Re: [newbie] cups installation

2005-03-17 Thread Mikkel L. Ellertson
Carlton Matthew wrote: I have two PCs running MDK 10.1 On attempting to install cups, one PC downloads the files from the internet, and reports bad signatures, the other PC installs from the CDs with no apparent errors. Can i force the install package to read from the CD rather than download

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2004-08-31 Thread Steve
Thank you, It is now working. Steve - Original Message - From: Rob Blomquist [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 10:08 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go

RE: [newbie] CUPS

2004-08-30 Thread Ayares, Mark (Mark)
I had cups printer problems as well. I found using a web browser and pointing to http://localhost:631made installing printers real easy. Make sure cups service is started first in the services controller. Mark -Original Message-From: Steve [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]Sent:

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2004-08-30 Thread Cdrack
Seems to me like you dont have CUPS installed jet, so I recomend you to install all the CUPS RPMS befor trying to install the printer. After doing that you can use the web configuration tool for cups http://localhost:631 Cdrack. El lun, 30-08-2004 a las 21:00, Steve escribi: I am

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2004-08-30 Thread Steve
- Original Message - From: Cdrack To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 9:45 AM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS Seems to me like you don´t have CUPS installed jet, so I recomend you to install all the CUPS RPM´S befor trying to install the printer.After doing that you

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2004-08-30 Thread Rob Blomquist
On Monday 30 August 2004 4:15 pm, Steve wrote: After I intsall CUPS from the RPMs and then go to Configure your hardwarePrinters, it tries to load CUPS again, opens the packages to install it (even though I have already installed it) and then fails with the message CUPS cannot be installed. It

Re: [newbie] CUPS causing martian source messages in syslog

2004-07-15 Thread Bryan Phinney
On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:28 pm, hackhound wrote: I am using CUPS to print to a shared printer connected to my W2k machine. I notice the following two lines keep showing up in my syslog. They appear twice a minute nonstop. That is until I shutdown CUPS. Once I did that, the error

Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?

2004-01-09 Thread Miark
On Thu, 08 Jan 2004 20:17:48 +, Margot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been having problems with my printer for a while now. It is an Epson Stylus C42UX, and it disappears from my recognised hardware list every time I reboot - which is every day, as I don't have a cat-proof room for

Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?

2004-01-09 Thread Miark
On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:37:22 -0700, jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark I use the standard officejet and it works ... i would be scared

Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?

2004-01-09 Thread Aron Smith
On Fri, 2004-01-09 at 14:25, Miark wrote: On Fri, 09 Jan 2004 14:37:22 -0700, jpearl24 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's annoying because it absolutely does not work in XP (which he runs) and while it should work in 9.2 (and impress him to no end) it doesn't. Miark I use the

Re: [newbie] CUPS - possible USB problem on 9.2?

2004-01-09 Thread Carroll Grigsby
On Friday 09 January 2004 04:12 pm, Miark wrote: snip My brother has a OfficeJet or something like it. Mandrake 9.2 does have drivers for it, but it's not recognised at all. He doesn't live in the same city, so I haven't been able to experiment. It's annoying because it absolutely does not

Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Margot
Miark wrote: I thought OOo and CUPS work together, but when I print, there's no mention of CUPS, and whatever is working in its place does a crap job of printing (draft mode instead of normal, although it's not set to do that). How do I get CUPS to work with OOo? Miark I was using OOo on Win98,

Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Banks
Miark wrote: How do I get CUPS to work with OOo? Miark I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager handle things. works very well for me with a Kyocera-Mita FS1000 and an Epson Stylus Photo 830. HTH Graham -- Proudly powered by GNU/Linux Mandrake-9.2 (Cooker) kernel

Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Miark
And how did you set it? spadmin is the only tool I see, and it doesn't look like it can do this. Miark On Mon, 11 Aug 2003 19:55:47 +1000, Graham Banks [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager handle things. works very well for me with a

Re: [newbie] CUPS and OOo

2003-08-14 Thread Graham Banks
Miark wrote: And how did you set it? spadmin is the only tool I see, and it doesn't look like it can do this. I set the OOo print command to kprinter and let KDE print manager handle things. works very well for me with a Kyocera-Mita FS1000 and an Epson Stylus Photo 830. I used spadmin to

Re: [newbie] CUPS doesn't list my printer under MDK9

2003-03-15 Thread Graham Watkins
Derek Jennings wrote: Try Turboprint It is free (as in beer) for personal use and is said to work well with Canon printers. http://www.turboprint.de/english.html derek Installed it - did the business - thanks -- Graham Watkins For me, morning begins when I realize that the soft warm

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-10 Thread John Richard Smith
Len Lawrence wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:59:46 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are you working with M9.0 No, 8.2, but 9.0 has the broken Fontmap link. The msfonts directory is one I created to store downloaded MS TrueType fonts. I think that my Fontmap

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-10 Thread Len Lawrence
On Thu, 6 Mar 2003 09:33:05 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 9:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your comments John.

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Thread Greg Meyer
On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:51 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic (verdanaz.pfa) ; % 5066571 The font alias at the beginning of the line must

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Thread Michael Adams
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try,

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 06:58:55 -0500 Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sunday 09 March 2003 01:51 am, Len Lawrence wrote: Then, edit the Fontmap file. Insert the following line in the end section, using tabs as separators, not spaces: /Verdana-BoldItalic

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:59:46 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael Adams wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote:

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-09 Thread Len Lawrence
On Sun, 9 Mar 2003 22:56:45 +1300 Michael Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 09 Mar 2003 19:51, Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped --

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-08 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: all snipped -- Understanding linux printer setup is not easy, and so here is my best try, -- snip snip snip

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-06 Thread John Richard Smith
Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format has not replied. If in two years research I have not

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-06 Thread Anne Wilson
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 9:03 am, John Richard Smith wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: Thanks for your comments John. I agree that printing is a complex issue which probably explains why LX Format

Re: [newbie] CUPS doesn't list my printer under MDK9

2003-03-06 Thread Derek Jennings
On Thursday 06 Mar 2003 8:36 pm, Graham Watkins wrote: Hi Y'all, Just installed Mandrake 9.0 and was very pleased with it up to the point I tried to configure my printer, a Canon bjc 4200. The new version of CUPS doesn't list it. I tried using the bjc 4300 driver with horrendous results

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-05 Thread John Richard Smith
Len Lawrence wrote: The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. There must be somebody here who understands how CUPS references Type1 fonts. I have a problem which has resisted solution for well over two years now. No help from the

Re: [newbie] CUPS: importing fonts

2003-03-05 Thread Len Lawrence
On Wed, 05 Mar 2003 10:54:11 + John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Len Lawrence wrote: The importing fonts to CUPS saga continues. Please bear with me - this has turned into quite an essay. --- big snip Understanding linux printer

Re: [newbie] cups problems

2003-01-27 Thread Anne Wilson
On Monday 27 Jan 2003 9:44 am, Colin Jenkins wrote: On Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:02:49 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the feeling :) Have you tried deleting the unwanted printers in MCC? Tried deleting from cups, webmin and KDE printing manager, same result. I guess it's

Re: [newbie] cups problems

2003-01-27 Thread Damian Gatabria
On Sunday 26 January 2003 08:36, Colin Jenkins wrote: I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both using 2 printers on an NT box. on one box, trying to delete a print job with cups, no problems, on the other box, I get 'client-error-forbidden'. (even when logged on as root) I am also unable to delete some

Re: [newbie] cups problems

2003-01-27 Thread et
On Monday 27 January 2003 09:04 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 08:36, Colin Jenkins wrote: I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both using 2 printers on an NT box. on one box, trying to delete a print job with cups, no problems, on the other box, I get 'client-error-forbidden'.

Re: [newbie] cups problems

2003-01-27 Thread et
damn that was stupid of me I hijacked someone elses thread... so sorry please disreguard my reply On Monday 27 January 2003 12:10 pm, et wrote: On Monday 27 January 2003 09:04 am, Damian Gatabria wrote: On Sunday 26 January 2003 08:36, Colin Jenkins wrote: I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both

Re: [newbie] cups problems

2003-01-26 Thread Anne Wilson
On Sunday 26 Jan 2003 8:36 am, Colin Jenkins wrote: I have 2 linux boxes (mdk9) both using 2 printers on an NT box. on one box, trying to delete a print job with cups, no problems, on the other box, I get 'client-error-forbidden'. (even when logged on as root) I am also unable to delete some

Re: [newbie] cups problems

2003-01-26 Thread Colin Jenkins
On Sun, 26 Jan 2003 11:23:18 + Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've had that often in the past. First reaction is to thrash about ;) However, IIRC the solution was to logout and login again - presumably neither logging out or rebooting helped, reinstalled and everything seems ok

Re: [newbie] CUPS hangs on boot

2003-01-20 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Tue, 2003-01-21 at 03:04, Todd Slater wrote: On 9.0, amd k6-2, Canon bubblejet connected via USB. When it boots, it gets to where it starts CUPS and just hangs. Has anybody experienced this, or where should I look to find out what the problem is? (This isn't for me, and I don't have a

Re: [newbie] Cups not working on my box any longer

2003-01-08 Thread william stinson
On Saturday 04 January 2003 23:17, william stinson wrote: Hi I some how appear to have mucked up the CUPS printing facility on my box (probably due to some configuration error I must have made recently). It was working fine before. The symptom appears to be that the daemon cannot bind to the

Re: [newbie] Cups not working on my box any longer

2003-01-04 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Sun, 2003-01-05 at 09:17, william stinson wrote: Hi I some how appear to have mucked up the CUPS printing facility on my box (probably due to some configuration error I must have made recently). It was working fine before. The symptom appears to be that the daemon cannot bind to the

Re: [newbie] CUPS hangup

2002-11-17 Thread Warren Post
El jue, 14-11-2002 a las 14:34, Anne Wilson escribió: For some peculiar reason every time I try to print I am having problems. The printer starts OK, but hangs part way down the page. It is as though the print is not spooling, and drawing direct so that the slightest thing interferes with

Re: [newbie] CUPS Help

2002-11-13 Thread Stephen Kuhn
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:40, Tom wrote: I have searched the web, read CUPS documents, and still cannnot find the answer. Or maybe I am over looking it somewhere. I have a XEROX document centre machine that I am trying to print to. In RH7.3 I set it up as a unix printer 204.xxx.xxx.xxx with

Re: [newbie] CUPS Help

2002-11-13 Thread Technoslick
files. Go figure! Still, it seems to work well for me. Glad it worked for you, too. T :-) - Original Message - From: Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2002 2:31 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] CUPS Help Well it did not go as smooth as I thought, but I

Re: [newbie] CUPS Help

2002-11-12 Thread jbarron201
Thank,s I don,t know about his but mine had picked up the wrong drivers before the update and you sure helped me. JOE Tom, CUPS, in my very limited opinion, the best for easy and control in setting up an LPD printer. 1) Go into Mandrake Control Center | Hardware | Printer to set up CUPS.

Re: [newbie] CUPS Help

2002-11-12 Thread Carl J. Bauman
I'm using Mandrake 9.0, having recently upgraded from 8.2 where I had a working print system. My printer is attached to a different computer (WinXP) on my home network. In 8.2 I just used komba2 to find shared printers and everything just worked once I had located it. When I upgraded to

Re: [newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access

2002-10-17 Thread Steven Spears
I had same situation you did and here is how I fixed it. When I open up the MCC to share my net connection with the computers on my lan, the file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf is rewritten so that no one has access to the printer.. not even the root user! So I rewrite it this way: Location / AuthType

Re: [newbie] CUPS and 9.0 - no remote access

2002-10-17 Thread Sharrea
On Friday 18 Oct 2002 3:03 am, Brian Parish wrote: Installed 9.0 on my server last night. It has a local printer attached which I configured without problems using printerdrake. I can print to it locally but no other machines on the LAN can now access it. Printerdrake on the client machines

Re: [newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X

2002-07-28 Thread dfox
I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The Gemini-10X is a 9 pin You have one of those too ;). I got mine early on in 1984 (back then I was using a TRS890). The printer doesn't work anymore, but IIRC, it's pretty

Re: [newbie] CUPS driver for Star Gemini-10X

2002-07-24 Thread Richard Holt
On Wednesday, 24 July 2002 12:54 pm, Warren Post wrote: I am trying to get my venerable Star Gemini-10X working under LM 8.1 and CUPS but cannot find an appropriate driver. The Gemini-10X is a 9 pin dot matrix printer, so I've tried the dot matrix drivers that are available for Star under

RE: [newbie] CUPS and HP 2100 over JetDirect

2002-06-12 Thread Cory
Please post any other info you find on this topic because I hit a similar problem and we have 6 of these printers in production. I can get it to work if I point each individual printer to the IP without cups, but the cups does seem to act a little funny. Cory Grey Coastal Pacific Xpress

RE: [newbie] CUPS and HP 2100 over JetDirect

2002-06-12 Thread Joshua James
I have since been able to make it work better. I have tried both samba and lpd as well. I am not using the lpd and set the printer to http://x.x.x.x/printername and it printed to the Win2k server. I also had to change the print drive to HP LaserJet series or something simpler than the 2100

Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2

2002-05-02 Thread Roland Hughes
I had the same problem with the same printer. What fixed it for me was doing a Mandrake update and selecting everything that mentioned cups. I believe there was a server update and filters and a couple of other related updates. I have a slow dialup so I kicked it off over night and the next

Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2

2002-05-02 Thread Andre Dubuc
On Thursday 02 May 2002 08:26 am, you wrote: Well 8.2 does almost everything better than 8.1, but not with regard to my printer. I have a Canon S450, which worked faultlessly under 8.1, but under 8.2 the test page and anything else I print comes out double width. i.e. I only get the left

Re: [newbie] cups problem in 8.2

2002-05-02 Thread Brian Parish
OK - downloading now - also on a slow dialup. Should have tried that first I guess - not used to the updates actually fixing things ;-) Thanks and regards Brian On Wed, 2002-05-01 at 22:48, Roland Hughes wrote: I had the same problem with the same printer. What fixed it for me was doing a

Re: [newbie] cups

2001-08-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Have you tried looking for your printer at http://www.linuxprinting.org/? On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 01:39, Philippe Schottey wrote: Help, I've installed Mandrake 8.0 and i think it is great but.. i can not print ostcript files. I tried with a HP dj843V and a HP dj610C but cups just wont print the

Re: [newbie] cups

2001-08-04 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Open kups or qtcups as root and try configuring your printer. Then try printing a test page. Also, try using xpp to print a postscript page. On Sun, 5 Aug 2001 03:58, Philippe Schottey wrote: Yes, i did but nothing is said about problems with postcripts... i think. On Saturday 04 August

RE: [newbie] Cups problem with FS800

2001-08-01 Thread Franki
Hi peoples... In another first for me, (this is my firt week in experiments with smb and windows networking in linux) I decided to setup smb file and printer sharing with linux to the windows clients. First step being to get the printer setup locally, ,its a Kyocera FS800 (which has a cups

Re: [newbie]cups printing again

2001-05-31 Thread Marcia Waller
On Wednesday 30 May 2001 23:49, John David Molina wrote: El Jue 24 May 2001 13:16, Marcia Waller escribió: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration

Re: [newbie]cups printing again

2001-05-30 Thread John David Molina
El Jue 24 May 2001 13:16, Marcia Waller escribió: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-28 Thread Marcia Waller
On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:42, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, I remember that my printing was not very good in LM7 but it was better than what I got from cups in LM8. I just do not remember what I did to get it going. I think I used linuxconf which I finally found in LM8. I did find printtool and used it, then I

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-28 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in 7.2. The print is a little too light, wavy, and uneven

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-28 Thread Marcia Waller
On Monday 28 May 2001 14:49, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Alan All, Thank you Alan so much for your help. I have lpd installed and working now. Whew! I had to have some printing working. Now that I have it installed it reminded me why I was so happy to have cups in

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-27 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help will be appreciated. Thank you so much for your detailed

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-27 Thread Marcia Waller
On Sunday 27 May 2001 02:42, Alan Shoemaker wrote: Marcia Waller wrote: Alan, how do I get my printing to work now with the lpd? How do I choose, add, and configure printers with it? Is printtools the gui for it? I really do not know the first thing to do to get this started. Any help

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess

2001-05-26 Thread poogle
On Friday 25 May 2001 23:44, you wrote: Dear All, I have not been able to install the new cups 1.1.8. Has anyone successfully installed this in LM8? I am the one who has been asking for cups printing help for my Epson Stylus Color printer on LM8 for days now. I installed all of my cups

Re: [newbie]cups printing again

2001-05-26 Thread Civileme
On Thursday 24 May 2001 18:46, Francisco Alcaraz Ariza wrote: Some packages are costumed to use lpr as the command to print; but cups have changed this. Now the command for acroread, kwriter, etc. must be xpp. Try it, in my case all those packages are now printing fine, I have configured my

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. I installed all of my cups rpm's from my LM8 again. Nothing is working I got everything configured and whenever I try to print it just pours out an

Re: [newbie]cups printingMess(cont)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I checked my services that should be running in the Mandrake Control Center and there was no cups listed at all. It was before but since I reinstalled the cups it is not there. There is nothing for a printer there. Is not Cups and lpd supposed to be listed? Why would it not be?

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Alan Shoemaker
Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I thank all of you for giving me the suggestions for my printer. I have done most of them and none have improved my situtation. [snip] This problem is the same even though I started over and even got the new cups 1.1.8 installed. With this new cups which I

Re: [newbie]cups printing Mess(cont.)

2001-05-26 Thread Marcia Waller
Marciayou might try removing CUPS completely and going back to lpd. I just did this, as an experiment, in reaction to your comtinuing CUPS problems. Here's how I did it: remove the following (since you installed a 1.8 version you'll have to allow for the version differences)

Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)

2001-05-25 Thread Marcia Waller
On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not print from any application. If I try to print

Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)

2001-05-25 Thread s
On Friday 25 May 2001 11:45 am, you wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but will not

Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)again

2001-05-25 Thread Marcia Waller
On Friday 25 May 2001 12:45, Marcia Waller wrote: On Thursday 24 May 2001 12:16, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I cannot print at all now in my LM8 with my Epson Stylus Color with cups+gimp driver. I did download the new cups, too. It will printout a test page and do the calibration but

Re: [newbie]cups printing(a mess)again

2001-05-25 Thread Michael D. Viron
Dear All, I just found out there is a new version of cups. It is cups 1.1.8. I downloaded the rpm and tried to install. It was conflicting with the 1.1.7 cups so I went about uninstalling that version with all of its dependancies. The problem is it seems there are a never ending amount of

Re: [newbie] CUPS doesn't start

2001-03-22 Thread Renaud OLGIATI
On Thursday 22 March 2001 19:48, my mailbox was honoured by a missive from you that said : Xpp works fine -- until I shut down the workstation. When I start it again and try to print it responds with "Can't connect to CUPS server." If I su to root and type "service cups start" it works again

Re: [newbie] CUPS doesn't start

2001-03-22 Thread Doug Anderson
Ron, That fixed it. Thank you! -- Doug Anderson Renaud OLGIATI wrote: On Thursday 22 March 2001 19:48, my mailbox was honoured by a missive from you that said : Xpp works fine -- until I shut down the workstation. When I start it again and try to print it responds with "Can't

Re: [newbie] cups/kups doesn't detect my printer

2001-03-18 Thread Dennis Myers
On Sunday 18 March 2001 15:24, you wrote: The above sez most of it. Also get a error msg ""can't connect to cups server" when trying to run setup in kups. I have a 24-pin Panasonic KX-P2135 printer. It didn't work until I used the Epson LQ-850 driver in Drakconfig. Now I can print

Re: [newbie] Cups upgrade to 1.1.6

2001-03-16 Thread Jose Ricardo Sabino
hi, I upgraded cups to 1.1.6 yesterday and got the jobs printing again, I dont have printpro installed, and no error were reported in software update interface. I'm using KDE 2.0.1 yet. I curious stuff, in my system when the printer stops working properly, I have to remove any printer

Re: [newbie] Cups 1.1.6 Conflicts and HP612

2001-03-05 Thread Dan LaBine
Back to the drwaing board Bill. Silly question, but is your parallel port turned on in the BIOS? Try my suggestions again, but this time just use "File", "Find Packages" and see what comes up. Did you find the "cups-lpd" entry in "Startup Services"?? It matters. If it's not there, un-install

Re: [newbie] Cups 1.1.6 Conflicts and HP612

2001-03-04 Thread Bill Barto
Dan LaBine wrote: I'm replying to Bill about his HP612 printer, and to the post about the CUPS 1.1.6 conflicts. Bill,...the reason your HP printer isn't working is because you've got "printpro" installed. Log in as root, open a terminal, fire up kpackage, and manually remove any and all

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2001-02-26 Thread Micha POZARZYCKI
Oh yeah! And what type should I choose for my HP 640C Deskjet which is not supported? Micha On Wed, 21 Feb 2001, KompuKit wrote: Can someone tell me, what HP driver do I choose for a DeskJet 648c I don't see that one listed...in 7.2 cups -- Registered Linux User:

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2001-02-25 Thread Jay needs a Guinness
On Saturday 24 February 2001 14:00, you wrote: Can someone tell me, what HP driver do I choose for a DeskJet 648c I don't see that one listed...in 7.2 cups I used the HP 660C. Works good. -- Jay ~May the enemies of Ireland never meet a friend~ http://www.mrsnooky.com

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2001-02-24 Thread Dan LaBine
Have you tried any HP600 series printer driver? HP has a nasty habit of using the exact same electronics in many of it's printers ( in one series that is) for a multitude of printers. I've used the 600 for a 612, 695 and 697. All worked perfectly. If there's still "No Joy", Use t"kpackageas

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2001-02-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
-michael- wrote: I went to the 1st URL then got as far as the "choose "File" and "Save as..." part before I got confused. Konqueror doesn't afford me the option of doing that. I saved it as a plain text file in /usr/share/cups/model then opened a term and "service cups restart" then

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2001-01-28 Thread Till Kamppeter
Can you do the following: Go to http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=516274 This is a page about the Epson Stylus Scan 2500. Click on the "stcolor" link at the bottom and then choose the "Epson Stylus Scan 2500" in the menu at the button "Generate CUPS PPD". Click the button

Re: [newbie] CUPS

2001-01-27 Thread Meph Istopheles
Michael, I have an unsupported epson printer. I know that! But I would really like to see if, like the LM Hardware site says, it will "work in text mode". What you're looking to set up is printcap using (I suppose) postscript (a printer font -- there's more involved, but I don't know a

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-07 Thread John Rye
On Sat, 6 Jan 2001 09:45:25 -0500 (EST), Mark Weaver said: John, These "enhancements" are what's currently going on with Cups in Mdk7.2. In theory and at times in practice cups is a good thing. However, at the moment for poor buggers is very confused. I see where Mandrake is going

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-06 Thread John Rye
On Fri, 05 Jan 2001 19:14:46 +0100, Till Kamppeter said: The old packages do not need to exist for the update, but you should have a complete set of packages for being able to print: ..snip.. and to remove and install all the cups-related packages afterwards. In this case I recommend

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-06 Thread Thomas Walter
I installed the new rpms but nothing changed. A loopbackdevice is installed as shown in the mandrakeforum. What is printerdrake changing at my system, so that I can connect to the cups server after starting printerdrake? After starting printerdrake I get the following messages: Alles bereits

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
The old packages do not need to exist for the update, but you should have a complete set of packages for being able to print: With CUPS until 1.1.4-8mdk cups With CUPS from 1.1.4-9mdk on cups cups-common libcups1 In all cases in addition ghostscript cups-drivers The

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-03 Thread Mark Weaver
I had a similar problem with my Canon LBP430. The new CUPS and drivers work. Thank you for the pointer, and thank mandrake for the update! Kipling+ (Linux Newbie since 24 Dec 00) Ok...I have a dumb question. Do the old Cups packages have to exist on the system when the updates are loaded

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
It seems that you have an old version of CUPS with a bug. See http://www.mandrakeforum.com/commentShow.php3?sid=20001116101952pid=75 and go to http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001214090405 You will find updates for all CUPS-related packages there. To fix your problem, you

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-02 Thread Kipling Cooper
Till Kamppeter wrote: It seems that you have an old version of CUPS with a bug. See http://www.mandrakeforum.com/commentShow.php3?sid=20001116101952pid=75 and go to http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php3?sid=20001214090405 You will find updates for all CUPS-related packages

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-01 Thread Mark Weaver
On Monday 01 January 2001 08:51, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631. While trying to install the printer with Kups

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-01 Thread jason-snyder
Go to Drakeconf / startup services if you haven't already and make sure that CUPS is started when you machine boots. I hope this helps. I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a

Re: [newbie] Cups-printing-problems

2001-01-01 Thread Thomas Walter
Am Montag, 1. Januar 2001 16:28 schrieben Sie: On Monday 01 January 2001 08:51, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed. After installing my HP Deskjet 815C on lp1 with Printerdrake everything works fine, but after reboot I can't print or get a connection to the cupsdaemon via localhost:631.

Re: [newbie] cups problem

2000-12-01 Thread Till Kamppeter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Whenever I start MD7.2 (I switch off my pc when not in use) I have to go into Drakconf and setup my printer - all of the settings are still there, I just have to go through the motions of clicking on boxes until I get to "done". If I forget to do this and try to

Re: [newbie] CUPS and printpro in 7.2

2000-11-15 Thread Till Kamppeter
printpro is ESP Print Pro, a commercial extension of CUPS which also contains CUPS itself. It provides many printer drivers and graphical frontends for administration and printing. As I know, the version coming with Linux Mandrake is a demo which expires after one or three mounths. In reality,

Re: [newbie] Cups server problems

2000-11-12 Thread phil
On Monday 13 November 2000 03:41, you wrote: phil wrote: Hello, After running the Mandrake printer configuration tool I can print from Koffice and Konqueror but not from any other application. The desk top printer icon doesn't show any printers and when I run Kups I receive and error

Re: [newbie] Cups server problems

2000-11-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
phil wrote: Hello, After running the Mandrake printer configuration tool I can print from Koffice and Konqueror but not from any other application. The desk top printer icon doesn't show any printers and when I run Kups I receive and error message "Can't connect to cups server. Check

Re: [newbie] CUPS and the HP Deskjet Portable

2000-11-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
Did you really try all the three alternatives for the DeskJet 500, the "HP DeskJet, Foomatic + deskjet" and the "HP DeskJet Series, CUPS v1.1"? Especially the "GIMP-Print" drivers are of a very high quality. You also should check the options of the drivers, often a low resolution is set as

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