[SLUG] Printer problem in Ubuntu

2011-06-15 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi All, I have this printer attached to my computer via USB. Using Ubuntu 10.10 it worked fine. I have now installed 11.04 and the only way I can get it to work is to completely remove it each time I start my PC and reinstall it (including

[SLUG] Printer Suggestion

2010-06-20 Thread elliott-brennan
Hi all, I want to print some DVDs and am thinking of buying a Canon PIXMA iP4700 printer which will print directly to the type of DVDs which have printable labels. The Canon site lists Linux drivers - which is one of the reasons I'm considering this printer :)) However, I've yet to see the

[SLUG] Printer problem ubuntu/kubuntu 9.X and 10.x

2010-05-10 Thread j blrown
I have an old Canon BJ230 ( which takes A3 paper, hence the reason for keeping it) that works fine under Ubuntu/Kubuntu 8.x. It is a parallel Serial port printer that I have connected to my PC by way of a serial-to-usb converter as the PC doesnt have a serial port. No setup problems with

Re: [SLUG] Printer problem

2008-02-21 Thread Glen Turner
On Thu, 2008-02-21 at 14:23 +1100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The printer is a Lexmark c532dn and I'm runninf Gutsy G on a laptop. I'd like to connent it to a network, but the installation programs I've consulted don't mention it. Someone suggested CUPS. Has anyone any experience with

[SLUG] Printer problem

2008-02-20 Thread wbennett
The printer is a Lexmark c532dn and I'm runninf Gutsy G on a laptop. I'd like to connent it to a network, but the installation programs I've consulted don't mention it. Someone suggested CUPS. Has anyone any experience with this model? Regards, Bill Bennett. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-23 Thread Sebastian Spiess
re music player. have a look at http://www.cowonglobal.com/ they have very nice players, most of 'em support ogg and/or flac, no idea about the price. I read good things about some trekstore players but have bad experience with linux support on my trekstore i.Beat joy 2.0. Trekstor Vibez

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-23 Thread Ben
On 9/21/07, gav [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ? I bought a Samsung YP-U2 from JB Hifi. They have them on special at $58 at the moment (at least at the Hornsby store) 1GB. Claims to support OGG,

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-23 Thread Sebastian Spiess
re music player. have a look at http://www.cowonglobal.com/ they have very nice players, most of 'em support ogg and/or flac, no idea about the price. I read good things about some trekstore players but have bad experience with linux support on my trekstore i.Beat joy 2.0. Trekstor Vibez

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-21 Thread Andrew Swinn
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 14:48 +1000, Jeremy Portzer wrote: You know, in the days of parallel printers it always used to seem really silly to me that printers never came with interface cables, and they claimed it was because there were different types of parallel interfaces, even well after

[SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread gav
Hello all, Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts ) to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ? Thanks, Gav -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Dean Hamstead
*pedantic* technically ogg is just an envelope, its vorgis you are after *endpedantic* dont go past lexmarks from aldi, they are laser and way cheap. they work quite well in linux (look for a penguin on the side) i wouldnt (i dont infact) go past ipods for personal audio, however i use the

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Heracles
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Not sure about what you mean by cheap. Small Lasers are quite cheap these days. I have an old Lexmark Optra E312L that works perfectly for me. A quick on the Linux Printing website would be of assistance. Try:

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Rev Simon Rumble
This one time, at band camp, gav wrote: Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts ) to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. You can have a cheap printer or cheap ink, rarely both. I'd go for the cheap ink, expensive printer if I were you! I've had great success buying used

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Glen Turner
On Fri, 2007-09-21 at 10:58 +1000, gav wrote: Hello all, Can anyone recommend a cheap printer ( mainly for b/w page printouts ) to use with Ubuntu Feisty +. There are a lot of personal laser printers out there, the BW models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy. You are looking at

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Rodger Dean
Hi Gav, The brother HL-2040 is quite cheap. Actually cheaper than the consumables. Is great for b/w printing. Is a basic laser printer.Some places are selling it for $99. A new drum costs $129 Drivers available: http://solutions.brother.com/linux/en_us/index.html Regards Rodger gav wrote:

Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Jeremy Portzer
Glen Turner wrote: There are a lot of personal laser printers out there, the BW models of those are cheap to run and cheap to buy. You are looking at about $100 to $200. Toner is about $90 -- I use one a year in a household with three people printing uni and school assignments. Beware that

Ogg Players Re: [SLUG] Printer

2007-09-20 Thread Marghanita da Cruz
gav wrote: snip Also recommendations for a cheapish mp3 player that does ogg ( thinking ogg playback is superior to mp3 ) ? snip There are a few audio formats - I am not an audiophile but, I think there are FLACphiles. More about Ogg http://wiki.xiph.org/Ogg List of Ogg/Vorbis players

[SLUG] Printer problem

2007-07-04 Thread Alan L Tyree
Hi, I accidently (!) removed my working printer from the printer dialog on Debian Etch with Gnome. I'm trying to re-establish it. I'm getting the following messages in syslog: Jul 5 09:35:08 windy python: [4215] error: Unable to set locale. Jul 5 09:35:08 windy kernel: ppdev0: registered

Re: [SLUG] Printer problems

2006-06-13 Thread Richard Neal
I used to have a HP LaserJet 6L. Its works fine with cups accept once it totally failed. When you print the data light would flash on the printer then nothing. The fault in the end was nothing to do with cups it was a corrupted font making Ghostscript choke. Theres a simple method of

[SLUG] Printer problems

2006-06-12 Thread Shelagh Manton
I'm having serious diffculties with my printer, a parallel port LaserJet-6L. I upgrade to Ubuntu Dapper recently and the printer no longer works. The strange thing is that it worked a couple of weeks ago, using the old set up. Then not locally, but through samba, and now not at all, except of

Re: [SLUG] printer drivers

2005-10-30 Thread Richard
I found this thread in a forum http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=threadid=188250 On Sun, 2005-10-30 at 16:36 +1100, Paul Maloney wrote: Hi all, I am trying out Ubuntu for the first time and was wondering if anyone can help me with printer drivers. I am using a Canon

[SLUG] printer drivers

2005-10-29 Thread Paul Maloney
Hi all, I am trying out Ubuntu for the first time and was wondering if anyone can help me with printer drivers. I am using a Canon i560 printer and so far I have been unable to install the correct drivers. Thanking you in advance. Paul -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List -

RE: [SLUG] Printer not detected

2005-09-23 Thread Visser, Martin
2005 7:33 AM To: slug@slug.org.au Subject: [SLUG] Printer not detected 'Morning All, I have just acquired an HP PSC 1610 All-In-One printer and am having trouble establishing communication between the computer and printer. The computer is running Ubuntu Breezy. The packages hplip, hplip-base, hplip

[SLUG] Printer not detected

2005-09-22 Thread Ken Caldwell
'Morning All, I have just acquired an HP PSC 1610 All-In-One printer and am having trouble establishing communication between the computer and printer. The computer is running Ubuntu Breezy. The packages hplip, hplip-base, hplip-data and hplip-ppds are all installed. System Administration

[SLUG] Printer problem

2005-09-22 Thread Leslie Katz
Hello, Ken. Please excuse what may be a very silly question. Have you tried to print anything other than the test page? When I set my printer up, it wouldn't print the test page either, but it happily printed the page with the print test page button on it (and anything else I've asked it to

[SLUG] Printer not recognised

2005-06-28 Thread Leslie Katz
I have a dual boot computer (Fedora Core 3/Windows XP) with a printer attached to my parallel port. It works satisfactorily in Windows. The following is what I believe to be the relevant bit of what dmesg says when I boot up in Fedora (I've added the line numbers): 1. parport: PnPBIOS parport

[SLUG] Printer

2005-04-19 Thread John Gibbons
Try Brother HL1430. Mine works a treat. It is one of the cheapest as well. I've installed several distros for fun and they all recognised it from their own supply of built in drivers. John. Hai I was just wondering if anyone has recently bought a printer to run on Linux. Im after a laser printer

[SLUG] Printer port

2004-03-16 Thread Edwin Humphries
Our RH7.2 server printer port died last night, and we've installed another on a PCI card. However, kudzu don't recognise the new system, and running printconf shows no printer devices. How do I get the system to setup the new printer port as an lp device? Edwin Humphries, Ironstone Technology

Re: [SLUG] Printer port

2004-03-16 Thread kevin . saenz
Did you disable the dead printer port? you may have some an irq conflict Our RH7.2 server printer port died last night, and we've installed another on a PCI card. However, kudzu don't recognise the new system, and running printconf shows no printer devices. How do I get the system to setup

Re: [SLUG] Printer port

2004-03-16 Thread Edwin Humphries
Yes, disabled in BIOS. On 17 Mar 2004 at 13:21, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you disable the dead printer port? you may have some an irq conflict Our RH7.2 server printer port died last night, and we've installed another on a PCI card. However, kudzu don't recognise the new

Re: [SLUG] Printer port

2004-03-16 Thread scott
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 17-03-2004 01:10:38 PM: Our RH7.2 server printer port died last night, and we've installed another on a PCI card. However, kudzu don't recognise the new system, and running printconf shows no printer devices. How do I get the system to setup the new printer

[SLUG] Printer Question Again

2003-11-13 Thread Lyle Chapman
We have a RH9 machine setup with two identical brother printers attached via USB and sharing the queue's across the network, is there an easy way to setup one queue but with two printers and then load share the printers, so if ones obviously busy it will transfer concurrent jobs from the queue

Re: [SLUG] Printer Question Again

2003-11-13 Thread Mark Pearson
Although I have not done this myself, it can be done with Cups. Have a look at http://www.cups.org/sam.html#6_2 Lyle Chapman wrote: We have a RH9 machine setup with two identical brother printers attached via USB and sharing the queue's across the network, is there an easy way to setup one

[SLUG] Printer Rip

2003-11-12 Thread Lyle Chapman
Can anyone help? We have proprietry RIP software for an outdated (and broken printer) and unfortunately the software will not run anything but this printer. We would like to save the expense and look at an open source option but I cannot seem to find any. Does anybody know of RIP software for

Re: [SLUG] Printer Rip

2003-11-12 Thread Terry Collins
Lyle Chapman wrote: Can anyone help? We have proprietry RIP software for an outdated (and broken printer) and unfortunately the software will not run anything but this printer. We would like to save the expense and look at an open source option but I cannot seem to find any. Does anybody

Re: [SLUG] Printer recommendations?

2003-07-01 Thread Malcolm V
On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:52, Terry Collins wrote: snipped I understand Epson sell head cleaning fluid that you run through them for occassions like these. I soaked my (printers) head in warm water for a few minutes and that seemed to do the trick. Cheers, Malcolm V. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux

[SLUG] Printer recommendations?

2003-06-29 Thread Peter Chubb
Hi, Our Epson photo 720 has just died (gunge in the printheads, from what I can tell), and it's cheaper to throw it away than to repair it... So, I'm wondering: Do the current generation of colour laser printers do a good job when attached to Gimp of rendering photo-quality

Re: [SLUG] Printer recommendations?

2003-06-29 Thread Terry Collins
Peter Chubb wrote: Hi, Our Epson photo 720 has just died (gunge in the printheads, from what I can tell), and it's cheaper to throw it away than to repair it... I understand Epson sell head cleaning fluid that you run through them for occassions like these. ..snip... --

[SLUG] Printer setup

2001-06-04 Thread Robert Martinovic
Hey, I am trying to setup a postscript laser and am not getting very far. I have tried to setup /etc/printcap using both magicfilter and apsfilter, and when I send a job, nothing happens. This is on a home lan, using debian. One thing I have noticed: I tried using a program called webmin,

Re: [SLUG] Printer problem

2001-04-23 Thread Heracles
Alister Waller wrote: Hi, Redhat 6.2 I am using LPR to print. If I send a print job to remote printer on a PC running a LP daemon the print job goes through fine. If I try and print to the local printer attached to the server by a parallel cable 9 times out of 10 the job seems to

[SLUG] Printer problem

2001-04-22 Thread Alister Waller
Hi, Redhat 6.2 I am using LPR to print. If I send a print job to remote printer on a PC running a LP daemon the print job goes through fine. If I try and print to the local printer attached to the server by a parallel cable 9 times out of 10 the job seems to sit in the queue until I turn the

Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

2001-01-07 Thread Michael Lake
Hi Guys, OK got the printer working. The problem IS, AFAICT, the driver. At work the HP 1100 I have setup fine but that was 2 years ago. This 1100 is a new which I have borrowed and is pretty much the same externally. Remember I mentioned that all the blank lines of my letter in the Postscript

[SLUG] printer help

2001-01-07 Thread Michael
What documents do people recommend I read in an attempt to setup a HP LaserJet 6L laser printer on my linux machine and have it shared out to my internal network via samba. Thanks Michael Fox -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info:

Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

2001-01-06 Thread Michael Lake
Dave Kempe wrote: for most printing problems I'm suggesting CUPS. Works nicely with these printers. Im downloading CUPS now to have a look at it but I should solve the problem too :-) Also CUPS has its own modified version of gs5.5 and im loath to do much upgrading when I have 75 page Journal

Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

2001-01-06 Thread Michael Lake
Hi All, Well CUPS is downloaded and compiled fine. Haven't installed it yet and I'll wait till all other leads are exhausted. Also downloaded latest ghostscript. Still buggered as to why the output has removed all the blank lines from the postscript. I notice that the CUPS site says that its

[SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

2001-01-05 Thread Michael Lake
Hi All, I have a HP laerjet 1100 for the w/end to do some urgent printing on and can't get it working. At work I got one working fine by using RedHat's printtool. Here I have not had any luck with Debian on the Alpha or SUSE on Intel. OK. On Debian I used apsfilterconfig and it went fine.

Re: [SLUG] Printer setup of HP laserJet 1100

2001-01-05 Thread Dave Kempe
Mike, for most printing problems I'm suggesting CUPS. Works nicely with these printers. On debian, apt-cache seach cups. Its HP laserjet driver that comes with it works great for 1100s from what ive seen. Hope that helps :) dave -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List -

[SLUG] Printer problems

2000-10-28 Thread Adrian
I have a two problem. 1/ I don't know much about redhat or Linux. 2/ Until recently, I was running samba with one parallel printer port with a Lexmark Optra E+ on it. It has been working very well. No complaints. I have installed a second parallel printer port card and have

Re: [SLUG] Printer problems

2000-10-28 Thread Terry Collins
Adrian wrote: Could somebody (with a lot of patient) help me sort thought this so I can print to two different printers via their respective parallel printer ports. That describes the list. Post the error messages, your setup, the actual problems, etc to the list. -- Terry Collins

Re: [SLUG] Printer problems

2000-10-28 Thread Howard Lowndes
Have you use the Linux printtool to set up the printers? Could you post your /etc/printcap file? -- Howard. __ LANNet Computing Associates http://www.lannet.com.au On Sun, 29 Oct 2000, Adrian wrote: I have a two problem. 1/I don't