On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 05:08:11PM -0500, Dale wrote:
Every time I upgrade CUPS or hplip, I go to a Konsole and type in
hp-setup as root. A window pops up and I just set the printer up again,
it's GUI based. So far, that has worked. Don't jinx it tho. lol
If needed, I go to my web
Good morning, Andreas!
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 07:15:36PM +0200, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
Am Sonntag, 8. Juni 2014, 17:48:09 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
. What is all this trying to tell me? I've tried for over an hour to
make sense of it, but my eyes just glaze over. My best guess is that
Hi, Alan.
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 11:47:32PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
For Alan Mackenzie's benefit, a little back story:
The whole topic of printing is a mess, no single mere mortal can wrap
their wits around it.
Long long ago a printer was a piece of hardware you plugged into a
serial
Are you still here, still listening? Ye gods, this mail is 5x longer
than I thought it would be. I personally have given up on printing
period. I either randomly hit useful looking buttons in KDE's config
widget hoping it will work, or at work I print to PDF, put it on a USB
dongle and wander
On 09/06/2014 12:28, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
Hi, Alan.
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 11:47:32PM +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:
For Alan Mackenzie's benefit, a little back story:
[...]
Many years ago, HP developed a fancy printing language for their laser
printers called PostScript[1].
Wasn't it
Hi, Gentoo.
I'm getting back to trying to update my system again, after having lost
the thread back in February. I've lost hour after hour after hour with
portage's failure to maintain consistency in its internal structures on
my system. Sometimes I think it would have been better for me to
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 15:48:09 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
(net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
merge) pulled in by net-print/cups-filters:0 required by
@__auto_slot_operator_replace_installed__
=net-print/cups-filters-1.0.43-r1[foomatic] required by
Am Sonntag, 8. Juni 2014, 17:48:09 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
. What is all this trying to tell me? I've tried for over an hour to
make sense of it, but my eyes just glaze over. My best guess is that
cups-filters and foomatic-filters are packages which can't be installed
together. But I
Hi, Neil.
On Sun, Jun 08, 2014 at 05:11:20PM +0100, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 8 Jun 2014 15:48:09 +, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
(net-print/cups-filters-1.0.53::gentoo, ebuild scheduled for
merge) pulled in by net-print/cups-filters:0 required by
On 08/06/2014 19:15, Andreas K. Huettel wrote:
Am Sonntag, 8. Juni 2014, 17:48:09 schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
. What is all this trying to tell me? I've tried for over an hour to
make sense of it, but my eyes just glaze over. My best guess is that
cups-filters and foomatic-filters are packages
Alan McKinnon wrote:
And I haven't even touched on CUPS' feature that requires you to
delete and re-add back all your printers after any remerge. Ask Dale
about this, he's the resident expert and he's even figured out how to
get hplip to work.
Every time I upgrade CUPS or hplip, I go to a
On 06/08/2014 03:08 PM, Dale wrote:
Every time I upgrade CUPS or hplip, I go to a Konsole and type in
hp-setup as root. A window pops up and I just set the printer up again,
it's GUI based. So far, that has worked. Don't jinx it tho. lol
Yep, same here. I read a lot of horror stories
On 09/06/2014 00:08, Dale wrote:
Alan McKinnon wrote:
And I haven't even touched on CUPS' feature that requires you to
delete and re-add back all your printers after any remerge. Ask Dale
about this, he's the resident expert and he's even figured out how to
get hplip to work.
Every time I
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