Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-06 Thread Anthony Campbell
On 05 Jul 2011, KS wrote: > On 05/07/11 01:55 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > > Hi! > > Maybe you will give cups a try. > > - Install cups > > - Open a browser and type in http://localhost:631 > > - when the webgui starts, cofigure to your needs. > > > > Good luck! > > > > Hans > > > > > > CUPS i

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread André Berger
* KS (2011-07-05): > On 05/07/11 01:55 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: [...] > CUPS is what I use for my HL-2070N (and temporarily the HL-2070W). For > some drivers which I could choose from, it wouldn't even print. So right > now I'm using: Brother HL-2140 Foomatic/hpijs-pcl5e (recommended) > > Try di

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 20:30 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > Right now I installed ijsgutenprint, since a gutenprint driver is able > to give good printing quality for fonts, but there's no additional new > driver available by system-config-printer. I'm going to install more > gutenprint packages as so

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 20:30:48 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: >> > > using system-config-printer I tried to get a HP DeskJet 600 >> > > working. It's printing in disgusting quality only. Years ago I used >> > > the same printer. The setup was easy to do and the printing quality >> > > was excellent, I c

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread Roger Leigh
On Tue, Jul 05, 2011 at 08:30:48PM +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > I've got hpijs and hplip installed, both drivers are bad :(. > Right now I installed ijsgutenprint, since a gutenprint driver is able > to give good printing quality for fonts, but there's no additional new > driver available by system

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
On Tue, 2011-07-05 at 18:00 +, debian-user-digest-requ...@lists.debian.org wrote: > > Forwarded Message > > From: Camaleón > > Subject: Re: Printer Settings > > Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2011 17:37:29 + (UTC) > > > > On Tue, 05 Jul 201

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread KS
On 05/07/11 01:55 PM, Hans-J. Ullrich wrote: > Hi! > Maybe you will give cups a try. > - Install cups > - Open a browser and type in http://localhost:631 > - when the webgui starts, cofigure to your needs. > > Good luck! > > Hans > > CUPS is what I use for my HL-2070N (and temporarily the HL-2

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread Hans-J. Ullrich
Hi! Maybe you will give cups a try. - Install cups - Open a browser and type in http://localhost:631 - when the webgui starts, cofigure to your needs. Good luck! Hans -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@

Re: Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 05 Jul 2011 14:37:00 +0200, Ralf Mardorf wrote: > using system-config-printer I tried to get a HP DeskJet 600 working. > It's printing in disgusting quality only. Years ago I used the same > printer. The setup was easy to do and the printing quality was > excellent, I can't remember if it

Printer Settings

2011-07-05 Thread Ralf Mardorf
Hi :) using system-config-printer I tried to get a HP DeskJet 600 working. It's printing in disgusting quality only. Years ago I used the same printer. The setup was easy to do and the printing quality was excellent, I can't remember if it was on Debian, but at least it was Linux. If I try to prin

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-12-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
there is just one annoying issue - when printing some postscript files on 4100, it's printed reversed - i.e., white text on black rectangles :( it happens only with some of ps's... this happens whatever driver we use (hplip, hpijs) except for the postscript ppd, but then it's not possible to ch

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-12-06 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi, A bit a shot in the dark, but when I have problems with correct configuration via the web interface, I try to install the printer from the command line like lpadmin -p printer-name -v socket://ipaddress\ -P /atheneraid/tausch/Software/drucker/NRG-DSm415_PXL.ppd replace the last line with

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-12-06 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lubos Vrbka wrote: > >> I guess it's just a problem of configuration and/or ppd-stuff. > it seems so. we installed ppds for HPLJ4100 and HPLJ2300 from > linuxprinting.org (standard postscript, no hplip - we had that up till > now) and the settings can be changed from individual users, i.e., duplex

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-12-04 Thread Lubos Vrbka
I guess it's just a problem of configuration and/or ppd-stuff. it seems so. we installed ppds for HPLJ4100 and HPLJ2300 from linuxprinting.org (standard postscript, no hplip - we had that up till now) and the settings can be changed from individual users, i.e., duplex can be turned off or cha

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-29 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lubos Vrbka wrote: > thanks for a hint. however, we have 3 printers where this would have to > be applied + additional one. then, i would have to have > - single sided > - double sided short edge > - double sided long edge > for all three... it means 10 different printers... and with st

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Why don't you just create multiple printers in CUPs using the same PPD as a starting point? That's what I did. That way your users only have to select the aptly named printer they wish to use in the dialog, without having to know all the intricasies of which side to tumble and things like that. th

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread J.A. de Vries
On 2006-11-28 @ 18:08:42 (week 48) Lubos Vrbka wrote: > > >we tested this. whatever we choose, printer still prints duplex, > >long-edge flip. as a default, this is fine, but when you need something > >special (like short edge, 2 pages per paper), it is not possible. > > > >it seems that the se

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
we tested this. whatever we choose, printer still prints duplex, long-edge flip. as a default, this is fine, but when you need something special (like short edge, 2 pages per paper), it is not possible. it seems that the settings on the printer/cups server cannot be changed/overriden by anyo

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
We use kprinter (kde's printer tool) for printing. It's a one stop solution for all applications that support it, ie. selecting 'print', ctrl-p or whatever will open kprinter's dialog, where one can select the printer from those available via cups, all printer options that are supported by cups (l

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-28 Thread Lubos Vrbka
Florian Kulzer napsal(a): "lpoptions" should always work to set options for CUPS printers. You can check with "lpoptions -l" what is known/available. well, in my experience, this works probably fine for local printer, but not for the printer that is connected to some other machine seving as a c

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-27 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
Lubos Vrbka wrote: > is there any way how to override printer settings from xpp, lpr or > another frontend? we are printing through cups server... > > what i want to accomplish? currently, any settings i make in, e.g., xpp > (long/short edge, duplex on/off, number of pages per

Re: how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-27 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 18:05:32 +0100, Lubos Vrbka wrote: > hi guys, > > is there any way how to override printer settings from xpp, lpr or > another frontend? we are printing through cups server... > > what i want to accomplish? currently, any settings i make in, e.g., xpp

how to override printer settings from cups, xpp, ...

2006-11-27 Thread Lubos Vrbka
hi guys, is there any way how to override printer settings from xpp, lpr or another frontend? we are printing through cups server... what i want to accomplish? currently, any settings i make in, e.g., xpp (long/short edge, duplex on/off, number of pages per sheet of paper, ...) are ignored

Problem with Cups/Xsane printer settings

2006-06-25 Thread Thomas H. George
The situation after recent Etch dist-upgrades of Xsane and Cups: The following Cups commands lp -d br printtest.txt and lpr -P br printtest.txt work where br is defined by Cups as a Brothers HL-730 laser printer on the lan attached to a Sarge box. The lp command reports a job number,

Recent package changes break existing printer settings

2002-03-29 Thread Steffen Evers
After doing my weekly package upgrade on woody my printing service stopped working. I have been using a combination of the following packages: lpr, gs, apsfilter After debugging for a while I managed to get my printer working again by reconfiguring apsfilter. I have reinstalled the lpr package as