Re: [newbie] Printing to Window$ domain printers using CUPS and Samba

2002-05-14 Thread Terry Sheltra
Derek, Thanks for the info .. how would I be able to configure it using DHCP? Thanks! Terry On Tue, 2002-05-14 at 09:23, Derek Jennings wrote: On Tuesday 14 May 2002 1:58 pm, Terry Sheltra wrote: I'm still having trouble getting printing to work using MDK 8.2 using CUPS and Samba. I

Re: [newbie] Printing to Window$ domain printers using CUPS and Samba

2002-05-14 Thread Derek Jennings
Doesn't your DHCP always allocate IP addresses from the same subnet? You only need to put the broadcast address of your subnet into the CUPS configuration. You do not need the IP address of a particular host. So putting 192.168.1.255 in the config will cause all hosts on the 192.168.1 subnet

Re: [newbie] Printing Problems

2002-04-30 Thread Dimitris Ioannou
--- Roland Hughes [EMAIL PROTECTED] : My printer , a Canon S450, suddenly is printing everything twice as large as it should be. This includes fonts and graphics. I am using the cups system and have tried replacing the driver, from Linuxprinting.org's cups-o-matic system. Anyone come

Re: [newbie] Printing to windows domain printer using Samba and CUPS

2002-04-30 Thread K Montgomery
Terry, I'm not sure this will help, but I HAD the same problems in 8.1 that you seem to be having. I somehow conquered them when I installed 8.2, but I doubt the upgrade helped. I must have finally done something right. I even have the printer test page upon my wall as a trophy. ;) Here are

Re: [newbie] Printing PDF

2002-04-27 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Saturday 27 April 2002 11:46 am, shane wrote: On Saturday 27 April 2002 06:54, Gerald Waugh opened a general hailing frequency and transmitted to all open stations: When I try to print pdf files I get the following error; The application KGhostView (kghostview) crashed and caused the

Re: [newbie] printing in wp8 and 8.2

2002-04-15 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Mon, 15 Apr 2002 06:00:11 -0400, Jonathan Dlouhy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm running Mandrake 8.2 and have WordPerfect 8 installed. With version 8.1 I had no trouble printing from WP. Now after a clean install of version 8.2 I can't get WP to allow me to assign a destination to the

Re: [newbie] Printing with Windows Fonts

2002-04-15 Thread Derek Jennings
Solved it myself: Just in case someone has similar problems here is the solution. It was OpenOffice itself that was the problem. It could display any Truetype font but could not print them correctly. I think my mistake was in using ./spadmin to import my TT fonts into OpenOffice before using

Re: [newbie] Printing Problem under CUPS

2002-03-26 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 02:08, Guilherme Cirne wrote: Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble printing under CUPS v1.1.10 on LM 8.1. When I print a text file, the last line of each page doesn't come out. I believe this has something to do with the printable area, but how do I configure this? I

Re: [newbie] Printing Problem under CUPS

2002-03-26 Thread Guilherme Cirne
On Tuesday 26 March 2002 8:07 pm, you wrote: Have you tried changing printer drivers? You did not mention your orinter type, but generally the gimp-print drivers tend to work the best, or so I have been told. derek I have tried it on the following printers: - HP 695C - drivers: HP DeskJet

Re: [newbie] Printing.. lpr or cups

2002-03-16 Thread Joseph Braddock
I am only printing with Cups and it works under both KDE and Gnome. Under Gnome, usually the print dialog comes up with generic printer or something like that. I simply select the name of my printer from the dropdown list. I do happen to have both KDE and Gnome loaded, so I don't know if

Re: [newbie] Printing.. lpr or cups

2002-03-16 Thread Robin Turner
On Saturday 16 March 2002 20:07, damian wrote: hello everyone.. i've got one that is making me a little mad when it comes to printing. all kde applications that have a print option use CUPS + Gimp-print, which works well, however, all Gnome apps, staroffice, etc ( all non-KDE-specific apps

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-06 Thread Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC)
Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul Isn't Linux case sensitive i.e. user

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-06 Thread Gerald Waugh
On Wed, 06 Mar 2002, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: %_Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-06 Thread Michael
Gerald Waugh wrote: On Wed, 06 Mar 2002, Hylton Conacher (ZR1HPC) wrote: %_Paul wrote: On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising. But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data:

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-05 Thread Brian Parish
Paul, The user name mapping is done in /etc/samba/smbusers You can edit this file as root or use swat or webmin to set up the access If you haven't checked out webmin, I can recommend it Not too much you can't control from there! HTH Brian On Tue, 2002-03-05 at 05:15, Paul wrote: On 04 Mar

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-04 Thread Paul
On 04 Mar 2002 11:41:24 +1100 Brian wrote: Well, I turned it on and it looked promising But from the win2k machine I get a notice that logging into the account is refused? More data: user on win2k box: Paul user on linux box: paul I futzed with /etc/smbusers (added username map = line to

Re: [newbie] Printing from a windowz thing

2002-03-03 Thread Brian Parish
Yes, Samba is what does it, but don't be concerned about getting that going There's not much more to it than turning it on Just post again here if you have any problems with it Brian On Mon, 2002-03-04 at 07:00, Paul wrote: Hi all, Do I need to set up samba in order to get printing from a

Re: [newbie] Printing problems

2002-02-12 Thread Bryan Tyson
On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:00, you wrote: By the way, what is the difference between Cups and lpr ? Sorry for the stupid question : ), but I am a little bit confused with them. For me they seem to be totally different printing systems. Why do some programs use one instead of another ?

Re: [newbie] Printing problems

2002-02-12 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
On Tue, 12 Feb 2002 23:32:57 -0500, Bryan Tyson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 12 February 2002 17:00, you wrote: By the way, what is the difference between Cups and lpr ? Sorry for the stupid question : ), but I am a little bit confused with them. For me they seem to be totally

RE: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-30 Thread Evert van den Bos
januari 2002 3:25 To: newbie Subject: Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. Good

Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Brian Parish wrote: I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find it. This is slightly off the point, but I've been

Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-29 Thread Derek Jennings
On Tuesday 29 January 2002 15:22, Randy Kramer wrote: Brian Parish wrote: I have made a similar setup work. Just be aware that while windoze uses the IP address on the printer to find it, CUPS is using a hostname, so you need to put an entry for the printer in /etc/hosts so it can find

Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-29 Thread Randy Kramer
Derek Jennings wrote: Randy Kramer wrote: This is slightly off the point, but I've been wondering -- does CUPS run on top of Samba? I.e., must Samba be running for CUPS to work? No... CUPS is independent of Samba. If you have CUPS running in several computers they are all aware of each

Re: [newbie] printing to tcp/ip port

2002-01-28 Thread Derek Jennings
On Saturday 26 January 2002 13:34, Evert van den Bos wrote: Hello everybody, I would like to install my HP 970 cxi printer in Mandrake but I want to assign it to a tcp/ip port. My printer is not attached to the Mandrake box but to a freesco box acting as a printer server. In windows this is

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-13 Thread blinddog
Thanx for everyones help, go figure it now works, I dropped the file from Konqueror onto the printer icon and it printed with AbiWord formatting, I then went into Abi Word and as someone else stated it printed the last page only?? But I can request whichever page want and it will print that

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-13 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
- Original Message - From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word On Monday 12 November 2001 18:26, you wrote: I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-13 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 12 November 2001 23:20, you wrote: From: H.J.Bathoorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 7:10 PM Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word - Original Message - Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr command i.e

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:02, you wrote: Currently I am using Abi Word version version 0.9.2 and I cannot get it to print on Mandrake 8. The setting in Abi Word is Printer and command lpr. But nothing. I can print to file (ps) all OK, but when I print to the printer nothing happens.

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-12 Thread Gordon Burgess-Parker
H.J.Bathoorn wrote: On Tuesday 13 November 2001 04:02, you wrote: Currently I am using Abi Word version version 0.9.2 and I cannot get it to print on Mandrake 8. The setting in Abi Word is Printer and command lpr. But nothing. I can print to file (ps) all OK, but when I print to the printer

Re: [newbie] Printing with Abi Word

2001-11-12 Thread H.J.Bathoorn
On Monday 12 November 2001 18:26, you wrote: I had a related problem - Abiword would only print the LAST page of a document! Anyone got any clues about this? Abiword certainly isn't perfect yet, but it shouldn't/doesn't do that :-p Got anymore info? What printer? Were you using the lpr

Re: [newbie] Printing from StartOffice?

2001-08-19 Thread Sevatio
You need to run 'spadmin' as superuser. I should be located in the same folder as 'soffice'. Now let's go get the your printer's driver. If you're using LM8.0, you need to unzip (gzip -d filename.gz) /usr/share/cups/model/HP/DeskJet_882C-cdj880.ppd.gz into a new folder where 'spadmin' can

Re: [newbie] Printing from StartOffice?

2001-08-18 Thread Gabriel Arcos
Uh sorry did not read this one at first. Well there is a link that can help you: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/docs/hardware/hcups8.html one adittional thing: I have an epson stylus 400 printer, and I don't know why but in the StarOffice printer configuration I have to change postscript level 2

Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet

2001-08-13 Thread Charles Punch
Both Star Office and Word Perfect8 can print envelopes from an envelope slot. I use them both on a HP 632 deskjet. K word seems like it may be nice in the future, but it lacks a few desirable abilities. ShalomOut Chal Elder PCUSA Registered Linux user # 217118 "Dr. Evil" wrote: I have a

Re: [newbie] Printing envelopes from Mandrake on a Deskjet

2001-08-13 Thread Dr. Evil
Thanks for the tip. Unfortunately I have never been able to get Star Office to print! I need to look into that. In the future, Kword is going to be fantastic. MS may have some real competition from that corner. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to

Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including thecorrespondingfolders

2001-06-24 Thread Michel Clasquin
On Saturday 23 June 2001 17:36, Romanator wrote: How about the sub folders only? tree -d in fact, try man tree and you'll find a lot of options ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This message was posted from a

Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including thecorrespondingfolders

2001-06-24 Thread Romanator
Michel Clasquin wrote: On Saturday 23 June 2001 17:36, Romanator wrote: How about the sub folders only? tree -d in fact, try man tree and you'll find a lot of options ... -- Michel Clasquin, D Litt et Phil (Unisa) [EMAIL PROTECTED]/unisa.ac.za http://www.geocities.com/clasqm This

Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders

2001-06-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
Try the tree command. It's basically a clone of the old DOS programme. For details: $ man tree You can send the output to a text file for printing (or directly to a printer if you really want): $ tree filename Note that if there are many files this can take a *very* long

Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders

2001-06-23 Thread Miark
How about ls -lR | grep drwx lp or whatever the printer re-direct is. It may not be as pretty as you like it, but it's a start. You could write a script to re-format it. Miark - Original Message - From: Romanator [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2001

Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders

2001-06-23 Thread Peter Ruskin
On Sunday 24 June 2001 01:34, Miark wrote: How about ls -lR | grep drwx lp or whatever the printer re-direct is. It may not be as pretty as you like it, but it's a start. You could write a script to re-format it. [...] I think that should be ls -lR | grep drwx | lp, otherwise you should

Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders

2001-06-23 Thread Lanman
Roman, You're talking about printing a tree of folders? Nice idea. Can't see myself using it a lot, but what the hey. How about the option of customing the right-click menu for just about anything, or for repetitive jobs. Kinda like a wizard that sees the things you do most, and allows you to

Re: [newbie] Printing the root folder including the corresponding folders

2001-06-23 Thread Romanator
I would like the option of customizing the right-click menu. Sort'a like a kpanel for right-clicks. I like it already. Gotta get to work. Lanman wrote: Roman, You're talking about printing a tree of folders? Nice idea. Can't see myself using it a lot, but what the hey. How about the option

RE: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS

2001-06-20 Thread Norman Teferle
Tuan, many thanks. After spending 1.5 days trying to get my printer working from my Mandrake box I finally managed within one hour using CUPS. Cheers, Norman Tuan Duc Tran [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/20/01 03:12am Well, The best way to setup is using CUPS. First, I assumed you installed CUPS

RE: [newbie] printing to Laserjet 4000 Series PS

2001-06-19 Thread Tuan Duc Tran
Well, The best way to setup is using CUPS. First, I assumed you installed CUPS Second, you need to open browser (Ex. Netscape) and type http://localhost:631 it will ask you ROOT password. from this page you can add new printer. When it ask you the port; select app/jet direct. It will show

Re: [newbie] Printing with 8 - repost

2001-06-14 Thread poogle
On Thursday 14 June 2001 10:34, you wrote: I've not received any suggestions for this problem so am trying one last time. I can't seem to get my HP LJIII to print. The printer and cable work fine under DOS. It's connected to the only parallel port (lpt0? - LP1 in DOS). I try to set up

Re: [newbie] Printing from Star Office

2001-06-07 Thread Paul Cox
On Wednesday, Jun 06, 2001, Richard Davies wrote: I have Star Office 5.2 runing under Mandrake 7.2 with the printer HP Deskjet 52 set up under CUPS. It all works fine except that everytime I start Star Office it sets the printer resolution to 600 DPI and everything prints twice size so I

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-24 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear All, I finally have my Epson Stylus Color printing now that I added xpp, however the quality is horrrible. The colors are fine but the BW has banding through the letters. I have it configured with the cups+gimp print at adaptive hybrid, 360 dpi, and photograph. I tried 720 but that did

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-22 Thread Marcia Waller
On Monday 21 May 2001 21:10, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear Lanman and All, Thank you for the ftp site and suggestions. I did get the new cups. How would I check to see which version of cups is running now? Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config for the

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-22 Thread s
Thanks for your input Sean. I have an Epson 777, that I read is essentially the same as a 680, and had used 680, 760 860 drivers in past with success (before the addtion of 777). The 777 and others were real bad, while the 680 were only little better. I had never had to play around with

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-21 Thread Civileme
On Sunday 20 May 2001 15:06, Marcia Waller wrote: On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, s wrote: Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-21 Thread Marcia Waller
Dear Lanman and All, Thank you for the ftp site and suggestions. I did get the new cups. How would I check to see which version of cups is running now? Run the updates first, and delete your Epson printer, then do a fresh config for the printer. Assuming that Mars and Venus (?) are in proper

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-20 Thread Marcia Waller
On Friday 18 May 2001 20:12, s wrote: Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our choices - buy a HP, go back to 7.2, or do without a

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-20 Thread Lanman
Marcia; I've read about your problem, and I'd like to offer the following suggestions: 1) Go to the ftp site below, and download ALL the files to a separate folder, then run the software updater in Mandrake control Center. It's a fast site, and usually not busy.

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-18 Thread Marcia Waller
On Wednesday 16 May 2001 19:49, Marcia Waller wrote: Dear All, I just installed LM 8 after having LM 7.2 for awhile. I am having some problems getting decent printing quality with my Epson Stylus Color printer. I am using the cups + gimp printer driver which worked great in 7.2. I have

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-18 Thread Randy Kramer
Marcia, Is that an ink jet printer? Did you have it out of service very long while you upgraded from 7.2 to 8.0? Is there any chance a cartridge has clogged up? Do you have another computer that you can use to test the printer? Just some things to check. Randy Kramer Marcia Waller wrote:

Re: [newbie]printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-18 Thread s
Well, Marcia, I think we ought to quit wasting ink. Seems our Epson printers are also broken in 8.0. Mandrakesoft is being a little too quiet about these problems people are having. Anyway, our choices - buy a HP, go back to 7.2, or do without a printer until maybe it's fixed in 8.1. P.S.

Re: [newbie] printing with Cups in LM8

2001-05-18 Thread Sam
Hi Marcia, I had the same problem with my Epson Stylus Color 600 printer producing severely banded text output when I upgraded to LM8 from LM7.2. Moreover, there were also very long and painful pauses during the printing process - which were absent in LM7.2. I also use the CUPS+GIMP driver.

Re: [newbie] Printing in WordPerfect

2001-04-04 Thread David E. Fox
Dear All, I have the WordPerfect demo on my LM7.2 but cannot get printing to work with my Epson Stylus Color printer. My printer is not It's been sometime since I worked with WordPerfect, but if you can print with other applications, you probably should choose generic postscript, and have

Re: [newbie] Printing in WordPerfect

2001-04-04 Thread marcia
you probably should choose generic postscript, and have WordPerfct print through lpr or cups. Thank you for your help. I did that and it did the trick. It works fine, now, thanks. Sincerely, Marcia

Re: [newbie] printing via samba

2001-03-28 Thread Till Kamppeter
Can you send me the files /etc/smb.conf /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf and the output of the following commands (enter them in a terminal window): rpm -qa | grep samba rpm -qa | grep cups lpstat -t ps auxwww | grep smb ps auxwww | grep cups Till dede

Re: [newbie] Printing from Staroffice 5.2 under CUPS ?

2001-03-03 Thread Michael O'Henly
Hi Ron... I don't use SO so I can't help directly -- but here are a couple of links that should help. The first is for the Mandrakeuser.org site that discusses CUPS printing generally: http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups0.html The second talks about SO specifically:

Re: [newbie] Printing from Star Office

2001-02-25 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
If you printer has been set up to print from other apps via LPR or CUPS, then all you need to do is print as postscript (don't choose a driver for your specific printer). The print daemon will use its own driver to translate this to a language that your printer understands. On Sun, 25 Feb

Re: [newbie] Printing using lpd not CUPS

2001-02-23 Thread Sridhar Dhanapalan
If you do an expert install you get the option of using LPR or the newer CUPS. CUPS is generally better than LPR, but it still has a few teething problems, like hardware support. On Sat, 24 Feb 2001 00:05, Lionel Chan wrote: Greetings, Don't really know what's happening but I don't seem to

Re: [newbie] Printing in Cups

2001-01-16 Thread Michael O'Henly
Yes, I have this problem as well. I'm definitely interested in figuring this one out. M On Tuesday 16 January 2001 11:11, you wrote: Does anyone have the problem of not being able to change the margins on letter size paper? I have tried changing in inches or centimeters, saving, and then

Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)

2000-12-16 Thread Till Kamppeter
Please tell me which driver (CUPS + GIMP-print, Foomatic + stp, Foomatic + stcolor, ...) you use. Send me /etc/cups/cupsd.conf /etc/cups/printers.conf /etc/cups/ppd/*.ppd and tell me whether your printer is connected via USB or via the parallel port. Print also to a file from your

Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)

2000-12-13 Thread Till Kamppeter
What printer do you have? When you print to a file by choosing "File" and then "Print" and marking the "Print to file" check box in the printing dialog of Star Office, can you display this file with "gv"? Can you print the file with "xpp"? Till Terry C wrote: I followed the instructions

Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)

2000-12-13 Thread Terry C
I have an Epson 740. Some things have changed since I posted this message. I did an upgrade to the latest version of CUPS and I can now print. But all is still not well. When I print a StarOffice document the lpr print window comes up, I click on OK, and then the qtcups window comes up. I again

Re: [newbie] printing in StarOffice (again)

2000-12-13 Thread Terry C
Now that I'm home; here's the printer error message: Error /undefined in rce %stopped_;ush --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- fa lse 1 %stopped_push 1 3 %oparray_pop 1 3 %oparray_pop .runexec 2 --nostringval-- --nostringval-- --nostringval-- 2 %stopped_push --nostringval--

Re: [newbie] Printing problem

2000-12-02 Thread Till Kamppeter
Do the following: Do not reinstall Linux Mandrake 7.2. Try to print directly to the laser printer by entering (you can use any short text file): cat ~/.bashrc /dev/lp0 If this works (at least some of the text visible), there is a problem with the printer spooler (CUPS or LPD), otherwise

Re: [newbie] Printing problems with Kmail and Konqueror

2000-12-01 Thread Till Kamppeter
Scott and Janet Miller wrote: Printing to a file and viewing the output with gv displays the problems exactly as it's printed. When gv displays a file exactly as it appears on the printer, CUPS, GhostScript, and the printer driver work perfectly. The problem is in the PostScript file which

Re: [newbie] Printing problem

2000-11-27 Thread Till Kamppeter
Is your printer correctly connected and turned on, is there any ink in the cartridge? Can you print under Windows? Till Lionel Chan wrote: Hi, Here's my configuration: - LPT0 - HP 6L laser printer USB0 - HP deskjet 870Cxi I've installed 7.2 5 times. Other than the very 1st time

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Barry Premeaux wrote: I have the Epson Stylus Color 850. I took care of the light print quality by going to the 'Printer' icon on the desktop. Click on 'Properties' and 'Advanced'. You will find a folder called 'Extra' and a highlighted text after 'Quality'. When you click on the

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
Did you use the calibrate-gimpprint program? Did you try the different "Output Modes"? With which program did you print? Till Marcia wrote: Dear All, I finally got my Epson Stylus Color printer calibrated through the Cups webadmin. The Kups and printerdrake in my 7.2 distro did

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-22 Thread Till Kamppeter
With "Different output modes" I mean the printing option "Output mode". One can choose between "Photo", "Solid tones", "Line art", and "black and white". Look at the place where you have adjusted the resolution of the printer ("Configure printer" in web interface or after right-click on printer

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-22 Thread bpremeaux
On Tue, 21 November 2000, Marcia wrote: Barry, No, I have not tried the updates for Kups. How would I do that exactly? I am quite a newbie still with some things. I never did an update yet. Thank you. Marcia It's fairly straight forward. Log in on your ISP. Click on the Updates icon (or

Re: [newbie] Printing with STAR OFFICE

2000-11-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
to qtcups and xpp both of which respond but still do not print out the printer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Till Kamppeter Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2000 5:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Ed Santiago Subject: Re: [newbie] Printing with STAR

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-21 Thread Barry Premeaux
Marcia wrote: Till, I have KDE2 and have some of the same printer problems as John. I will report the bugs now that I know. Thanks, Marcia Have you tried the update on cups? The newest version is cups 1.1.4-5.1mdk. It is suppose to take care of some security issues and some of the bugs.

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-21 Thread Till Kamppeter
John Kintree wrote: Thanks to Till, Barry, Marcia, and other friends, Running the web administration tool for CUPS finally solved my problems. I have an Epson Stylus Color 400, and was getting the faint, poorly calibrated output, also. For some reason, changing the settings within kups

Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network

2000-11-20 Thread Till Kamppeter
The printer musthave a fixed IP, because it does server tasks. It is not possible to let it get an IP automatically from the DHCP server (the address would be everytime different). Do the following: Enter "ifconfig" and look which IP is assigned to the card for your local network. It is usually

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-20 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I finally got my Epson Stylus Color printer calibrated through the Cups webadmin. The Kups and printerdrake in my 7.2 distro did not do the trick. Everything was OK with the printing except still a little too light. Is there a way to make it darker? Then, all of a sudden every couple

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-20 Thread Barry Premeaux
Marcia, I have the Epson Stylus Color 850. I took care of the light print quality by going to the 'Printer' icon on the desktop. Click on 'Properties' and 'Advanced'. You will find a folder called 'Extra' and a highlighted text after 'Quality'. When you click on the highlighted text, it will

Re: [newbie] Printing with STAR OFFICE

2000-11-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Did you read also the text version of the Mandrakeuser.org document? The web pages are still not complete and only treat the installation/configuration of CUPS. An important point is, that you do not use the printer drivers of Star Office. Use the "Generic printer". This makes Star Office

Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network

2000-11-19 Thread Till Kamppeter
Philip Trauring wrote: BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. In DrakConf you get printerdrake, the thing which searches the network for printers is

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-19 Thread Barry Premeaux
John, Try a right mouse click on the title bar at the top of the frame. You will find a menu item called 'Decoration'. If you open this up, it will display a list of optional styles. I haven't changed mine as yet. If I can't retrain my mouse to go left instead of right, I'll look at the

Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network

2000-11-18 Thread Philip Trauring
BTW, why isn't this the same interface as when I click to configure a printer from DrakConfig? I figured it was the same an ran it a bunch of times before I realized it was not. Here's a problem - It automatically scans the subnet for my external NIC, but the printer is connected to the

Re: [newbie] Printing to print server with CUPS

2000-11-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
Eddie Torres wrote: I tried setting up lpr but everytime I try to use printtool or printdrake it asks me for the cd and wants to install CUPS. To use LPD you must start "printerdrake --lpr" or you install the "printtool" from the contribs. But your problem is easier to solve with CUPS. So

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
The best driver for your printer (Epson Stylus Color) is the EPSON Stylus Color, CUPS+GIMP-print v4.0 when you have set up this driver, make sure that you put the resolution to 360 or 720 dpi ("Configure Printer" button in http://localhost:631/printers/). Set also paper size and type

Re: [newbie] Printing

2000-11-18 Thread Till Kamppeter
Which printer model do you use? Did you set up the printer options after installing the driver as I explained it to you? Note that the option settings get lost when one changes the driver. If your printer is an HP inkjet, note that the drivers with "Foomatic + cdj880" and "Foomatic + cdj890" do

Re: [newbie] printing

2000-11-18 Thread Marcia
Dear All, I finally got my printer to work through the web interface admin. No other way would set it up. I think that my Kups admin does not work correctly nor does my printerdrake. My printer works for Abiword but does not print anything out for Kword. I tried to print out something from the

Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network

2000-11-18 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Fri, 17 Nov 2000, you wrote: I have Mandrake 7.2 installed and I have an HP Laserjet 4050TN on the same Ethernet network that I'd like to be able to print to. I presume that you installed CUPS, with this I got it working anyway There are two ways in which you can do this: a) TCP/IP

Re: [newbie] Printing to an HP Laserjet 4050TN over an Ethernet Network

2000-11-17 Thread Till Kamppeter
Start "kups", Choose "Printer", "Add". Choose "AppSocket" (or "Socket") as backend and on the next screen click on "Scan". You printer will appear in the list field. Now you click on it and then on "Next". As driver you can choose either The "HP 4050" drivers offered (they print in PCL mode) or

RE: [newbie]printing

2000-11-13 Thread Myers, Dennis R NWO
Title: RE: [newbie]printing Or, when you select the object or file you want, hold down the shift key and then click, you should get a save to box that will start the download to a location like /home/dennis/ filename. That is the quickest way I know of to start a download. You can change

Re: [newbie]printing

2000-11-13 Thread Ronald J. Hall
Dale Kosan wrote: You are using Netscape I bet,right click on the file or link and choose save as.The other way,as you have found out is not easy to understand.After all the code is done,go up to file,save as and you are done.Just easier to right click... You can also shift left

Re: [newbie]printing

2000-11-13 Thread Kevin Scott
In Netscape press and hold the shift key while you click the url to download the file. On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Marcia wrote: Dear All, I went to the site to download Cups and I got alot of computer language or code printout to my screen instead of an RPM package that I expected. I went to a

Re: [newbie] printing too light

2000-11-12 Thread Till Kamppeter
When you are using a GIMP-Print driver, then it is a bug of GIMP-Print (gimp-print.sourceforge.net). I have already made a new RPM package of the fixed version 4.02, this will be available soon. A quick fix is using an alternative driver, try HP LaserJet 3, Foomatic + ljet3 HP LaserJet

Re: [newbie]printing

2000-11-05 Thread Rolf Pedersen
Till et al: I've got a download 7.2 workstation (single computer/user) recommended install going here (good job!) and having a couple of problems with the printing. Cups is installed and loads at boot (message: Loading CUPS printing system) and cupsd shows up in kpm. My Canon BJC-2000 has 3

Re: [newbie]printing

2000-11-05 Thread Till Kamppeter
The installation of CUPS also includes GIMP-Print, very sophisticated drivers for colour inkjets, especially Epson. Look when you install your printer after you have installed CUPS, choose an entry in the printer list with "CUPS+GIMP-print v4.0". After the installation you can call

Re: [newbie] printing from kedit

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Jeff Malka wrote: Thank you. I will check out the man pages. I heard of a2ps. How would one implement it to use it quasi transparently? I'm a newbie still trying to keep afloat. Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - - 'enscript

Re: [newbie] printing from kedit

2000-10-22 Thread John Rye
Jeff Malka wrote: Thank you very much. Does it do the trick?? Cheers Jeff Malka [EMAIL PROTECTED] Registered Linux user 183185 - Original Message - From: John Rye [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [newbie] printing from kedit I've attached a gawk script file. I use

Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE

2000-10-15 Thread Larry Marshall
As far as I can tell at this time when I have a printing problem it has been with the defaults that application has for printing AND nothing to do with printcap, lpd, lpr, lpc, etc, etc, etc. To say the I think, as I interpret your msg, that the problem is that you don't have the filter for

Re: [newbie] Printing in KDE

2000-10-15 Thread Larry Marshall
Thanks for sharing Dennis. I'd try two things. First, just put "lp:" in front of the label "laserjet". I haven't done this with Linux but other versions of UNIX I've used allow this syntax (multiple labels). If that doesn't work, just replicate the laserjet definition and call it "lp"

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