This program is really one of the most strange things concerning printing and the trick you must apply for making it printing in colour on every arbitrary printer is VERY FAR from newbie friendly (even experts have problems with printing with WP, we are on the expert list here). The problem is that "passthrough PostScript" only generates black and white PostScript (colours are grayscaled). There is no generic PostScript in colour, and CUPS needs PostScript in colour so that one get colour printouts on every printer supported by Mandrake 7.2. So I tried simply to search for an arbitrary colour PostScript printer in the printer's list and found some models. The "HP Colour LaserJet PS" does not work, the driver does not produce pure PostScript. I succeeded with the "Tektronix Phaser 140". Perhaps other drivers work, too. Another possibility would be to choose the printer you have (mostly you will not find it) and print to a raw queue. You must really set up an extra queue without driver on your print server, because one cannot enter a printing command in WP and so one cannot say "lpr -o raw", this also prevents from having such a comfortable thing as a qtcups or xpp dialog to choose the printer where you want to print. I have tested the first of the two possibilities (with the colour PostScript driver) because this works for EVERY printer supported by Mandrake 7.2 with the default setting which you have assigned to your printer. Do the following: Click on the printer symbol or choose "File"/"Print...". Click on "Select..." in the upper right corner of the printing dialog. Click on "Printer Create/Edit..." at the lower right of the "Select Printer" dialog. Click on "Add..." in the upper right corner of the "Printer Create/Edit" dialog. In the "Add printer driver" dialog make sure that the setting "Additional Printer Drivers (*.all)" directly over the driver list area is marked. In the driver list choose the "Tektronix Phaser 140" and click "OK". Confirm the file name. Now you have an entry for the "Tektronix Phaser 140" in the list area of the "Printer Create/Edit" dialog. Mark it and click "Setup". At the bottom of the "Printer Setup" dialog click on the "Destination..." button and choose the name of your printer. Click "OK". Now click "OK" in the "Printer Setup" dialog without changing anything else. Click "OK" in "Printer Create/Edit" and in "Select Printer". In the printing dialog choose "Full Colour" for "Print Colour" in the "Document Settings" section. If you have already a document to print, click "OK" in the printing dialog, otherwise "Cancel". The printer information is now saved and available for your printouts. For me this works, try it, it worked on both a local Epson Stylus 440 and a remote HP DeskJet 840C for me. Till William Bouterse wrote: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format... > > ------------=_975303090-23665-1 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > On Fri, 24 Nov 2000 15:33:23 Till Kamppeter wrote: > > > > > First, start the CUPS-LPD mini daemon, so that CUPS emulates an LPD > > daemon on the same machine with the same LPD queue names as there CUPS > > queues are named. See on > > > > http://www.mandrakeuser.org/hardware/hcups4.html#lpdcl > > > > how to set up the CUPS-LPD mini-daemon. > > > > Second, make sure that WordPerfect outputs PostScript, because CUPS > > translates the PostScript to the printer's native language. Do not use > > the printer-specific drivers of WordPerfect, choose something as > > "Generic PostScript Printer". > > > > Till > > Till, > > I am using WP 8 the boxed set from a year or two ago. It had worked > flawlessly > but even with your very thorough instructions I have yet to get my HP 855c > working properly. The closest to "generic postscript" I could find was > "pass-through postscript printer" That worked for black/white greyscale. > However no color combos with or without postscript seemed to work for me. > I would be glad to burn a copy of this cd to you if it would help > debugging.? > > Any more ideas? > > Thanks :) > > Excuse if another message was sent by mistake. Experimenting with > 'balsa' and the buttons jumped out and wanted to click themselves :) > > BTW : Anyone else getting two, three and four copies of the same > messages posted to this List ? > (If so could that procmail wizard of months ago tell us how to stop it) > > William Bouterse > Talkeetna, Alaska > > ------------=_975303090-23665-1 > Content-Type: text/plain; name="message.footer" > Content-Disposition: inline; filename="message.footer" > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit > > Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: > Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list. > > ------------=_975303090-23665-1--
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