On Thursday 21 April 2005 8:50 am, Ron Hunter-Duvar wrote: > Hi All, > > I've been having a strange printing problem for several weeks (not sure > when it first started). > > I'm on Mdk 10.1 Official Download, kernel 2.6.8.1-24mdk, kde 3.2.3 (kdebase > package version is kdebase-3.2.3-134.8.101mdk). I keep up to date with > updates on a weekly basis. I have a local USB printer (HP Deskjet 990c) on > a local CUPS server (no Samba). > > I first noticed it in Konqueror, but Kmail, Kwrite and KGhostView also do > it. It prints normally down until around the last line of the first page. > Then the printer hangs there for about 10 minutes with the light flashing > (indicating it is receiving data, and not yet ready to print more). Then it > gives up and spits out the page, and that's the end of the print. I can't > get more than the first page. > > But Firefox and acroread can print normally. I normally use Konqueror for > surfing, but I've had to start copying links to Firefox when I want to > print (I print useful tech articles for future reference; yeah, I know, old > fashioned, but if I bookmark it I never get back to it, I can take paper > out into the sun to read so I don't get too much of a "monitor tan", and if > my system's down I just might have what I need to get back up). Acroread is > ugly, but I had to install it to be able to print pdfs properly (even > before this printing problem, KGhostView sometimes mangled the document > fonts). For email, I guess I'll have to save it to a text document and > print that with something other than KWrite.
Typically firefox and Acroread print around Kprinter, accessing the printer through lpr. So your problem is likely in kprinter. Have you inspected your logs for kernel messages, cups messages, and the like? Rob -- Linux User #183693 http://counter.li.org/
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