Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-20 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:47:56PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: Disregard my last post on this subject--I rebooted my machine and now I can print ps files just fine! :) Michael, thank you again for all your responses, I appreciate it immensely. :) Finally, I can write my English essay

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-20 Thread Stephan Kulka
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps lpr: connect: No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. ^^^ Oddly, according to ps ax | grep lpd I already had lpd running. I

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-20 Thread Vee-Eye
No problem. It isn't for me either ... Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just sitting there ignoring printjobs. ;-) I suppose you are aware of the thread, hence you know what has been tried and I suppose it didn't work for you ;-) If you could describe your problem more

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-20 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 08:19:34AM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: Now if only I can figure out why my printer daemon is just sitting there ignoring printjobs. ;-) I'm no expert (obviously :) ), but to try to get stuff set up as cleanly as possible and eliminate potential sources of trouble,

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: What's the output of lpr -V -V your-file.ps? That gives me no output... are you sure the -V options are correct? I don't see -V listed in lpr's man page. From man lpr (woody): -V Verbose mode. Additional -V flags increase verbosity. Use debug flags for

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 08:13:12AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: Thanks for your continued advice, Michael. From man lpr (woody): -V Verbose mode. Additional -V flags increase verbosity. Use debug flags for extreme verbosity. That's very interesting... I'm using

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Vee-Eye
Hi Tom! So I tried switching to lprng to see if that would fix it, but no: it won't even configure, dpkg tells me: Setting up lprng (3.6.24-2) ... Starting printer spooler: dpkg: error processing lprng (--configure): subprocess post-installation script returned error exit status 1

Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thomas J. Hamman wrote: Okay, I thought I had my printer working just fine (albeit without color); I've printed dvi's fine in xdvi, and I can print text files fine with lpr. But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just does

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps lpr: connect: No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. ^^^ That's the problem there is no daemon so you can't even connect to your

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-19 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Tue, Sep 19, 2000 at 10:23:11PM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~/test$ lpr test.ps lpr: connect: No such file or directory jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. ^^^ That's the problem there is no daemon so you can't even connect to your

Re: Printing--what am I missing? -- solved!

2000-09-19 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Disregard my last post on this subject--I rebooted my machine and now I can print ps files just fine! :) Michael, thank you again for all your responses, I appreciate it immensely. :) Finally, I can write my English essay in peace. -- Tom It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Vee-Eye
Sie schrieben: And, like I said, I can print plain text files fine with lpr... also I noticed that I can print in Abiword (but it's not suitable for me because of the other problems I mentioned). So I don't know what's stopping me from being able to print in gv and kword. You are able to

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Douglas M. Hespe
Hi Tom, I am having a similar problem at the moment. I suspect it may have something to do with upgrading since the new stable came out. As we speak I am dist-upgrading in the hope that this will fix things. During the normal apt-get upgrade there was a segfault message for libpaper and the

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Mon, Sep 18, 2000 at 08:40:26AM +0200, Vee-Eye wrote: You are able to print text files with lpr and you can't print Postscript-files that way? Correct. What's the output of lpr -V -V your-file.ps? That gives me no output... are you sure the -V options are correct? I don't see -V listed

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-18 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Okay, my printing situation is getting weirder. In desparation I tried using printtool, and used it to set up my printer exactly the same way I had set it up under Mandrake before switching to Debian. I was excited when printtool successfully printed when I tried its option for printing a

Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-17 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
Okay, I thought I had my printer working just fine (albeit without color); I've printed dvi's fine in xdvi, and I can print text files fine with lpr. But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just does nothing. So then I printed to a ps file instead of the printer, opened

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-17 Thread Michael P. Soulier
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:09:08PM -0400, Thomas J. Hamman wrote: But now I'm writing an essay in kword and when I try to print, it just does nothing. So then I printed to a ps file instead of the printer, opened it up in ghostview, and tried to print from there, but _that_ also did nothing.

Re: Printing--what am I missing?

2000-09-17 Thread Thomas J. Hamman
On Sun, Sep 17, 2000 at 10:48:21PM -0400, Michael P. Soulier wrote: You shouldn't need to print postscript from ghostview. Does your printer understand postscript? What print filter are you using? I don't know if it understands postscript; I'm using the dj550c filter. Here is what