Peter Arnold wrote: > I've configured two printers using the bundled print management under Solaris > 10 U5 c/w ppd files for ricoh printers. > > bash-3.00$ lpstat -t > scheduler is running > system default printer: R2045-05-RPCS > device for R2045-05-RPCS: /dev/null > device for R7000-04-RPCS: /dev/null > R2045-05-RPCS accepting requests since 22 April 2008 1:35:13 PM > R7000-04-RPCS accepting requests since 22 April 2008 2:59:08 PM > printer R2045-05-RPCS idle. enabled since 22 April 2008 1:35:13 PM. > available. > printer R7000-04-RPCS idle. enabled since 22 April 2008 2:59:08 PM. > available. > bash-3.00$ > > My problem is that many applications under JDS don't list the available > printers. It's usually just "Generic Postscript" (Gnome pdf viewer, > Evolution) or "Postscript/default" (firefox) which then prints to the default > printer. The only exception is staroffice which lists "Generic Printer" and > the installed printers. > Maybe you would like to try SXDE[1] or Indiana[2]. On my SXDE box, GNOME pdf viewer (evince), Evolution and Firefox 3[3] all use the newer gtk print dialog, which lists all the available printers.
> Any fix for this? > > Also what's the print system we can expect in the future? I see mention of > CUPS and Presto printing in the discussion list. > Check out http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/ And here is an UI design doc. http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/presto/Documents/GUI/presto-ux-0.4.pdf Cheers, -Evan [1] http://developers.sun.com/sxde/ [2] http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/indiana/ [3] The bundled Firefox in SXDE and Indiana is still Firefox 2, which used its own print dialog. You can get Firefox 3 beta 5 at http://releases.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/releases/3.0b5/contrib/ > Thanks > Peter Arnold > > > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > printing-discuss mailing list > printing-discuss at opensolaris.org >
