Raspberry PI printer error message

2015-04-22 Thread Shlomo Solomon
First I want to say that printer installation has really improved since I last got a new printer a few years ago. In fact, I would even say that installing my new HP 8610 on Mageia and Raspberry PI (Raspbian) was even faster and easier than on Windows. But I did encounter something strange

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-22 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Wed, Aug 21, 2013 at 1:31 AM, E.S. Rosenberg esr+linux...@g.jct.ac.il wrote: 2013/8/19 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com: snip beyond the blood-like ink prices /snip I'm pretty sure blood is actually cheaper then ink here in Israel (the price of one serving [a half a liter I think] of

Re: OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
I have to concur with Hetz, I have gone through absolute hell with non-hp printers and their support of drivers. HP at least has an officially supported OSS driver project and drivers that generally function The best is to use linuxprinting.org to check if the printer has good (preferably OSS

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-20 Thread E.S. Rosenberg
2013/8/19 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com: snip beyond the blood-like ink prices /snip I'm pretty sure blood is actually cheaper then ink here in Israel (the price of one serving [a half a liter I think] of blood product for a hospital is about 178 NIS)

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
and in most cases the printer simply works out of the box. FWIW I've I currently have / use 4 different HP printers: - LaserJet 1212MFP (Works just fine as a printer and scanner, fax firmware is problematic). - OfficeJet 6700 (Two days old. No comments thus far). - OfficeJet 5784 (4.5 [!] years

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On 8/19/2013 10:35 AM, Gilboa Davara wrote: Beyond the obvious (cups, x/sane), HPLIP toolbox more or less mirror's the HP Window toolbox minus the all the bloatware and in most cases the printer simply works out of the box. If you download the CORPORATE windows drivers for your HP printer you

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: If you download the CORPORATE windows drivers for your HP printer you get it without the bloatware. True, but even the HP corporate drivers tend to be big, slow and have a fairly complex installation

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread ronys
Hi, Thanks to all for your replies. Based on them and reviews, I've decided on an HP Officejet Pro 8600+ (710 NIS, picking it up this evening). Will let the honorable forum know if I find any surprises with this, for better or worse. Cheers, Rony

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-19 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
וירטואליזציה. טלפון: 054-5297156 אתם מוזמנים לבקר אותנו בבלוג היעוץ שלנו 2013/8/19 Gilboa Davara gilb...@gmail.com: On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 11:05 AM, Geoffrey S. Mendelson geoffreymendel...@gmail.com wrote: If you download the CORPORATE windows drivers for your HP printer you get it without

Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread ronys
Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like network connectivity (pref. via

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. --- Omer On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:29 +0300, ronys wrote: Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has

OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-18 Thread Omer Zak
On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:41 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. OOPS, I

Re: OOPS, I meant MFC-490CW (Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?)

2013-08-18 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
: On Sun, 2013-08-18 at 10:41 +0300, Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. I am an happy user of the Brother MFC-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. OOPS, I meant

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 18/08/13 10:41, Omer Zak wrote: I would say that today it's anything but HP - unless things changed for the better during the last two or so years. Please elaborate. Shachar ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 18/08/13 10:29, ronys wrote: Greetings, My trusty HP all-in-one has finally gone to the great bit-bucket in the sky after one of the scanner lid hinges broke, and I'm looking for a replacement. This is for home use: Color printing is required by family members. Other than that, I'd like

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
connectivity (pref. via Ethernet, not WiFi), and of course Linux-friendliness. I got myself a new printer/scanner for exactly the same reason a few weeks ago. I don't know where anything but HP comes from. I got another HP, and just like the previous one it worked right out of the box, no issues

Re: Recommendations for an all-in-one printer/fax/scanner?

2013-08-18 Thread Oron Peled
-490W printer-FAX-scanner-copier. * Can you enlighten us where did you get the drivers? (for ALL functions). * I did google'd and found deb/rpm BINARIES for this printer in Brother's site. * Are there FOSS-licensed sources? (not hidden behind click-walls) -- this is the only interesting question

Re: Re: Printer

2012-09-25 Thread Tom Balazs
Subject: Re: printer Message-ID: 20120922195817.60207997@ shlomo1.solomon Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Tom and Guy - since you both mentioned printers that do scan when there's no ink, I'd be happy to know what specific models. And it goes without saying that the scanning must

Re: printer

2012-09-24 Thread Guy Gold
On Sat, Sep 22, 2012 at 12:58 PM, Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.comwrote: Tom and Guy - since you both mentioned printers that do scan when there's no ink, I'd be happy to know what specific models. And it goes without saying that the scanning must work under Linux. Mine is Brother

Printer

2012-09-22 Thread Tom Balazs
Keep in mind that if you print mostly black and white (greyscale) documents that a laser printer is MUCH cheaper when you consider the price of toner / cartridges. Also, inkjet printers use up the color cartridge even if you only print only greyscale documents (why?). In both laser and inkjet

Re: printer

2012-09-22 Thread Amichai Rotman
to fix and buy Toner etc.). Make note of some of the models you find interesting and check them against this resource: OpenPrinting Printer List http://openprinting.org/printers My mom bought the following printer: Samsung SCX4623F http://www.zap.co.il/model.aspx?modelid=745898 and she is very

Re: printer

2012-09-22 Thread Shlomo Solomon
them against this resource: OpenPrinting Printer List http://openprinting.org/printers My mom bought the following printer: Samsung SCX4623F http://www.zap.co.il/model.aspx?modelid=745898 and she is very pleased. Haven't tried it with Linux though... This specific model isn't

Re: printer

2012-09-21 Thread Shlomo Solomon
On a related note, do you know if the scanning and faxing on this (or any other) printer works when there's no ink? My scanner died and I thought of buying a multi-function as a replacement, since all the scanners I found were expensive. But I do VERY little printing and don't want to be forced

Re: printer

2012-09-21 Thread Shachar Shemesh
On 09/19/2012 06:45 PM, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Which multifunctional printer for home (SOHO) would you recommend to purchase from available currently in Israel? Which store network? Thanks Mac OsX uses CUPS for printing, so, lately, pretty much all of them are supported. YMMV, of course

Re: printer

2012-09-21 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri, Sep 21, 2012 at 9:25 AM, Shlomo Solomon shlomo.solo...@gmail.comwrote: On a related note, do you know if the scanning and faxing on this (or any other) printer works when there's no ink? My scanner died and I thought of buying a multi-function as a replacement, since all the scanners

printer

2012-09-19 Thread Constantine Shulyupin
Which multifunctional printer for home (SOHO) would you recommend to purchase from available currently in Israel? Which store network? Thanks ___ Linux-il mailing list Linux-il@cs.huji.ac.il http://mailman.cs.huji.ac.il/mailman/listinfo/linux-il

Re: printer

2012-09-19 Thread Ori Idan
On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Constantine Shulyupin co...@makelinux.co.il wrote: Which multifunctional printer for home (SOHO) would you recommend to purchase from available currently in Israel? Which store network? I have HP OfficeJet 4500 works great with Ubuntu, I don't remember any

Re: printer

2012-09-19 Thread Omer Zak
I have good experience with Brother MFC-490CW. It combines ink jet color printing, photocopying, scanning and FAXing. There is a separate ink cartridge for each color - total 4. --- Omer On Wed, 2012-09-19 at 18:45 +0300, Constantine Shulyupin wrote: Which multifunctional printer for home

Re: printer

2012-09-19 Thread Steve G.
Get a laser printer, HP and Brother are Linux friendly, but check available models online. I have used both with Linux. Not sure about Israel, in the US you pay for the ink more than for the printer. Especially if you don't use it much, it dries and dies anyway. And the printer is not programmed

Printer name get changed when installing a driver from Smaba server

2011-03-29 Thread Israel Shikler
I have installed the latest version of Samba (3.5.8) to work as a print server. When installing a new printer from Windows/7 , and supplying the driver name from Samba server, the printer name gets changed to driver name. The only fix to this , is to go the share tab of windows , copy the share

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-26 Thread Michael Vasiliev
On 23/12/2009 21:01, Oron Peled wrote: On Wednesday, 23 בDecember 2009 17:26:09 Michael Vasiliev wrote: Not all HP MFT's are born equal. Mine is not partially supported in linux (no scanning support by sane and no duplexing support by hplip) Care to elaborate? (exact model, so

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-23 Thread Michael Vasiliev
and fully supports SANE. Thanks, Hetz 2009/12/21 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com mailto:elaz...@gmail.com Can anyone recommend a combined scanner and printer (so that the photocopying and the faxing capabiities can be used autonomously, even when

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-23 Thread Tom Goren
, We had this discussion a month ago here on this mailing list. HP's solution working really well under Linux and fully supports SANE. Thanks, Hetz 2009/12/21 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com Can anyone recommend a combined scanner and printer (so that the photocopying and the faxing

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 23 בDecember 2009 17:26:09 Michael Vasiliev wrote: Not all HP MFT's are born equal. Mine is not partially supported in linux (no scanning support by sane and no duplexing support by hplip) Care to elaborate? (exact model, so others can avoid it). -- Oron Peled

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-23 Thread Dotan Cohen
Not all HP MFT's are born equal. Mine is not partially supported in linux (no scanning support by sane and no duplexing support by hplip) Which model? -- Dotan Cohen http://what-is-what.com http://gibberish.co.il ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
/12/21 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com Can anyone recommend a combined scanner and printer (so that the photocopying and the faxing capabiities can be used autonomously, even when the computer is off) which works reasonably well with linux? Going through the exhaustive scanners list

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-21 Thread Gilboa Davara
On Mon, 2009-12-21 at 09:03 +0200, Elazar Leibovich wrote: Can anyone recommend a combined scanner and printer (so that the photocopying and the faxing capabiities can be used autonomously, even when the computer is off) which works reasonably well with linux? Going through the exhaustive

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-21 Thread Dotan Cohen
2009/12/21 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com: Can anyone recommend a combined scanner and printer (so that the photocopying and the faxing capabiities can be used autonomously, even when the computer is off) which works reasonably well with linux? Going through the exhaustive scanners list

combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-20 Thread Elazar Leibovich
Can anyone recommend a combined scanner and printer (so that the photocopying and the faxing capabiities can be used autonomously, even when the computer is off) which works reasonably well with linux? Going through the exhaustive scanners list in SANE's site, and matching every model with its

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-20 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Elazar, We had this discussion a month ago here on this mailing list. HP's solution working really well under Linux and fully supports SANE. Thanks, Hetz 2009/12/21 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com Can anyone recommend a combined scanner and printer (so that the photocopying

Re: combined printer and scanner for linux

2009-12-20 Thread Elazar Leibovich
on this mailing list. HP's solution working really well under Linux and fully supports SANE. Thanks, Hetz 2009/12/21 Elazar Leibovich elaz...@gmail.com Can anyone recommend a combined scanner and printer (so that the photocopying and the faxing capabiities can be used autonomously, even

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Diego Iastrubni
I have an HP printer/fax/scanner here. Nice piece of HW. I connected it to the wireless network, and under Windows it's a charm. Under linux, I can print to it from the network. They have this nice web interface from which you you can scan, I did not manage to get the scanner working directly

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Oron Peled
On Friday, 23 בOctober 2009 13:09:31 Diego Iastrubni wrote: I have an HP printer/fax/scanner here. Nice piece of HW. I connected it to the wireless network, and under Windows it's a charm. Model? My HP Officejet 6313 is connected to the network (I didn't want the wireless model due to security

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Diego Iastrubni
Hi Oron, See comments inline: On Friday 23 October 2009 13:49:08 you wrote: On Friday, 23 בOctober 2009 13:09:31 Diego Iastrubni wrote: (I should fix kmail's translation...) the wireless model due to security: Whats wrong about WPA2+do not broadcast the SSID? Model? My HP Officejet 6313

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
Omer, Check out http://www.linuxprinting.org/ or go directly to http://www.openprinting.org/printer_list.cgi (you can get to it from the first link if you go to fatabase - Printers). -- Oleg Goldshmidt | p...@goldshmidt.org ___ Linux-il mailing list

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-23 Thread Omer Zak
Hello Oleg, Thanks for the link. However my purpose in asking for recommendations was to get feedback from actual people, who actually print under Linux. When buying the CX3200, I vetted it using Linux compatibility guides and it indeed proved to be compatible (both printing and scanning).

Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-21 Thread Omer Zak
I got fed up with the ink-guzzling behavior of my Epson Stylus CX3200 and would like to buy a new printer. And of course, it needs to be fully supported by Linux. Which manufacturers are OK today (for example, is Lexmark X2620, currently offered in a sale by Bezeq, OK)? Which printer/s available

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-21 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
cheap: the top of the line (8500 Pro AIO) costs 900 NIS Thanks, Hetz On Wed, Oct 21, 2009 at 9:13 PM, Omer Zak w...@zak.co.il wrote: I got fed up with the ink-guzzling behavior of my Epson Stylus CX3200 and would like to buy a new printer. And of course, it needs to be fully supported by Linux

Re: Current recommendations for Linux-compatible printer?

2009-10-21 Thread Amos Shapira
+1 for HP. We now have a 7230 all-in-one with saparate ink cartridges but what I like most about it is that it's a network printer so it serves all computers in the house without being dependent on my linus desktop and I can even send photos to print directly from my mobile (did it once). Price

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Boaz Rymland
feedback from someone I work for that their HP printer (not sure which model) drivers needed 300MB(!) of free disk space to install. That's what I call abusing, but hey - Windows users should not be surprised too much, I guess, but rather accept the verdict and follow the masses quietly

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi, - HP drivers for Windows can indeed be a pain. I've heard feedback from someone I work for that their HP printer (not sure which model) drivers needed 300MB(!) of free disk space to install. That's what I call abusing, but hey - Windows users should not be surprised too much, I

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Sun, Mar 16, 2008 at 09:51:15AM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: - HP drivers for Windows can indeed be a pain. I've heard feedback from someone I work for that their HP printer (not sure which model) drivers needed 300MB(!) of free disk space to install. That's what I call abusing, but hey

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-16 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
That's not really true. The 300mb package includes all sorts of extras including scanning programs, web publishing, OCR, etc. AFAIK, you can't seperate them from just the printer drivers. Actually you have basically 2 options: 1. You can download the basic package driver from HP's web

printer recommendations, CISS

2008-03-13 Thread Michael Jaffe
--0-472307128-1205398971=:73169 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit I agree with the observation that HP is the best of the major printer manufacturers with respect to Linux. I recently purchased a Canon iP4300 and had to make do, at first, with using

Re: printer recommendations, CISS

2008-03-13 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Hi Michael, I agree with the observation that HP is the best of the major printer manufacturers with respect to Linux. I recently purchased a Canon iP4300 and had to make do, at first, with using one third party driver for monochrome printing and another for color. Only lately has Canon

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-13 Thread Dotan Shavit
HP OfficeJet 5610 I'm very happy with it. # On Wednesday 12 March 2008, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. The required/preferred specs

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-13 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
On 3/12/08, Boaz Rymland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I have had an HP (6213, I believe - I am not next to it so i can't check) for quite some time. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output

all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Boaz Rymland
Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. The required/preferred specs are: - having good printer drivers under Linux. - working scanner functionality under Linux is highly

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 02:15:52PM +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: - having good printer drivers under Linux. Fairly easy to find. - working scanner functionality under Linux is highly desirable. Look up the SANE pages. Pay special attention to features you want or need. For example one scanner

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/03/2008, Boaz Rymland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. The required/preferred specs are: - having good printer drivers under Linux

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Omer Zak
On Wed, 2008-03-12 at 14:15 +0200, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. I'll probably go for ink printer since I don't print too much and printing color output would be useful. Avoid Epson Stylus CX3200 and similar printers. While all of its functions

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Dotan Cohen
On 12/03/2008, Omer Zak [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Avoid Epson Stylus CX3200 and similar printers. While all of its functions work under Linux, it was designed to waste ink. Each power cycling wastes some ink. Also, its ink cartridges contain a chip preventing them from refilled. If

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Oron Peled
On Wednesday, 12 בMarch 2008, Boaz Rymland wrote: Hi, I'm looking into buying an all-in-one printer. ... If you can share some of your experience that would be great! Generally, all HP printers are supported in Linux. I currently have an Officejet-6313 and before that had an PSC series one

Re: all-in-one ink printer : looking for recommendations

2008-03-12 Thread Amos Shapira
great using SANE. There should be a way to send a fax directly but I did not find it. The printer also contains card reader that works great under Linux. I can second Ori's testimony with a PSC 2410 we have for two years and works perfectly. That said, I just noticed that a colour laser

Re: Recommending a good printer.

2007-10-24 Thread Leonid Podolny
in the asterisk hardware thread. Could you please write a new mail every time you mean to start a new thread? Sorry again. Meir Michanie wrote: Office depot is selling a laser printer samsung 1610 (350 shekel after refund) It is a truly plug and play with ubuntu and cups. A total different experience from

Re: Recommending a good printer.

2007-10-24 Thread Yuval Hager
On Wednesday 24 October 2007, Shlomo Solomon wrote: I'm also looking for a laser printer. My current favourite is the Xerox 3117, but I haven't bought it yet. It's under 300 shekels on ZAP and gets great reccomendations. As I understand, it works in Linux (although it seems CUPS recognizes

Recommending a good printer.

2007-10-23 Thread Meir Michanie
Office depot is selling a laser printer samsung 1610 (350 shekel after refund) It is a truly plug and play with ubuntu and cups. A total different experience from lexmark that rather you needed to install their own closed driver or emulate an HP printer

Re: Recommending a good printer.

2007-10-23 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Meir, You might want to check which cartidge do you get with the printer (make sure it's not some sort of economic cartridge which means it is less then half full), and you should also check how much a replacement cartidge costs.. You really don't want to buy a 350NIS laser printer, only

Re: Recommending a good printer.

2007-10-23 Thread Meir Michanie
On the Lexmark 232 I printed thousands of pages with one catridge. On the second catridge the printer start chunking on paper. for 350 I will not cry if I have to throw it away. It is far better deal that buying any ink jet printer. Hetz Ben Hamo wrote: Meir, You might want to check which

Re: Recommending a good printer.

2007-10-23 Thread Shlomo Solomon
I'm also looking for a laser printer. My current favourite is the Xerox 3117, but I haven't bought it yet. It's under 300 shekels on ZAP and gets great reccomendations. As I understand, it works in Linux (although it seems CUPS recognizes it as a Samsung ml-1210). Here's a link

RESEND: SOLVED: Re: Printer problem after upgrade from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch

2007-06-03 Thread Omer Zak
needed not only to set permissions on /dev/usb/lp0 but also to set the right URI for the printer. The previous udev rule for the printer was (after fixing syntax errors immediately after upgrade from Debian Sarge to Debian Etch): KERNEL==lp[0-9]*, SYSFS{serial}==xx, SYSFS{manufacturer

Re: connect to remote smb printer via cups

2007-01-20 Thread ik
On 1/20/07, Dan Kenigsberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dear List, I fail to set up SMB printers on my FC6 box. system-config-printer seems to add the printer well, and reports that the printer is accessible. I can connect and print to the remote printer with smbclient and with /usr/lib/cups

Re: connect to remote smb printer via cups

2007-01-20 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
On Sat, Jan 20, 2007 at 11:08:37AM +0200, ik wrote: I had a similar problem, and it turned out that foomatic crashes the printer drivers every time cups wishes to start actually do something with the job (that is not a queue). Look at /tmp/ and see if you have a foomatic.error or something

connect to remote smb printer via cups

2007-01-19 Thread Dan Kenigsberg
Dear List, I fail to set up SMB printers on my FC6 box. system-config-printer seems to add the printer well, and reports that the printer is accessible. I can connect and print to the remote printer with smbclient and with /usr/lib/cups/backend/smb. I can send jobs to cups with lpr

Re: Is there a way to print to this printer from linux

2006-03-13 Thread Oded Arbel
god you only need the left mouse button. (Geoff, when was the last time you set up CUPS? :-) [The following is tested on Debian Sarge, YMMV] It's fine for the initial setup. However the cups web interface is a pain to use for simple modifications in the printer config. For instance, if you

Re: Is there a way to print to this printer from linux

2006-03-12 Thread Tzafrir Cohen
was the last time you set up CUPS? :-) [The following is tested on Debian Sarge, YMMV] It's fine for the initial setup. However the cups web interface is a pain to use for simple modifications in the printer config. For instance, if you got something a bit wrong in the URL, you'll have to go

Is there a way to print to this printer from linux

2006-03-10 Thread Rafi Gordon
Hi, We have at office a printer which is connected directly to the LAN. (It is **not** connected as a slave for any PC). It has a local IP address. Is there a way to print to this printer from a linux client ? I know that there is a linux driver for this printer. (But I am not talking of course

Re: Is there a way to print to this printer from linux

2006-03-10 Thread Geoffrey S. Mendelson
On Fri, Mar 10, 2006 at 12:42:32PM +0200, Rafi Gordon wrote: Hi, We have at office a printer which is connected directly to the LAN. (It is **not** connected as a slave for any PC). It has a local IP address. Is there a way to print to this printer from a linux client ? I know

Re: Is there a way to print to this printer from linux

2006-03-10 Thread Hetz Ben Hamo
Sure you can. you can set things up with CUPS, or if you want the real easy way, use KDE printer configurations. Let KDE printer configuration scan your IP address range (or tell it directly what is the printer's IP address). Also, most of the times the port to talk to the printer's IP address

Re: Is there a way to print to this printer from linux

2006-03-10 Thread Aviram Jenik
On Friday 10 March 2006 13:20, Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote: CUPS is very tricky to set up, Yeah, it's at least 10 mouse clicks, not all of them on the next button. Thank god you only need the left mouse button. (Geoff, when was the last time you set up CUPS? :-) Geoff. - Aviram

no printer icon on KDE desktop

2005-05-06 Thread shlomo Solomon
Hi, This is probably trivial, but after GOOGLEing for half an hour, I've given up. I wanted to show a friend (a Windows user) how easy using KDE is. Among other things, I wanted to show him **drag-and-drop** printing. But then I discovered that I don't have a printer icon on the desktop. I

Re: no printer icon on KDE desktop

2005-05-06 Thread Aviv Goll
shlomo Solomon wrote: Hi, This is probably trivial, but after GOOGLEing for half an hour, I've given up. I wanted to show a friend (a Windows user) how easy using KDE is. Among other things, I wanted to show him **drag-and-drop** printing. But then I discovered that I don't have a printer icon

Re: no printer icon on KDE desktop

2005-05-06 Thread shlomo Solomon
. But then I discovered that I don't have a printer icon on the desktop. I know it existed in previous versions of MDK, and I never noticed that the icon was missing from my MDK 10.1, since I've never had the need to use **drag-and-drop** printing. How can I create the icon? I've tried

Printing from Linux to a Windows XP Shared Printer

2005-04-13 Thread Shlomo Dubrowin
I'm running Linux at home and my wife's computer has the printer, she's running Win XP. I shared her printer, but I can't seem to configure/find the printer on her machine. I tried the wizard in Red Hat to add a new SMB printer, but it never comes back with the printer, and I can't seem to find

RE: Printing from Linux to a Windows XP Shared Printer

2005-04-13 Thread Amir Binyamini
PROTECTED] Reply-To: Shlomo Dubrowin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: linux-il@linux.org.il Subject: Printing from Linux to a Windows XP Shared Printer Date: Wed, 13 Apr 2005 12:18:20 +0300 I'm running Linux at home and my wife's computer has the printer, she's running Win XP. I shared her printer, but I

RE: using CUPS to send to a file rather to a printer.

2004-12-09 Thread softkol
Oleg , thanks for the info , however what I am trying to do or more accurate need to do is slightly different: I am getting a pdf file which I need to convert to PCL printed file, and not sent directly to the printer , because it has to be pipe to another program or to be more precise

Re: using CUPS to send to a file rather to a printer.

2004-12-09 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Oleg , thanks for the info , however what I am trying to do or more accurate need to do is slightly different: I am getting a pdf file which I need to convert to PCL printed file, and not sent directly to the printer , because it has to be pipe

All test page (printer) is black

2004-12-09 Thread Offer Kaye
Hi, I'm trying to setup my printer. I'm using Mepis+KDE 3.2.3. I opened Start menu ( the KDE logo) - System - Settings - Printing Manager, that opened up a window called Configure - Printing Manager. There I used a wizard to setup my printer (uses CUPS). The problem is, this wizard has a test page

Re: All test page (printer) is black

2004-12-09 Thread Offer Kaye
On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 16:02:18 -0500, Offer Kaye wrote: like brightness, contrast etc., all with values between 0-1. The problem is, I don't know what I should choose as settings, so I won't get a black page. Okay, found the answer at:

Re: All test page (printer) is black

2004-12-09 Thread Omer Zak
1. Which printer, driver, CUPS package version? 2. When you print from an app, what does Print Review show? 3. Did you try to change the page color (if your printer is color printer)? 4. How does the printer behave when connected to another PC and/or printed to from another OS or a different

using CUPS to send to a file rather to a printer.

2004-12-08 Thread softkol
Hi , I need a way to send a file using CUPS lpr to file rather to a printer. I have tried every list of Linux , but to no avail. Any ideas? Best Regards, Israel Shikler Phone : 972-3-5348938 Mobile : 972-52-8885100 Fax: 972-3-5348967

Re: using CUPS to send to a file rather to a printer.

2004-12-08 Thread Oleg Goldshmidt
softkol [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I need a way to send a file using CUPS lpr to file rather to a printer. I am not sure I understand this. In my mind, printing to a file is equivalent to converting the original file into PostScript. Is this what you are trying to do? Why do you insist

mouse freezes when printer turned off

2004-11-20 Thread Offer Kaye
Hi, My mouse freezes when I turn my printer (an Epson Stylus CX3200, actually a Multi-Function device) off. In other words, the on-screen pointer will not move even though I move my mouse, and even though the mouse still receives power (is still lighted) I'm using Mandrake 10.0 and an IntelliMouse

Re: mouse freezes when printer turned off

2004-11-20 Thread Omer Zak
Check for hardware problems with your USB subsystem. 1. Are the printer and mouse connected via the same USB hub? 2. If yes, does the hub get power from its own power supply? 3. What happens if you unplug and replug the mouse? 4. If your PC has more than one USB connector, what happens if you

RE: mouse freezes when printer turned off

2004-11-20 Thread Kovriga, Gregory
I had a similar problem: USB mouse freeze when moving the mouse and while Control key is pressed. Googling on the net I found similar problem, and the solution was to turn of legacy USB emulation in BIOS. Thanks, Gregory. To

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread David Harel
I really don't understand your sarcasm. I guess you are making a fool of me but I still didn't get it. Yet I do not know how to fix the problem. Is it a driver issue or merely a setup issue I did not do correctly? Omer Zak wrote: Of course, the printer driver is having a serious problem

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Omer Zak
Hello David, I apologize if you were offended by my sarcasm-sounding message. It was not my intention. My intention was only to laugh about the situation - that someone has a problem with none other than a printer driver!!! Several years after RMS had his printer driver problem. Anyway

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Daniel Feiglin
I don't understand the sarcasm either. Sarcasm is the cheapest form of wit. I have a similar setup with Win 98 SE clients using an HP 5550 on a Linux/Samba setup. (For what it's worth, I'm using SuSE 9.1, kernel 2.6.5-7.111, KDE 3.2 and Samba 3.0.2a-5.1) 1. Set up your printer under Linux

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread David Harel
Thank you for your reply but, It seems to me you confused things. The printer is physically attached to a MS machine and is shared. It works OK on the MS machine. All I want to do is use it from my Linux. I do not see what it has to do with samba server part. As it seems to me, the files I want

Re: [ :-) ] Re: printer driver issue.

2004-10-25 Thread Yedidyah Bar-David
On Mon, Oct 25, 2004 at 12:11:30PM +0200, Daniel Feiglin wrote: I don't understand the sarcasm either. Sarcasm is the cheapest form of wit. Omer did not intend to be saracastic, he only refered to Richard Stallman, who quit MIT after getting a printer with no source for the printer driver, being

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