Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-19 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:05:17PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: I spent more than 12 hours today and yesterday trying to get CUPS working with a Samsung ML-1210 laser printer, and reluctantly concluded it wasn't possible using only stable packages. I got it running using a bunch of unstable

RE: Printing help, please.

2003-08-19 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi all, I received a suggestion to run 'cupstestppd and to check printcap. The result from cupstestppd was a blank line on screen and no activity from the printer. Printcap returned some info about my printer but I have no idea where to add a call to /var/run/cups/printcap, I couldnt find any info

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:20:35 -0600 Dave Thayer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've been using an ML-1210 with CUPS on a system tracking unstable for about a year and a half, so sometime in that period it must have been working with what now is the stable distro... The one thing I had to do that

Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi all, I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. I installed the ppd file for my printer from the Linuxprinting.org site. I rtfm'd several times

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:20:24AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: Hi all, I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. I installed the ppd file

RE: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Thanks, I'll try this tonight and let you know how it goes. mw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:20:24 -0500 Wathen, Metherion [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. I installed

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:12:01AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: works okay when i am root. when i am a user, it prints, bash: /dev/lp0 access denied! do i change permissions on /dev/lp0 or add the user to some group? Which group owns /dev/lp0? robleserver:~$ ls -Ll /dev/lp0 crw-rw

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:25:06PM +, Avtar Marwaha wrote: On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:22, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: foomatic-compiledb -t ppd pnm2ppa did that too what was the output when you ran this command? got it - you have to execute that command sitting in /etc when i say

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all! my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. here is the set-up: computer is running on woody 3.0 hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) i tried

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Avtar Marwaha
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hello all! my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. here is the set-up: computer is running on woody 3.0 hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) i tried

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Rupert
On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: what to do now? try to print something? echo test | lpr does nothing! You may possibly need to send a

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Avtar Marwaha
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:48, Avtar Marwaha wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and all of the necessary dependencies. Sorry, I made some mistakes. There are two ways of doing this. You

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:02:09PM +, Rupert wrote: On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: what to do now? try to print something? echo

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:51:15PM +, Avtar Marwaha wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:48, Avtar Marwaha wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and all of the necessary dependencies. did

repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. here is the set-up: computer is running on woody 3.0 hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) i tried reading linuxprinting.org - could not unsderstand much here is

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) Just a general guess, but: apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe.

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) Just a general guess, but:

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Travis Crump
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hp deskjet 710c printer is

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 01:28, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: try to print something? echo test | lpr does nothing! Ummm... Should Work (TM). failing that did you configure magicfilter? or your printcap file? I used /sbin/magicfilterconfig and my printer worked like magic(oh no a

Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Tom Zych
I just bought a Canon BJ-200 printer and I'm trying to get it working with Debian. There's a tremendous amount of stuff to learn about: CUPS, Foomatic, PPDs, etc etc. It would probably take me days to wade through it all and make sense of it. I don't have days; I have to print some resumes and

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Rupert
On Fri, 01 Nov 2002 07:27:48 -0800 Tom Zych [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a Canon BJ-200 printer and I'm trying to get it working with Debian. snip Can anyone point me toward a step-by-step howto, for Debian, OpenOffice, and GhostScript, that will simply tell me what I need to do?

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Chris Lale
Tom Zych [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I just bought a Canon BJ-200 printer and I'm trying to get it working with Debian. There's a tremendous amount of stuff to learn about: CUPS, Foomatic, PPDs, etc etc. It would probably take me days to wade through it all and make sense of it. I don't have days;

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 10:27, Tom Zych wrote: I just bought a Canon BJ-200 printer and I'm trying to get it working with Debian. There's a tremendous amount of stuff to learn about: CUPS, Foomatic, PPDs, etc etc. It would probably take me days to wade through it all and make sense of it. I

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Hi, please don't sign your mails unless your keys are on the keyservers. Thorsten -- In dem Augenblick, wo wir anfangen unsere Freiheitsrechte einzuschränken, besorgen wir das Geschäft der Terroristen. - Günter Grass -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Tom Zych
Thanks for the help. I installed and configured MagicFilter and OpenOffice works fine now. Cheers, -- Tom Zych This email address will expire at some point to thwart spammers. Permanent address is rot13([EMAIL PROTECTED]). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Colin Watson
On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:07:30PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, please don't sign your mails unless your keys are on the keyservers. $ gpg --recv-keys 99363a40 gpg: requesting key 99363A40 from HKP keyserver the.earth.li gpg: key 99363A40: public key imported gpg: Total number

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Alan Shutko
Thorsten Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please don't sign your mails unless your keys are on the keyservers. Mark's key was, at least on the ones I use. keyserver keyring.debian.org keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net -- Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] - In a variety of flavors! You killed somone

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Thorsten Haude
Moin, * Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-11-01 18:13]: Thorsten Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please don't sign your mails unless your keys are on the keyservers. Mark's key was, at least on the ones I use. keyserver keyring.debian.org keyserver wwwkeys.us.pgp.net So it must be a local

GPG/PGP signing (was Re: Straightforward printing help urgentlyneeded)

2002-11-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 12:17, Colin Watson wrote: On Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 06:07:30PM +0100, Thorsten Haude wrote: Hi, please don't sign your mails unless your keys are on the keyservers. $ gpg --recv-keys 99363a40 gpg: requesting key 99363A40 from HKP keyserver the.earth.li gpg:

Re: Straightforward printing help urgently needed

2002-11-01 Thread Mark L. Kahnt
On Fri, 2002-11-01 at 12:44, Thorsten Haude wrote: Moin, * Alan Shutko [EMAIL PROTECTED] [02-11-01 18:13]: Thorsten Haude [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: please don't sign your mails unless your keys are on the keyservers. Mark's key was, at least on the ones I use. keyserver

printing --help

1998-12-29 Thread Harold G. Stevenson
got an epson stylus color 400, but have not been able to get it to print anything at all yet. if anyone has any ideas on what's going on, i would appreciate some help in fixing this. whatever is sent to the printer makes it to the queue, then the bytes seem to disappear because nothing happens