Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-26 Thread Jason Rennie
This fixed my problem (fresh install from Beta 4 CD about a week ago). Many thanks Jim! Jason On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 04:32:14PM -0700, Jim McCloskey wrote: > This could be your problem if you're running a quite recent (from > Debian testing) version of Firefox which uses Xprint to do its > print

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-26 Thread Alvin Oga
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> Whatever. I can print now. I just need to figure out why firefox is > >> printing pages such that four can fit on a sheet ... not that I mind > >> so much, but it's curious. A matter for another day, I suppose. > > > > a2ps -2 /etc/printcap

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:40:05PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: mpage? Or enscript? I rather like kde. Somewhere embedded in it is kprinter. I used to be able to hook it into Moz by configuring the commandline print prog, but that option seems to have vanished.

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: I just assumed cupsys was the right thing to install for cups? (Haven't done it, though.) I guess I'm wrong? I have these cups packages installed: ii cupsomatic-ppd 20040506-1 linuxprinting.org printer support - transiti ii cupsys 1.1.20final+cv Common U

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jim McCloskey
"Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: |> > Several others, myself included, have seen this same behavior. Like |> > you, I don't find printing important enough to have followed the |> > revelant threads to a solution, but I'm thinking it may have something |> > to do with the dropping of

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread John L Fjellstad
I was in the same situation up until last year. Couldn't print after installing Debian, and since I didn't need to print anything, I just didn't bother looking into it. Finally had to print something last year, and really didn't look forward to it (remembering of hard it was to set up lpr). Inst

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread J F
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 25 Jul 2004 11:25:45 -0400 Subject: Re: yay! I can print! On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:53:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote:> I concur. I never have had satisfactory print quality on my agin> Lexmark 4039-10R with lpr/lprng with magicfilter/apsfilter. I star

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jul 25 14:12 -0500]: > > Try the upstream Firefox with postscript output? > > Which version are you talking about? www.mozilla.org - Nate >> -- Wireless | Amateur Radio Station N0NB | Successfully Microsoft Amateur radio exams; ham radio; L

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Kent West penned: > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:56:28 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Whatever. I can print now. I just need to figure out why firefox is >> printing pages such that four can fit on a sheet ... not that I mind >> so much, but it's curious.

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:51:02AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I think it depends on whether you are using mozilla.org builds or > Debian packages for Mozilla and/or Firefox. The Debian pakages > currently require Xprint. I am using the mozilla.org builds with no > problems. The default margin

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Alvin Oga penned: > > hi ya monique > > On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > >> installed lpr. That gave me permission errors on a non-existent >> file, namely /var/spool/lpd//.seq , iirc. > > that'd be normal ... one has to create the right permissions on the > /var/spoo

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:38:06AM -0600, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > I just assumed cupsys was the right thing to install for cups? (Haven't > done it, though.) I guess I'm wrong? cupsys: CUPS server cupsys-client: CUPS client programs cupsys-bsd: CUPS BSD-style client programs (e.g

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
On 2004-07-25, Kent West penned: > Jason Rennie wrote: > >>These are the packages I apt-get installed: >> >>cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint xpp cupsomatic-ppd >>foomatic-db-gimp-print >> >> > > I think this may be part of the confusion with setting up printers > using cups on Deb

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Tom Furie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 03:31:19PM -0300, Jeronimo Pellegrini wrote: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:40:05PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > > mpage? > > Or enscript? or a2ps? -- It's raisins that make Post Raisin Bran so raisiny ... -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jeronimo Pellegrini
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 12:40:05PM -0400, Jason Rennie wrote: > mpage? Or enscript? J. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Kent West
Jason Rennie wrote: These are the packages I apt-get installed: cupsys-bsd cupsys-client cupsys-driver-gimpprint xpp cupsomatic-ppd foomatic-db-gimp-print I think this may be part of the confusion with setting up printers using cups on Debian. There is no package named "cups" (tasksel, anyone?)

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* Jason Rennie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jul 25 10:29 -0500]: > On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:53:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > > I concur. I never have had satisfactory print quality on my agin > > Lexmark 4039-10R with lpr/lprng with magicfilter/apsfilter. I started > > playing with CUPS a mon

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 11:25:22PM +0800, Katipo wrote: > There's actually a debian package that features this, i.e., four pages > onto one. > It looks very much as though your printing programme is being routed > through this. > Regretfully, I can't remember the name of the package, but it is in

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Katipo
Kent West wrote: On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:56:28 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Whatever. I can print now. I just need to figure out why firefox is printing pages such that four can fit on a sheet ... not that I mind so much, but it's curious. A matter for another day, I su

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Jason Rennie
On Sun, Jul 25, 2004 at 09:53:13AM -0500, Nate Bargmann wrote: > I concur. I never have had satisfactory print quality on my agin > Lexmark 4039-10R with lpr/lprng with magicfilter/apsfilter. I started > playing with CUPS a month or so back and once I installed libgimpprint > and used their ljet3

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Nate Bargmann
* John Summerfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2004 Jul 25 06:34 -0500]: > I quite like cups. It can automagically find other cups printers. Add a > new printer to "that box over there" and everyone knows about it. Works > with Windows 2k too (but I don't know the details). > > I told a mate about it.

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Kent West
On Sun, 25 Jul 2004 01:56:28 -0600 "Monique Y. Mudama" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Whatever. I can print now. I just need to figure out why firefox is > printing pages such that four can fit on a sheet ... not that I mind so > much, but it's curious. A matter for another day, I suppose. Seve

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread John Summerfield
Monique Y. Mudama wrote: (on sid) Okay, I know this is pathetic, but I haven't had printing set up on my user debian machine in ... well, ever. Or several installs ago, anyway. This particular machine tends to be my guinea pig. And printing always seems so complicated and whatnot ... and I rarely

Re: yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya monique On Sun, 25 Jul 2004, Monique Y. Mudama wrote: > installed lpr. That gave me permission errors on a non-existent file, > namely /var/spool/lpd//.seq , iirc. that'd be normal ... one has to create the right permissions on the /var/spool/lpd/ where corresponds to the name /etc/pri

yay! I can print!

2004-07-25 Thread Monique Y. Mudama
(on sid) Okay, I know this is pathetic, but I haven't had printing set up on my user debian machine in ... well, ever. Or several installs ago, anyway. This particular machine tends to be my guinea pig. And printing always seems so complicated and whatnot ... and I rarely print, anyway ... so I