On Sunday 27 December 2009 01:56:07 pm Gene Heskett wrote: > On Sunday 27 December 2009, upscope wrote: > >On Sunday 27 December 2009 07:41:29 am Gene Heskett wrote: > >> On Saturday 26 December 2009, Gene Heskett wrote: > >> >Greetings all; > >> > > >> >I have a B&W Brother HL-2140 printer, that I normally use with > >> > a color computer, all setup and working in cups, in addition > >> > to several different profiles for an Epson NX515 combo printer > >> > that I bought to replace my old Epson C82 when the printhead > >> > in it finally expired. > >> > > >> >Everytime I run gimp to print something, I am reminded that its > >> > printer database is totally independent of the cups database. > >> > And for some reason, tossing a gimp loaded .jpg at the NX515 > >> > only gets me about 80 pages of blank paper. Or a printer jam, > >> > this NX515 is a POS compared to the old C82. > >> > > >> >So my question is: Where do I put the BR2140.ppd that cups uses > >> > so that the gutenprint plug-in can also find it? The regular > >> > print dialog has no knowledge of this printer, and nowhere > >> > near enough controls to be usable. > >> > > >> >My wife, who needs about 8 pages of a Contata Finale piece > >> > printed on regular paper so they'll lay flat on the piano > >> > while she plays them, is checking to see if I've got this done > >> > yet about every station break on the tv. And my sanity, if I > >> > ever had any, is receding. Help! > >> > > >> >Thanks. > >> > >> PS, & since no one has touched this one with a single character > >> of reply, I found a workaround. goto print, select the Brother > >> from the printer listing (after its setup with the new menu > >> that's in there someplace), then do a print preview which does > >> display it in portrait, click on the full width button on the > >> menubar, then click on the print button on the preview screen. > >> It is then printed portrait, full sized. Any other method > >> prints it landscape, slightly smaller in scale and still with > >> some of the bottom clipped off. > >> > >> I feel like I'm playing connect the dots here folks. The > >> excedrin headache number is approaching overflow status... > > > >If your running openSUSE Linux you can put the ppd into > > /etc/cups/ppd/ . I assume other distros also put it there. Also > > you can up the cups web interface to set up the printer. The PPD > > will still wind up in /etc/cups/ppd. make sure its the right ppd > > for your printer. > > Yes, I see the right one I copied in there yesterday, along with > about every case variation of cups-pdf.ppd and a bunch of > ppd.bak's, all gone now. > > I've no idea why I have to jump thgrough so many hoops to get the > correct size & orientation when printing from cups though. > > And it would also be very very nice if gimp used the same drivers, > sadly, no. > > Thank you very much. > What version of GIMP do you have? I just went into mine and called up a .jpg, changed its size selected print and my printer (Xerox Color Phaser 6120) and it printed no set issue.
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