On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 17:23 +0100, Jonathan Kaye wrote: > > En/La G. Roderick Singleton ha escrit, a 05/02/05 17:06: > > > > > > >I saw your earlier message but did not have an answer. I am not certain > >I have one now but there are some questions you have to answer first. > > > > 1. Are you using CUPS? > > 2. Have you set CUPS up to do the postscript conversion for you? > > > >If yes to these, then you should have no problem setting up a postscript > >printer that OOo can use as Generic. > > > > > > > > > Hi G., > First thanks for answering. As to your question, now it gets > complicated. I checked out the Brother website and they have no cups > drivers for HL-1230. Following their instructions I set it up as a lpd > printer selecting "Generic Linux lpd" as the type. This works for all > "native" applications that print. Brother has no CUPS drivers for this > printer. Before going to Brother had installed CUPS, Foomatic, etc. and > found something that claimed to be a HL1230 driver. It never worked. It > set up a dev called something like /dev/unknown-parallel-lp0 (or > something like that). The printer is sitting on /dev/lp0 of course. > Next, I went to the openoffice website and they suggest installing gs. > So I installed gs-esp. But now I can't add another printer. I run > spadmin (as user or as root) and when I click "New Printer" the "add > printer" is greyed out. I can add a scanner, etc. but not a printer. So > I have 2 problems: I can't add a printer even if I could find a driver > for the HL-1230 and I can't find a cups driver that's sensible for that > printer. > So, yes I have cups installed. I'll check the documentation about CUPS > doing the PS conversion (any hints gratefully accepted but I don't want > to abuse your time) but probably I'll have to reinstall openoffice again > which is a pain. I have a slow adsl connection .5Mps. > So thanks again for listening to my sad story. > Regards, > Jonathan
I will assume that this printer is an HL1230 and not the old daisy- wheel. In that case there are linux drivers at http://solutions.brother.com/linux/ Once you convince your printing subsystem that the defined printer is default for OOo e.g. named, say postscript in the printing subsystem you can simply tell OOo to use this as its default and you should be gold. -- Documentation Co-Lead PLEASE - keep list traffic on the list. Email sent directly to me may be ignored utterly. "Dinna meddle wi' things ye ken nuthin' aboot!" J.Herriot --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
