Printer problem

2013-12-14 Thread Gábor Hársfalvi
Hi, We have got a HP Inkjet f2180 printer and we need use pure black ink instead of composite black every time. How to do this?

Re: Printer problem

2013-12-14 Thread Brian
On Sat 14 Dec 2013 at 11:22:08 +0100, Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: We have got a HP Inkjet f2180 printer and we need use pure black ink instead of composite black every time. How to do this? What driver package and PPD are you using? -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to

Re: Printer problem

2013-12-14 Thread Siard
Gábor Hársfalvi wrote: We have got a HP Inkjet f2180 printer and we need use pure black ink instead of composite black every time. How to do this? The document to be printed should contain pure black, that is, CMYK values C=0% M=0% Y=0% K=100%. Printing offices also require this if you have

Re: Printer problem

2013-12-14 Thread Siard
Gábor Hársfalvi wrote off-list: Thanks. So we could tell the driver to use only the black ink for black texts/images? No. A document containing composite black text is simply not suitable for printing. You should try to get a better document. Of course, you can tell the driver to print

Re: Printer problem

2013-12-14 Thread Brian
On Sat 14 Dec 2013 at 20:37:09 +0100, Siard wrote: Gábor Hársfalvi wrote off-list: If his reply to my post was off-list it will never be seen by me (I only receive and respond to on-list mail) or (obviously) anyone else. If Gábor is looking for a response he should check whether any mail was

Re: Suggestion for buying/repairing print (was: Chicken-egg printer problem)

2010-10-31 Thread Lisi
On Wednesday 20 October 2010 12:13:15 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: However, I have now another problem: after cleaning the heads, the print quality remains bad. They told me it may depend on the heads dried or maybe broken. In any case, they told

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-20 Thread Jörg-Volker Peetz
Since you are about to scrap the printer, you could try some harder methods. Searching for epson print head cleaning you can find advices, how to try to clean a dried print head without disassembling the printer, e.g., http://www.2manuals.com/head_clean.php Instead of a syringe I used a Q-tip

Re: Suggestion for buying/repairing print (was: Chicken-egg printer problem)

2010-10-20 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: However, I have now another problem: after cleaning the heads, the print quality remains bad. They told me it may depend on the heads dried or maybe broken. In any case, they told that the printer needs being taken to an assistence centre.

Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: I'm facing the following odd problem: when I do: `escputil -c' to clean the printer's heads, the output looks good: $ escputil -c -r /dev/usb/lp0 Escputil version 5.0.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO

Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 11:23:24 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (...) Then try with these steps: http://support.epson-europe.com/onlineguides/en/sc20/ref_g/ink_1.htm Those steps require the cartridges to be completely empty, otherwise the heads won't reach the replacement position:

[solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Camaleón noela...@gmail.com writes: So, in brief: 1/ There is still a small quantity of ink in cartridges 2/ But the printer does not print because its cleaning heads are obturated or dirty. 3/ You cannot perform a maintenance task because there is not enough ink 4/ The printer does not

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: However, I have now another problem: after cleaning the heads, the print quality remains bad. They told me it may depend on the heads dried or maybe broken. In any case, they told that the printer needs being taken to an assistence centre.

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Paul Cartwright
On Tue October 19 2010, Rodolfo Medina wrote: It seems that I need a new printer: where can I find a list of all the printers that are known to be compatible with Debian Lenny? http://www.linuxprinting.org/ -- Paul Cartwright Registered Linux user # 367800 Registered Ubuntu User #12459 --

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/19/2010 07:59 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medinarodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: However, I have now another problem: after cleaning the heads, the print quality remains bad. They told me it may depend on the heads dried or maybe broken. In any case, they told that the printer

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Camaleón
On Tue, 19 Oct 2010 13:59:36 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: However, I have now another problem: after cleaning the heads, the print quality remains bad. They told me it may depend on the heads dried or maybe broken. In any case, they told that the printer needs

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Klistvud
Dne, 19. 10. 2010 15:05:21 je Gilbert Sullivan napisal(a): In addition to considering the compatibility of a printer with your OS you might want to consider its design compatibility with your printing needs. The issue you ran into with your Epson not being able to clear its print heads

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Gilbert Sullivan
On 10/19/2010 11:40 AM, Klistvud wrote: The printer and cartridges business model has been a thorn in the side of conscientious consumers for years. You can say that again! Although I might characterize the position of the pain as being more toward the posterior than the side. ;-) -- To

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 10/19/2010 09:31 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: However, I have now another problem: after cleaning the heads, the print quality remains bad. They told me it may depend on the heads dried or maybe broken. In any case, they told that the printer needs being taken to an assistence centre. Any

Re: [solved] Re: Chicken-egg printer problem

2010-10-19 Thread Doug
On 10/19/2010 07:31 AM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Camaleónnoela...@gmail.com writes: So, in brief: 1/ There is still a small quantity of ink in cartridges 2/ But the printer does not print because its cleaning heads are obturated or dirty. 3/ You cannot perform a maintenance task because

Re: Odd printer problem

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: I'm facing the following odd problem: when I do: `escputil -c' to clean the printer's heads, the output looks good: $ escputil -c -r /dev/usb/lp0 Escputil version 5.0.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO

Re: Odd printer problem

2010-10-18 Thread Lisi
On Monday 18 October 2010 13:39:50 Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: I'm facing the following odd problem: [snip] when I do: `escputil -c' to clean the printer's heads, the output looks good: [snip] , but then nothing happens and the heads are not

Re: Odd printer problem

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: I'm facing the following odd problem: when I do: `escputil -c' to clean the printer's heads, the output looks good: $ escputil -c -r /dev/usb/lp0 Escputil version 5.0.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY

Re: Odd printer problem

2010-10-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 18:36:24 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: What to do in this case? From cups mailing list I got no indications. Camaleón writes: If your ink levels are so low that cleaning is not possible, replace the ink cartridges. I suppose you can force

Re: Odd printer problem

2010-10-18 Thread Rodolfo Medina
Rodolfo Medina rodolfo.med...@gmail.com writes: I'm facing the following odd problem: when I do: `escputil -c' to clean the printer's heads, the output looks good: $ escputil -c -r /dev/usb/lp0 Escputil version 5.0.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY

Re: Odd printer problem

2010-10-18 Thread Eduardo M KALINOWSKI
On 10/18/2010 05:33 PM, Rodolfo Medina wrote: But it's just this the problem: as I said, the paper is left blank because the heads are dirty, both black and coloured print. Maybe the ink has dried, then there's not much you can do. Regardless of the cause, can't you just replace the

Re: Odd printer problem

2010-10-18 Thread Camaleón
On Mon, 18 Oct 2010 21:33:05 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: Rodolfo Medina writes: I don't know how: until the ink is completely finished, the cartridges won't reach the replacement position. :( Camaleón writes: If you have no way to force a replacement, just print 100 copies of a

Odd printer problem

2010-10-17 Thread Rodolfo Medina
I'm facing the following odd problem: when I do: `escputil -c' to clean the printer's heads, the output looks good: $ escputil -c -r /dev/usb/lp0 Escputil version 5.0.2, Copyright (C) 2000-2006 Robert Krawitz Escputil comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type 'escputil -l' This is free

Re: Odd printer problem

2010-10-17 Thread Camaleón
On Sun, 17 Oct 2010 11:34:07 +0200, Rodolfo Medina wrote: (...) , but then nothing happens and the heads are not cleaned. I suspect this happens because the ink is short and the system is waiting for it to finish completely. But then I have the following problem: 1) until the ink is not

panasonic printer problem

2009-07-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
Was there a firmware update released for the KXP-1123 during its history? It could be the ppd file that's available for that printer needs that firmware update installed if such exists. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble?

Re: panasonic printer problem

2009-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-25 01:35, Jude DaShiell wrote: Was there a firmware update released for the KXP-1123 during its history? It could be the ppd file that's available for that printer needs that firmware update installed if such exists. Do those old printers even have the capability to flash their

re: panasonic printer problem

2009-07-25 Thread Jude DaShiell
This is getting interesting now and I have some good news. I hooked the printer up to a real dos box that never had any other operating system on it and used a file manager to print a file. This time, the file came out legible with no garbage. So, I'm thinking printing with this kind of

Re: panasonic printer problem

2009-07-25 Thread Ron Johnson
On 2009-07-25 12:57, Jude DaShiell wrote: This is getting interesting now and I have some good news. I hooked the printer up to a real dos box that never had any other operating system on it and used a file manager to print a file. This time, the file came out legible with no garbage. So,

update: Can't config cups printer, problem gone

2008-10-15 Thread T o n g
On Thu, 16 Oct 2008 04:14:35 +, T o n g wrote: I can't config my cups printer in my newly installed lenny system. Somehow, the command /usr/lib/cups/backend/usb now returns my printer info. I turn off and on the printer before running the command, both when posting the OP, and now.

printer problem (prints postscript source, not document)

2007-12-09 Thread Miles Bader
My work has a combo copy-machine/fax/printer that works great with windows (and seems really fast), but I can't seem to get it working properly with debian/cups. The printer model is: Canon iR C4580F I managed to locate it on the net, and configured it with cups' webpage-configuration stuff,

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Nick Jacobs
upgraded from something that was stable and worked (despite having some theoretical deficiencies) to something that is bug-ridden and unsuitable for general use (despite being theoretically wonderful). -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/usb-cups-printer-problem-after-etch

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:18:10AM -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX node for a new printer. That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, nobody would have had a

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-12 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 08:18:10 -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: Florian Kulzer-3 wrote: As far as I understand udev, it should always use the lowest free lpX node for a new printer. That's just the problem, it doesn't always. If it did that consistently, nobody would have had a problem

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-07 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:34:30 -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: Graham Seaman wrote: After upgrading the server to etch (without any major problems) cups no longer sees the printer. Cups is running ok, and knows about the printer, but the web interface always displays the message:

Re: usb/cups printer problem

2007-05-06 Thread slvr00gt
I have exactly the same problem. I tried your suggestion and changed lp0 to lp2 ( in my case printer is attached to device number 2). It didn't help at all. Same printer not connected message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-05 Thread Nick Jacobs
-printer-problem-after-etch-upgrade-tf3651961.html#a10337018 Sent from the Debian User mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-05 Thread Andrew Sackville-West
On Sat, May 05, 2007 at 07:34:30AM -0700, Nick Jacobs wrote: Graham Seaman wrote: After upgrading the server to etch (without any major problems) cups no longer sees the printer. Cups is running ok, and knows about the printer, but the web interface always displays the message:

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-05-01 Thread graham
Hi Florian, Unfortunately, I ran out of time to work on this. So I have abandoned my print server and temporarily moved to using the printer as a local printer attached to the parallel port on my workstation. When it gets sufficiently annoying not to be able to print from other machines I

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-30 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 00:56:24 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: [...] Compare a directory listing before and after you plug in the printer if necessary. You can use something like find /dev/ | sort before.txt plug in the printer find /dev/ | sort after.txt diff -u

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 23:08:39 +0100, graham wrote: Hi Florian, Thanks for the response! Answers inline below: basically everything seems to be right - but cups still thinks the printer is paused... Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 15:18:52 +0100, graham wrote: Hi, I have

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 23:08:39 +0100, graham wrote: Just to be sure: Run apt-get --purge remove hotplug (Plain remove leaves configuration files on the system; --purge gets rid of them.) OK, done. Following which I power cycled the printer and rebooted the

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 14:31:24 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sat, Apr 28, 2007 at 23:08:39 +0100, graham wrote: Just to be sure: Run apt-get --purge remove hotplug (Plain remove leaves configuration files on the system; --purge gets rid of them.) OK, done. Following

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: find /dev/ -name usblp0 -exec ls -l {} \; ^ I'd still like to see the output of the above command just to be sure. Oops, sorry thought I'd checked this but I hadn't. /dev/usblp0 does not exist. There is a /dev/usb/lp0,

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 20:32:59 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: find /dev/ -name usblp0 -exec ls -l {} \; ^ I'd still like to see the output of the above command just to be sure. Oops, sorry thought I'd checked this but I hadn't.

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-29 Thread graham
Florian Kulzer wrote: On Sun, Apr 29, 2007 at 20:32:59 +0100, graham wrote: Florian Kulzer wrote: find /dev/ -name usblp0 -exec ls -l {} \; ^ I'd still like to see the output of the above command just to be sure. Oops, sorry thought I'd checked

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-28 Thread Florian Kulzer
On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 15:18:52 +0100, graham wrote: Hi, I have a server running cups, with a wireless usb connector connected to a remote Brother 5040 laser printer. It's always worked fine, modulo a little crackle on the television when printing ;-) After upgrading the server to etch

Re: usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-28 Thread graham
Hi Florian, Thanks for the response! Answers inline below: basically everything seems to be right - but cups still thinks the printer is paused... Florian Kulzer wrote: On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 15:18:52 +0100, graham wrote: Hi, I have a server running cups, with a wireless usb connector

usb/cups printer problem after etch upgrade

2007-04-26 Thread graham
Hi, I have a server running cups, with a wireless usb connector connected to a remote Brother 5040 laser printer. It's always worked fine, modulo a little crackle on the television when printing ;-) After upgrading the server to etch (without any major problems) cups no longer sees the

Strange Printer Problem

2006-01-15 Thread Leonid Grinberg
Hello, This happened two weeks ago, and I ccan't seem to figure out why: I was trying to print a document from my printer, and it printed fine. Everything worked perfectly, and the paper came out great. Next, I opened another document that needed printing, but this time it wouldn't print! When I

Re: Strange Printer Problem

2006-01-15 Thread CoolFox
Leonid Grinberg a magnifiquement tapoté sur son clavier avec ses gros doigts boudinés: Hello, This happened two weeks ago, and I ccan't seem to figure out why: I was trying to print a document from my printer, and it printed fine. Everything worked perfectly, and the paper came out great.

Re: HP Deskjet 6840 Printer Problem

2005-11-25 Thread Stephen Allen
Michael Kerwin wrote: I am trying to get an HP Deskjet 6840 inkjet Printer to work with my Debian 3.1 Sarge stable system. I am trying to get it to work with lpr Use CUPS instead, and check out this article; http://os.newsforge.com/os/05/07/25/2030235.shtml?tid=2tid=9 It supposedly works

HP Deskjet 6840 Printer Problem

2005-11-23 Thread Michael Kerwin
I am trying to get an HP Deskjet 6840 inkjet Printer to work with my Debian 3.1 Sarge stable system. I am trying to get it to work with lpr The name of the printer I am calling is the same name as its host name which is hp7efdfb, its local address is 200.0.0.117 I have it using port 9100

Re: Diagnosing a printer problem

2005-05-31 Thread Kevin Mark
On Mon, May 30, 2005 at 12:06:58PM -0700, David E. Fox wrote: I'm on a modified Mepis system, and my apt.preferences are sitting now at experimental, probably a bad idea, but I did that so I could get kde 3.4 installed. I just didn't set it back, and the other day I ran an apt-get update

Diagnosing a printer problem

2005-05-30 Thread David E. Fox
I'm on a modified Mepis system, and my apt.preferences are sitting now at experimental, probably a bad idea, but I did that so I could get kde 3.4 installed. I just didn't set it back, and the other day I ran an apt-get update apt-get upgrade, and it upgraded a couple hundred packages in the

CUPS usb printer problem

2004-12-07 Thread Tom Allison
I run into this maybe once a month. (installation details are at the bottom) my kyocera laser printer (usb) cuts out and won't respond. Restarting cups takes a very long time and the CUPS web pages don't show any problems with the cups system. The only messages in my syslog are: Dec 7 05:19:55

Re: parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

2004-11-30 Thread Promocao NetBotanic
Try to load the modules: ppdev and lp, my lsmod is following: Module Size Used byppdev 8544 0lp 11852 0parport_pc 38880 1parport 41672 3 ppdev,lp,parport_pcautofs4 16320 0e100 31744 0mii 5120 1 e100microcode 7392 0 Pedro Alves Moebius Tecnologia em Informatica Ltda

Re: Openoffice printer problem - A Bug?

2004-11-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 10:43:45PM -0500, Adam Aube wrote: Thomas H. George wrote: Since the local printer is installed and is working correctly I hesitate to delete and reinstall it. It would seem best to remove the printer from Openoffice and reinstall it there but I don't see how to

Openoffice printer problem

2004-11-23 Thread Thomas H. George
Until the most recent dist-upgrade Openoffice had no trouble printing with the local printer, an HP 940C installed with Cups. The printer installation is correct. Lynx localhost:631 shows in as the default printer, available and accepting jobs. The test page prints perfectly and a simple

Re: Openoffice printer problem

2004-11-23 Thread Adam Aube
Thomas H. George wrote: Since the local printer is installed and is working correctly I hesitate to delete and reinstall it. It would seem best to remove the printer from Openoffice and reinstall it there but I don't see how to do this. Have you looked under OpenOffice.org Printer

USB printer problem

2004-09-16 Thread David Hugh-Jones
Hi I have a problem using my printer. It's a canon S100. I am using CUPS and Debian Sarge (same problem with kernels 2.6.7, 2.6.8 and 2.4.27). When I try and print a test page (from the admin interface at localhost:631) I get either the message Printer fault or the message USB port busy; will

parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

2004-07-30 Thread Hendrik Fuß
Hi, are there known problems with parport on asus mainboards or is it just my fault? /dev/lp0 behaves like /dev/null, everything I print just disappears, no error or log messages. Even echo hello world /dev/lp0 doesn't do anything. Under 2.4 kernels everything works as expected. mainboard:

Re: parport printer problem under kernel 2.6 with asus mainboard

2004-07-30 Thread Christian Riedel
Hi Hendrik, On 30.07.2004 15:04, Hendrik Fuß wrote: are there known problems with parport on asus mainboards or is it just my fault? /dev/lp0 behaves like /dev/null, everything I print just disappears, no error or log messages. Even echo hello world /dev/lp0 doesn't do anything. Under 2.4 kernels

Re: New Cups printer problem

2003-03-01 Thread Donald Spoon
Thomas H. George,,, wrote: Printer is an HP DeckJet 940C Driver is Foomatic-hpijs downloaded from www.linuxprinting.org A print test from localhost:631 or from kde prints nothing. cat printtest.txt /dev/lp0 prints the simple text file though it must be manually ejected. less

Re: New Cups printer problem

2003-03-01 Thread Thomas H. George
On Sat, Mar 01, 2003 at 03:15:55PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: Thomas H. George,,, wrote: Printer is an HP DeckJet 940C Driver is Foomatic-hpijs downloaded from www.linuxprinting.org A print test from localhost:631 or from kde prints nothing. cat printtest.txt /dev/lp0 prints the simple

Printer Problem - An Insane Solution

2003-02-10 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
Problem: Epson Stylus Color 860 on usb to work with kde using cupsys and kdelibs3-cups and also to work from a terminal. If web intstallation is used (localhost:631) and the recommended driver from linuxprinting (Stylus_Color_860-gimp-print-cups.ppd) the printer works beautifully from kde BUT

Re: Printer Problem - An Insane Solution

2003-02-10 Thread Glenn English
On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:03, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: PS. I was going to call this a cock-a-manie (sp?) solution but I can't find the word in any of our dictionaries. Anyone know a correct spelling and dictionary entry? Not at all sure, but I think it's cockamamie - it's a term my

Re: Printer Problem - An Insane Solution

2003-02-10 Thread Gary Turner
Glenn English wrote: On Mon, 2003-02-10 at 10:03, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: PS. I was going to call this a cock-a-manie (sp?) solution but I can't find the word in any of our dictionaries. Anyone know a correct spelling and dictionary entry? Not at all sure, but I think it's cockamamie

USB Printer Problem

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas H. George,,,
I have an Epson Stylus Color 860 attached to a USB port. I am using CUPS and cupsomatic-ppd. localhost:631/printers shows Foomatic + stp-4.0 and usb:/dev/usblp0. When I try Print Test Page nothing is printed and the /var/log/cups/error_log lists GNU Ghostscript 7.05: Unrecoverable

Re: USB Printer Problem

2003-01-24 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Thomas H. George,,, said: I have an Epson Stylus Color 860 attached to a USB port. I am using CUPS and cupsomatic-ppd. localhost:631/printers shows Foomatic + stp-4.0 and usb:/dev/usblp0. When I try Print Test Page nothing is printed and the

Re: USB Printer Problem - Partial Fix

2003-01-24 Thread Thomas H. George
On Fri, Jan 24, 2003 at 10:53:56AM -0500, Stephen Gran wrote: You'll want to use the gimp-print drivers for cups - they work very nicely with Epson printers. Yes and No. Installed gimp and gimpprint-doc. Followed instructions and printer worked perfectly printing a picture. Installed

Printer problem

2001-09-19 Thread root
I can print with pr file |lpr. I have downloaded the browsers, Netscape 6 and Opera 5, as well as Star Office. On none of these can I print using the printer button. It seems unlikely that all are flawed so I must assume that something is wrong with my configuration. If somebody knows how to

Re: printer problem

2001-05-24 Thread Steve Gran
On Wed, 23 May 2001, Wayne Topa wrote: Subject: printer problem Date: Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:23:54PM -0500 In reply to:Thomas H. George Quoting Thomas H. George([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Trying to make printer (brother HL-730 on parallel port) work from debian linux 2.2.19

re: printer problem

2001-05-24 Thread Thomas H. George
I have discovered that apsfilterconfig writes three filters for my Brother HL-730 laser printer (which can simulate an HP LJIIP). In the printcap file it generates I find ascii|jet2p-letter-ascii-mono|jet2p lp|jet2p-letter-auto-mono|jet2p

Re: printer problem

2001-05-23 Thread Wayne Topa
Subject: printer problem Date: Tue, May 22, 2001 at 07:23:54PM -0500 In reply to:Thomas H. George Quoting Thomas H. George([EMAIL PROTECTED]): Trying to make printer (brother HL-730 on parallel port) work from debian linux 2.2.19: lp testtxt and from Abiword in ximian

printer problem

2001-05-22 Thread Thomas H. George
Trying to make printer (brother HL-730 on parallel port) work from debian linux 2.2.19: lp testtxt and from Abiword in ximian gnome desk top. Compiled the kernel with parallel printer support and autoprobe. cat testtxt /dev/lp0 works. On advice from ximian gnome chat group ran apt-get

usb printer problem

2001-05-21 Thread Thomas H. George
I successfully built a 2.2.19 kernel with usb support. cat /proc/bus/usb/drivers shows drivers loaded, cat /proc/bus/usb/devices shows only pci. I have none/proc/bus/usbusbdevfsdefaults00 in fstab. After booting up dmesg reports parport_probe: failed parport0: no

Printer Problem

2001-04-01 Thread Dale Morris
Having just done another debian 2.2 reinstall, I'm having some printer problems. I have installed the apsfilter package and it works fine printing from netscape and printing text files, etc.. The problem is when I try to print from StarOffice. The printer starts but nothing is printed to the

Re: Printer Problem Solved..sorta..

2001-04-01 Thread Dale Morris
Doing some investigation, I find the problem lies more with StarOffice 5.2 than it does with my printer configuration. I changed lpd to lprng and have configured it. ABI word prints fine, I can print from mutt, netscape, lyx, etc.. but nothing happens with StarOffice, the printer just keeps

printer problem, sending problem

2001-03-22 Thread Stephan Kulka
My printer is only printing numbers, always the same. I did a strace lpr file and I don't understand the messages, but I think that there is a problem with printing. My other problem is that I am writing this mail from my computer at the university and I don't manage to transfer the file with the

Re: Printer Problem

2001-03-19 Thread kmself
on Sun, Mar 18, 2001 at 07:59:35PM +0100, Stephan Kulka ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: When I try to print out a file , I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - cannot open connection Connection refused Make sure LPD server is running on the system. I am quite confused, because the

Printer Problem

2001-03-18 Thread Stephan Kulka
When I try to print out a file , I get the following message: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - cannot open connection Connection refused Make sure LPD server is running on the system. I am quite confused, because the lpd daemon is started at startup (I even rebooted to be sure). What is this LPD?? My network

Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626
My printer was working perfectly. I rebuilt the kernel allowing autoprobe. Printer no longer responds even to cat lptest /dev/lp0 where lptest is a small text file and lp lptest responds normally but nothing is printed and nothing is in the print que. cat

Re: Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:01:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626 wrote: My printer was working perfectly. I rebuilt the kernel allowing autoprobe. Printer no longer responds even to cat lptest /dev/lp0 where lptest is a small text file and lp lptest

Re: Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626
Thanks for the suggestion. I had not learned about dmesg. Unfortunately it reported everything in order - i.e. parport0 using 0378 and irq 7. I must look elsewhere for the problem. Tom George ktb wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:01:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626 wrote: My printer

Re: Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626
Thanks for the suggestion; I had not yet learned about dmesg. Unfortunately, dmesg reported all in order with parport - i.e. using 0378 and irq 7. I must look elsewhere for my problem. Tom George ktb wrote: On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 11:01:26AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626 wrote:

Re: Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626
I was surprised! After running dmesg I found my printer working again. I don't understand why this is so but, as I had done nothing else (I send these messages from another computer), dmseg must have corrected the problem. Thanks again for the help. Tom George Thomas H.

Re: Printer Problem

2001-02-02 Thread ktb
On Fri, Feb 02, 2001 at 03:03:31PM -0500, Thomas H. George,,,610-444-2626 wrote: I was surprised! After running dmesg I found my printer working again. I don't understand why this is so but, as I had done nothing else (I send these messages from another computer), dmseg must have corrected

Printer problem

1999-12-09 Thread Micha Feigin
I tried to set up my printer using apsfilter. I have a hp 815 (I think that its a variation on the 810 with extra language support) I tried using the cdjcolor driver (It was the only one apropriate that was found, aps filter tried to add a sufix to hpdj which made it not work, and the driver for

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-04 Thread John Pearson
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:57:59PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:43:00PM +0100, SGaerner wrote: You have to edit your local /etc/printcap. Add a line rm=YOUR_SERVER_IP:\ rp=lp:\ But I think that you only have to uncomment und modify some lines in

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-04 Thread John Pearson
On Wed, Nov 03, 1999 at 12:23:06AM +, Brian Schramm wrote I am sorry. I did not give a good explanation for the problem. I am talking security. I have the printer setup in the printcap file but it is not working because it cannot connect to it. The machine at the other end says it

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-04 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Thu, Nov 04, 1999 at 09:55:30AM +1030, John Pearson wrote: On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 10:57:59PM +, Alisdair McDiarmid wrote i've got a printer set up on skinny, which prints locally fine. the printcap on letdown is: lp|hplj|HP Laserjet 1100:\

Printer problem

1999-11-02 Thread Brian Schramm
I hope this gets to the list. I never saw my question post the last time. I am running Debian slink and I need to share my printers with my networked Debian slink workstations. I know that there is a file I need to modify in order to give permission to each computer to do this. I just

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-02 Thread SGaerner
You have to edit your local /etc/printcap. Add a line rm=YOUR_SERVER_IP:\ rp=lp:\ But I think that you only have to uncomment und modify some lines in your standard Debian /etc/printcap. Brian Schramm wrote: I hope this gets to the list. I never saw my question post the last time.

Re: Printer problem

1999-11-02 Thread Alisdair McDiarmid
On Tue, Nov 02, 1999 at 06:43:00PM +0100, SGaerner wrote: You have to edit your local /etc/printcap. Add a line rm=YOUR_SERVER_IP:\ rp=lp:\ But I think that you only have to uncomment und modify some lines in your standard Debian /etc/printcap. i'm currently having the same

Printer problem

1999-10-21 Thread Christian Dysthe
Hi, I have been trying to install an Epson Stylus Color 740 printer. I have installed the neccesary packages and run magicfilterconfig. I see my printer doing dmesg, it is connected and detected on parport0. When I try to print I get the following message: lpr: connect: Connnection refused,

silly printer problem

1999-06-24 Thread Graham Seaman
Hi, I have a printer problem which must be absolutely simple but have tried everything I can think - this is now desperation! I'm using magicfilter etc. My printer (a laserjet 4) works fine - except that it doesn't flush the last page of a set, so that the next thing I print gets its first page

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