Replying to myself, about 5 minutes after posting this, I fixed the problem.
I deleted my printer and then reinstalled it using printerdrake. I then
selected the Foomatic+Gimp-print driver for my Epson Color Stylus 600. Now
all is well and everything prints as it should.
On Monday 19 February 2001 15:48, Praedor Tempus wrote:
> I have found that I cannot print postscript pages with cups. I can print
> the basic testpage but if I try to print ANY *.ps file, it appears in the
> jobs window of kups, sits there for a few seconds, then goes away with
> nothing happening.
>
> If I start kups from a CLI, what I get corresponding to this failure is:
>
> kups: KRecentDocument::add for /usr/share/apps/kups/testprint.ps
> kups: WARNING: KDE detected X Error: BadMatch (invalid parameter
> attributes) 8 Major opcode: 42
> DCOP: unregister 'anonymous-25820'
> DCOP: number of clients is now down to 0
> kio (kioslave): slavewrapper: Communication with app lost. Returning to
> slave pool.
>
> I have tried upgrading cups, restarting cups, upgrading
> ghostscript...nothing works.
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