Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Thu, 09 Aug 2012 16:57:48 -0300, David Roguin wrote: I have a debian server which have an epson printer installed to it. The printer works fine with windows and linux clients but when I try to print with a mac it asks for a password and then the printer stops with the error

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Guy Gold
On Fri,Aug 10 02:35:PM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, being a MacOS client, you should be able to use IPP and thus avoiding messing up with another client/server protocols that may require setting up the correct credentials for accessing the printing resources (e.g., samba). It is a good

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-10 Thread Camaleón
On Fri, 10 Aug 2012 10:42:20 -0400, Guy Gold wrote: On Fri,Aug 10 02:35:PM, Camaleón wrote: Anyway, being a MacOS client, you should be able to use IPP and thus avoiding messing up with another client/server protocols that may require setting up the correct credentials for accessing the

cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-09 Thread David Roguin
Hello, I have a debian server which have an epson printer installed to it. The printer works fine with windows and linux clients but when I try to print with a mac it asks for a password and then the printer stops with the error

Re: cups printer problems with osx clients

2012-08-09 Thread Gary Dale
On 09/08/12 03:57 PM, David Roguin wrote: Hello, I have a debian server which have an epson printer installed to it. The printer works fine with windows and linux clients but when I try to print with a mac it asks for a password and then the printer stops with the error

Re: Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-27 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks. That was a great lead!

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Clyde Wilson wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work. My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print something it just disappears. It

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:57:47PM -0800, Clyde Wilson had the following words of wisdom... I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
I used printconf and it got me going...thanks for your help! --- Grant Thomas [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What type of driver are you using for the printer? Usually I am able to get generic printing functionality fro CUPS by choosing the Raw printer option. It should be the one that states no

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Mark, that did the trick. I appreciate it! --- Mark Grieveson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: - On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read

Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Clyde Wilson
I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work. My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print something it just disappears. It prints just fine under

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Grant Thomas
What type of driver are you using for the printer?Usually I am able to get generic printing functionality fro CUPS by choosing the Raw printer option.It should be the one that states no driver is needed.Also, I usually add my user account into the lpadmin group. How are you connecting to your

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Grieveson
On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything.I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work.My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-27 Thread Strake
From: Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED]Date: Jun 27, 2005 6:08 AMSubject: Re: Printer problemsTo: hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED]On 6/26/05, hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/26/05, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:HP PSC 1350 all-in-one. Connected using USB. I tried printing with both lpr and Firefox

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/06/05 06:09), Strake wrote: On 6/26/05, hacker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/26/05, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HP PSC 1350 all-in-one. Connected using USB. I tried printing with both lpr and Firefox (neither works). Are you using cups? Did you install the

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-27 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Strake wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:09:13 -0400 From: Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Printer problems Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:09:19 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org From: Strake

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-27 Thread Strake
On 6/27/05, Ernst-Magne Vindal [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Strake wrote: Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:09:13 -0400 From: Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: debian-user debian-user@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: Printer problems Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:09:19 -0500 (CDT) Resent-From

Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread Strake
I'm running Sarge, and I can't print. My printer's on, and try to print something but nothing happens. It gets stuck as a job on the spool and doesn't print.-- No place like ~/

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread Steve Block
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Strake wrote: I'm running Sarge, and I can't print. My printer's on, and try to print something but nothing happens. It gets stuck as a job on the spool and doesn't print. Well, what kind of printer?, how is it connected?, what printing system are you

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread Strake
On 6/26/05, Steve Block [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Strake wrote:I'm running Sarge, and I can't print. My printer's on, and try to printsomething but nothing happens. It gets stuck as a job on the spool anddoesn't print. Well, what kind of printer?, how is it

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread hacker
On 6/26/05, Strake [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: HP PSC 1350 all-in-one. Connected using USB. I tried printing with both lpr and Firefox (neither works). Are you using cups? Did you install the cupsys-client in addition to the cupsys package? Could be a permission problem with your /dev/usb/lp0

Printer Problems

2004-11-22 Thread Noah Durell
Hello, I seem to be getting this error when I try to add a network printer to my printer list in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request

Printer Problems

2004-11-22 Thread Noah Durell
Hello, I seem to be getting this error when I try to add a network printer to my printer list in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is correctly installed and running. Error: the IPP request

Re: Printer Problems

2004-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/11/04 14:29), Noah Durell wrote: Hello, I seem to be getting this error when I try to add a network printer to my printer list in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is

Re: Printer Problems

2004-11-22 Thread Noah Durell
Clive Menzies wrote: On (19/11/04 14:29), Noah Durell wrote: Hello, I seem to be getting this error when I try to add a network printer to my printer list in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS

HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Curt Howland
Hi, all. Sid, latest 2.6.8-1-686 kernel. I went back through the archives and found where I had asked about getting this printer connected before, and followed those directions, but it's failing right at the outset. The hpoj documentation suggests ensuring that the USB drivers are compiled

Re: HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004, Curt Howland wrote: correct new ports. USB thumb-drives and memory-sticks function. By this I assume that the usb subsystem is working. Probably it is. However, hpoj simply does not detect the printer. Is usblp loading and finding the printer ? It needs to. Is /dev

Re: HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Curt Howland
On Sunday 03 October 2004 14:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh was heard to say: Is usblp loading and finding the printer ? It needs to. usblp is loaded, but this is all I can find: # lsmod usblp 13088 0 How do I access it to see what it sees? There's no man page for it, and

Re: HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
On Sun, 03 Oct 2004, Curt Howland wrote: On Sunday 03 October 2004 14:11, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh was heard to say: Is usblp loading and finding the printer ? It needs to. usblp is loaded, but this is all I can find: See the kernel logs. You need to find something like this: Oct 3

Re: HP 2210 USB printer problems in Sid

2004-10-03 Thread Curt Howland
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh was heard to say: See the kernel logs. You need to find something like this: Oct 3 15:28:52 khazad-dum kernel: printer.c: usblp0: USB Bidirectional printer dev 13 if 0 alt 0 proto 2 vid 0x03F0 pid 0x6004 dmesg did show disconnect and reconnect messages for both

Re: Massive Printer Problems

2004-05-21 Thread Joachim Fahnenmueller
On Wed, May 19, 2004 at 05:19:56PM -0700, Clyde Wilson wrote: I have installed Woody rev 1 and have not been able to setup my Epson C42UX. I've read the Debian reference manual and How-to's until I think I'm going blind. Do you have any suggestions? Find a good collection of printer

Re: Massive Printer Problems

2004-05-20 Thread Katipo
Clyde Wilson wrote: I have installed Woody rev 1 and have not been able to setup my Epson C42UX. I've read the Debian reference manual and How-to's until I think I'm going blind. Do you have any suggestions? Hope this helps:- http://linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi Regards, David. -- To

Massive Printer Problems

2004-05-19 Thread Clyde Wilson
I have installed Woody rev 1 and have not been able to setup my Epson C42UX. I've read the Debian reference manual and How-to's until I think I'm going blind. Do you have any suggestions? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL

Re: Massive Printer Problems

2004-05-19 Thread Kent West
Clyde Wilson wrote: I have installed Woody rev 1 and have not been able to setup my Epson C42UX. I've read the Debian reference manual and How-to's until I think I'm going blind. Do you have any suggestions? This might give you a starting place:

Re: printer problems

2004-04-04 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
Darik Horn escribió: You need to install a print filter, which is much like a print driver under Microsoft Windows. I use ApsFilter with my HP printers. Run this command as the root user to install the package: # apt-get install apsfilter IIRC, the ApsFilter installer will print a colorful

printer problems

2004-03-22 Thread terryfitzgerald
where would i go in google to set my hp deskjet 400 printer so i can print out colored pages? it will not allow me to print,it come's out in all nothing but green green blotches,the picture will not print. my settings are properly set.can you help me? thank-you so much. yours truly

Re: printer problems

2004-03-22 Thread Darik Horn
You need to install a print filter, which is much like a print driver under Microsoft Windows. I use ApsFilter with my HP printers. Run this command as the root user to install the package: # apt-get install apsfilter IIRC, the ApsFilter installer will print a colorful test page. If you

Re: printer problems

2004-03-22 Thread Paul Johnson
terryfitzgerald [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: where would i go in google to set my hp deskjet 400 printer so i can print out colored pages? Probably something like a search for... hp deskjet 400 color howto ...or something like that. it will not allow me to print,it come's out in all nothing but

Re: Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-26 Thread Ross Boylan
On Sun, Aug 24, 2003 at 05:09:06AM -0400, Brad Sawatzky wrote: Hi Tom, Perhaps your Mozilla build requires the Xprint package. Try installing xprt-xprintorg (and its depends) and see if mozilla can print. Additionally, I found I needed cupsys-bsd (mentioned in the xprt-xprintorg notes

Re: Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-25 Thread Mike Mueller
On Sunday 24 August 2003 16:27, Kevin McKinley wrote: On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:58:42 -0400 Mike Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:37, Tom Allison wrote: this is my current printer configuration in Mozilla. lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}

Re: Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-24 Thread Brad Sawatzky
Hi Tom, Perhaps your Mozilla build requires the Xprint package. Try installing xprt-xprintorg (and its depends) and see if mozilla can print. -- Brad On Sat, 23 Aug 2003, Tom Allison wrote: I'm having difficulties getting my cups printer to work with Mozilla. The printer is located on a

Re: Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-24 Thread Mike Mueller
On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:37, Tom Allison wrote: this is my current printer configuration in Mozilla. lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} Firebird would not print for me. I use cups. Changing lpr to lp enabled printing for me. -- Mike Mueller 324881 (08/20/2003) Make

Re: Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-24 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Sun, 24 Aug 2003 13:58:42 -0400 Mike Mueller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Saturday 23 August 2003 09:37, Tom Allison wrote: this is my current printer configuration in Mozilla. lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME} Firebird would not print for me. I use cups. Changing lpr

Mozilla printer problems

2003-08-23 Thread Tom Allison
I'm having difficulties getting my cups printer to work with Mozilla. The printer is located on a different box (server). But for this client, I can successfully print using 'cat foo | lpr' and Open Office documents as well.. But Mozilla tends to hang. There is a lot of traffic to the server

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
Yes. The same error with lpr. On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:23:36PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: This latter is the one I use with my Epson 860 without having errors you report. *PPD-Adobe: 4.3 *%PPD file for

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
A further update. I started double checking everything. I proofread mime.convs and mime.types again, then ran dpkg -l|grep -i cups and started running debsums with the a option which I hadn't used before. debsums -as cupsys debsums: checksum mismatch cupsys file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf debsums

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:23:27PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:38:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: The problem: Printing a simple ASCII file (printtest) from a terminal. The results of lp printtest are as follows: Epson Stylus Color 860:

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: This latter is the one I use with my Epson 860 without having errors you report. *PPD-Adobe: 4.3 *%PPD file for CUPS/GIMP-print. *%Copyright 1993-2001 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. *%This PPD file may be

Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs (my daughter) Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with Brother HL-730, Foomatic+hl7x0

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Donald Spoon
Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs (my daughter) Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:15:21PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: Sounds like you are missing a filter. Here are a couple of suggestions for each situation: 1. Check and make sure you have Ghostscript installed and working. 2. In the KDE Control Center -- System -- Printing Manager --

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:38:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs (my

Printer problems in x

2002-06-19 Thread Rox de Gabba
I just installed cups and have configured my printer through cups web interface. Have a problem configuring the printer in x, so that i could print directly from kmail or openoffice. Here goes the problem... The printer i have added is working, command lpr -P printer name file is working

Parallel port printer problems

2001-11-26 Thread Nathan Weston
I have a parallel port printer that used to work just fine... however, I recently reinstalled after a drive failure, and now it's not working. I have parallel port support in the kernel. At boot-time, I get the messages: parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [PCSPP,TRISTATE] parport0: cpp_daisy:

Re: Parallel port printer problems

2001-11-26 Thread Stephen Gran
Thus spake Nathan Weston: I have a parallel port printer that used to work just fine... however, I recently reinstalled after a drive failure, and now it's not working. I have parallel port support in the kernel. At boot-time, I get the messages: parport0: PC-style at 0x378

USB and Printer problems

2001-07-26 Thread Roland Hinkley
Hi, I have been away from Linux and Debian for a while. I am now running a 'Woody' system. I have an Epson USB printer attached which I would like to use. I have read the documents I can find on USB in general and USB printers in particular. Kernel (2.2.19pre17) is compiled with USB and USB

Re: USB and Printer problems

2001-07-26 Thread Dominique Deleris
Roland Hinkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have an Epson USB printer attached which I would like to use. I have read the documents I can find on USB in general and USB printers in particular. Kernel (2.2.19pre17) is compiled with USB and USB printer support as modules. I have created

Re: USB and Printer problems

2001-07-26 Thread Phillip Deackes
On Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:01:39 +0100 Roland Hinkley [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have been away from Linux and Debian for a while. I am now running a 'Woody' system. I have an Epson USB printer attached which I would like to use. I have read the documents I can find on USB in general

Printer problems

2001-04-01 Thread Stephan Kulka
Hi When I do lpr foo only numbers are printed. I know that the lpd is running and lprng is started at bootup. I use magicfilterconfig and as far as I can see it should be o.k. I did a strace lpr and tried to send it to the list, but it seems not to have arrived. Are there any limitations

COMPAQ IJ600 printer problems

2000-10-18 Thread Falchion DaSword
I can not get this printer to work in linux. Does anyone have any ideas on what to do? paraport and para-printer are on in my kernel. It detects the paralalel port. but, for example, if I do cat file /dev/lp0 I get nothing,. No error messages, but no printout. : Someone said they think the

network printer problems

2000-09-14 Thread Nick Cook
I recently had a sudden ain't going to print problem (although not on a network), and I got around it by dropping into root and going to lpc. Then I issued the abort command, followed by start all. When I exited lpc, everything was back to normal. YMMV, though. I don't know why it happend (and

Re: network printer problems

2000-09-14 Thread Michael Smith
Sometimes, printers give the code that they are off-line (ran out of ink, someone physically took it off line), or the I'm OK and ready to do your bidding, master signal doesn't get recieved, so lpd thinks that the printer isn't working. You should be able to see this with lpc status, and a

Re: network printer problems

2000-09-14 Thread complaw
I tried what you suggested. It seemed to be a step in the right direction. After I issued lpc start all, and then checked lpc status all, I got reasonable results. Moreover, I didn't get the connection refused messages from my print jobs that I had before. However, having said all that,

Re: network printer problems

2000-09-14 Thread complaw
I tried that too. Still no luck. However, here is the lpc status all now... lp35_05: queuing is enabled printing is enabled no entries no daemon present lp35A: queuing is enabled printing is enabled 5 entries in spool area lp35A is

Re: network printer problems

1999-05-04 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: network printer problems Date: Mon, May 03, 1999 at 02:17:41PM -0500 In reply to:Marc Mongeon I am not, by any means a printer guru, but. I installed magicfilter and the printcap I made using it, allows me to do: lpr hellow.ps No sweat, no strain. HTH Quoting Marc

network printer problems

1999-05-03 Thread Marc Mongeon
I am having a heck of a time setting up a virtual postscript printer. I am trying: $ cat hellow.ps | /etc/filter.ps | lpr -Praw where: - Begin hellow.ps - %! /Helvetica findfont 72 scalefont setfont 72 72 moveto (Hello, world!) show showpage - Begin filter.ps - #!/bin/sh

Printer problems (me too)

1999-04-20 Thread Arcady Genkin
Hi guys, Sorry to annoy you with another printer post, but I am having a problem here. HP DeskJet 697C connected on /dev/lp0 with Slink + 2.2.5. I can't even ouput a text file to it. If I do echo blah /dev/lp0 It awakes, loads paper, cleans heads, and stops there. Doesn't even eject the paper

Re: line printer problems / DEC Alpha

1999-04-08 Thread Paul Slootman
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you write: Does the Debian distribution for the DEC Alpha have problems with certain motherboards or other hardware? I am planning to get an alpha system, and I would like to install Debian. The best thing to do is to ask on debian-alpha (I've cc'ed that and put that

Scanner - printer problems.

1999-03-24 Thread Raymond A. Ingles
I've been trying for a while to get my scanner and printer to cooperate and act like a copy machine. I've got a small script that I've hacked in various ways, but no matter what I try, I can't get the scale quite right. I've got a Mustek scanner that I use with SANE (at 300dpi, lineart mode)

Printer problems (Slink, apsfilter, HPDJ 694c)

1999-02-17 Thread steven walsh
I've got Slink and I'm trying to make aps filter and lpr work as a team, but it's giving me some problems (that Slackware didn't give me, oddly enough). I installed apsfilter and lpr from dselect. I read the stuff for apsfilter and found out it didn't have teh djc670 driver i

Wierd Printer Problems

1999-02-03 Thread Paul Nathan Puri
My HP LaserJet 6L prints with very wierd characters. For a brief moment, I could print quite well. Then I recompiled the kernel and now it prints gobblety gook. How should I configure my kernel so that I have all the correct modules? Which modules should be kept as modules, which should be

Re: Wierd Printer Problems

1999-02-03 Thread Chuck Stickelman
Paul Nathan Puri wrote: My HP LaserJet 6L prints with very wierd characters. When you say wierd characters what exactly are you seeing? Does it print anything readable? What kind of a file are you using for your tests? Are you using a filters? I've seen magic filter dork the output when

Re:Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-07 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
Installable modules, eh? A feature I was not aware of. The modules I have installed are 'serial', 'hpfs', and 'vfat'. I know to type 'insmod' to install a module. How do I either install the module to print or uninstall the module supporting the Zip drive so that I can print. I am using

Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-06 Thread mwb
On Wed, 4 Nov 1998, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive. Since my printer

Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-05 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive. Since my printer is connected to the Zip drive I was wondering if

Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-11-05 Thread Mike Schmitz
On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 09:13:29PM -0600, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote: In my attempt to isolate why I can't print I came across a potential problem. When I installed Linux I had a parallel port Zip Drive attached to my printer port. If I type 'mount /dev/sda Zip' I am able to mount the zip drive.

Re: Still having Printer Problems

1998-10-27 Thread Lee Bradshaw
Make a copy of your /etc/printcap and then run magicfilterconfig. I think the if line should be something like :if=/usr/sbin/ljet4l-filter ljet4l-filter is a magicfilter script (it starts with #! /usr/sbin/magicfilter). All lines should end with a \ until the end of the printer description.

RE: Still having Printer Problems

1998-10-26 Thread Lance Hoffmeyer
OK, this is how my printcap looks. I still get the insidious message 'transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed' What could be causing this? OR, what can I change in my printcap that mught get my printer working. It is an HP660C but I would think I could still get garbage out of it by typing 'lp

RE: Still having Printer Problems

1998-10-26 Thread Kent West
At 06:18 AM 10/26/1998 -0600, you wrote: OK, this is how my printcap looks. I still get the insidious message 'transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed' What could be causing this? OR, what can I change in my printcap that mught get my printer working. It is an HP660C but I would think I could still

Printer Problems

1998-10-12 Thread lanceh
I try and print and get an error lp: Driver configured but no interfaces found What does this mean and what do I need to do to print? Thanks Lance

printer problems

1998-07-10 Thread John Kloss
I've been trying off and on for the last three days to get my printer working. I tried magicfilter but that didn't work, output was always screwed up and truncated. So I purged magicfilter and installed apsfilter to see if it was any better and now my printer daemon is refusing all requests.

SOLVED: printer problems

1998-07-10 Thread John Kloss
well, no one responded to this, so I'll just say that I fixed the problem by removing lprng and installing lpr. I read that lprng is supposed to be better but I also read in the bug lists that lprng has a problem with truncating the pipe before the printer has a chance to receive all the data,