have misalignment between the 3 primary colours almost certainly due to printhead adjustment being out. I keep trying to use

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Joe Braddock wrote: In case it is the driver, have you tried downloading new ones from Lexmark's site? Also, I think the Z53 drivers are tied to GhostScript. Have you looked into a problem with that? I ask these questions, because I am printing from 9.0 to a Z53 flawlessly (text, color, and

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
Joe Braddock wrote: ---Original Message--- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/22/02 04:45 PM To: Spencer [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53 I guess so. I've been conducting a little experiment

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-23 Thread John Richard Smith
] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53 I guess so. I've been conducting a little experiment, this is with Z53 foomatic+gimp-print driver(it's probably the better of the two ghostscript drivers) now I've taken the standard colour settings :- yellow 1.000 contrast

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 5:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer driver/spooling in M9.0 as me but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and nothing I do to correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation and brightness

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Anne Wilson wrote: On Friday 22 Nov 2002 5:47 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer driver/spooling in M9.0 as me but mine is totally stuffed on the colour side and nothing I do to correct the appauling colour balance , hue , saturation

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-22 Thread John Richard Smith
Joe Braddock wrote: ---Original Message--- From: John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 11/22/02 11:47 AM To: NEWBIE 1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53 I don't know if anyone else has had problems with their printer driver/spooling

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems M9.0 and Lexmark Z53

2002-11-22 Thread Anne Wilson
On Friday 22 Nov 2002 9:04 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: Anyway just in case you think it's the cartridge let me assure you reverting back to M8.2( one of the advantages of dual booting) and putting the same files though a print cycle produces perfect output. Seems to suggest someone has

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

2002-03-12 Thread Rich
Never mind. :) I did a little more research and found the CUPS administrative tool. CUPS required that I log on as root before it would let me delete the job. Maybe that was the problem with the Print Job Admin tool, I wasn't logged in as root. All is well... Rich On Tue, 2002-03-12 at

[newbie] Printer Problems

2002-03-12 Thread Rich
I have an HP 930C printer, but I don't think my problem is related to the printer. I believe the problem is software/driver related. I'm running Mandrake 8.1 and was printing a large job that I didn't want to finish. I stopped the printing at the printer and went into the Print Job

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

2002-03-12 Thread Damian Gatabria
Any ideas on how to get rid of the old job? Also, are there any HP print utilies out there similar to the one that HP supplies for Windows systems? TIA try NOT cancelling from the printer. delete the job while it's printing. it will print half a page probably, and then stop. note: if

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

2002-03-12 Thread Walter Logeman
Rich, On Wed, 13 Mar 2002 04:36, in Re: [newbie] Printer Problems, you wrote: Never mind. :) I did a little more research and found the CUPS administrative tool.  CUPS required that I log on as root before it would let me delete the job.  Maybe that was the problem with the Print Job

[newbie] Printer Problems?

2001-06-13 Thread Curtis Matthiesen
I am using a Lexmark 3200 with Mandrake 8.0 and when I was installing Mandrake, I tried all three drivers for the 3200 to no avail. As when I would, print a test page my printer would become jammed and my lights would flash to indicate this. I also tried the generic print driver without

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems?

2001-06-13 Thread civileme
On Wednesday 13 June 2001 15:32, Curtis Matthiesen wrote: I am using a Lexmark 3200 with Mandrake 8.0 and when I was installing Mandrake, I tried all three drivers for the 3200 to no avail. As when I would, print a test page my printer would become jammed and my lights would flash to

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-17 Thread civileme
Marcia wrote: Dear All, Almost everything is working in 7.2 except for printing. I thought that Cups would be automatically set up during installation, but I guess not. I went to Abiword and KWord to print out something and it did not work. How do I set this printer up with Cups and or

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
KEdit has really a bug and does not print at all. Your lp.ppd is probably broken due to a bug in the database of linuxprinting.org (the origin of the file). I have fixed this databse bug, and now the PPD files there are correct. Download

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-16 Thread Marcia
Dear All, Almost everything is working in 7.2 except for printing. I thought that Cups would be automatically set up during installation, but I guess not. I went to Abiword and KWord to print out something and it did not work. How do I set this printer up with Cups and or Kups? I have looked at

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-16 Thread Paul
On Thu, 16 Nov 2000, Marcia wrote: Hello Marcia, I think you need to log in as root or use 'su'. Then you can, from inside X-windows, run the 'kups' command to configure your printer. I have not gotten that far yet, but that is what I have seen. Good luck! Paul Dear All, Almost everything is

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-16 Thread Paul
I think you need to log in as root or use 'su'. Then you can, from inside X-windows, run the 'kups' command to configure your printer. I have not gotten that far yet, but that is what I have seen. Even better: on http://mandrakeuser.org there is a complete article on how to set it up! That

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-16 Thread Tom Brinkman
On Thursday 16 November 2000 11:20 am, Marcia wrote: Dear All, Almost everything is working in 7.2 except for printing. I thought that Cups would be automatically set up during installation, but I guess not. I went to Abiword and KWord to print out something and it did not work. How do I set

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-15 Thread Neville Cobb
Same problem here RE the printer. I found that when in say Kedit, select print and then when the print screen comes up and you cannot select any printer - simply type in the name you gave the printer (in my case I called it canon and types in canon) and it seems to print OK. Nev Till

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
I tried to print with KEdit, too, but it has a bug, I will report it. You method does not work for me. Till Neville Cobb wrote: Same problem here RE the printer. I found that when in say Kedit, select print and then when the print screen comes up and you cannot select any printer -

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-11-14 Thread Till Kamppeter
Can you tell me in which security level you are and can you send me also your /etc/cups/printers.conf, /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd? Till phil wrote: The desktop printer doesn't list any printers and dragging a file to the printer icon doesn't print that file. Originally

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-09-10 Thread John Rye
Mark Thurston wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the selects a driver, but the driver does not work properly. The test page prints, but very very slowly and it is all jumbled up and

Re: [[newbie] Printer problems]

2000-09-10 Thread Michael Scottaline
"Mark Thurston" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the selects a driver, but the driver does not work properly. The test page prints, but very very slowly and it is all

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-09-10 Thread Larry Marshall
John Rye wrote: Mark Thurston wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the Look in your printers' manual - somewhere you should find a reference to earlier HP Deskjets which it is similar

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-09-10 Thread Charles Oriez
ubject: Re: [newbie] Printer problems John Rye wrote: Mark Thurston wrote: I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the Look in your printers' manual - somewhere you should find a

Re: [newbie] Printer problems

2000-09-10 Thread Monte Milanuk
The HP 722c and other printers around that model number are a special PITA from heck. HP decided to use a proprietary set of drivers, which, despite all their talk about linux support, they have yet to release to the communtiy the details. Dig around on SourceForge for the pnm2ppa project, and

[newbie] Printer problems

2000-09-09 Thread Mark Thurston
I have an HP Deskjet 722C printer and I can not get it to work in Linux. The system finds the printer, tells me what it is and the selects a driver, but the driver does not work properly. The test page prints, but very very slowly and it is all jumbled up and unreadable. I have tried some

[newbie] Printer problems (easy)

1999-11-26 Thread root
Hey guys, I have a Brother HL-720 printer and I remembered seeing on one of the printer how to documents that it is supported under a ghostscript program or something like that. I have no idea what is ghostscript nor do I know how to get my printer working. Be gentle, I have no

Re: [newbie] Printer problems (easy)

1999-11-26 Thread M Thompson
PROTECTED] Subject: [newbie] Printer problems (easy) Date: Fri, 26 Nov 1999 09:34:20 -0400 Hey guys, I have a Brother HL-720 printer and I remembered seeing on one of the printer how to documents that it is supported under a ghostscript program or something like that. I have no idea what

[newbie] PRINTER PROBLEMS!!!!

1999-08-24 Thread Sean Armstrong
Will someone please tell me how to get this printer icon to work on my KDE desktop. It uses the lpr command and I know your suppose to drag and drop the text icon onto it. But the lpr command doesnt seem to work on my computer. In fact the only way I can print is to open the klpq window and

Re: [newbie] PRINTER PROBLEMS!!!!

1999-08-24 Thread Joseph S. Gardner
Sean Armstrong wrote: Will someone please tell me how to get this printer icon to work on my KDE desktop. It uses the lpr command and I know your suppose to drag and drop the text icon onto it. But the lpr command doesnt seem to work on my computer. In fact the only way I can print is to

[newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-22 Thread Sean Armstrong
Hello: This will now be the third time I have posted this question. I have posted helpful replies to other peoples questions on this list and, yet noone has helped me on this matter. So here goes it again: I have Mandrake 6.0 installed on my computer and have a HP officejet 500 printer

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-03 Thread Wilhelm Bertalan
Bernhard Rosenkraenzer wrote: On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote: I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still existing, the entry looks like: crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5

[newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-02 Thread Wilhelm Bertalan
Hallo, Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.34 and everything seemed to work ok. However, I did not test printing and when I started it today, it does not work. After investigating a bit further (with printtool) I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not detected") but

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-02 Thread Bernhard Rosenkraenzer
On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Wilhelm Bertalan wrote: I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not recognised ("not detected") but when I look into /dev lp0 (and lp1 and lp2) are still existing, the entry looks like: crw-rw 1 root daemon 6, 0 May 5 1998 lp0 crw-rw 1 root daemon

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

1999-08-02 Thread alann
Wilhelm Bertalan wrote: Hallo, Yesterday I upgraded the kernel from 2.2.19 to 2.2.34 and everything seemed to work ok. However, I did not test printing and when I started it today, it does not work. After investigating a bit further (with printtool) I found out that /dev/lp0/1/2 was not

[newbie] Printer Problems

1999-07-03 Thread mitcoo
Hello you all: I have a Canon BJC 210 printer, using Mandrake 6.02, when I try to print anything it says printer unknown, port not config it is picked up ok on port lpt0 , so how do I config the port as I am a newbie I have no idea. If some one would be so kind as to walk me though

Re: [newbie] Printer Problems

1999-07-03 Thread mitcoo
Hello Steve: Yes I have and it is all setup there ok, it says when I try to print anything " print unknown " it says something along the lines that the print port has to be config, and I have no idea how to do this at all. Thank You in Advance John Hall Steve Winston wrote: Did you