Greetings;
I need to do 60 copies of a page, presently composed with 3 jpg images
arranged side by side, and which is on-screen right now. Selecting the print
option brings up the usual menu and shows all the choices cups does, and can
access the options just fine. And spadmin can print a test page, but the job
I wanted to print was sent to /dev/null, then I found a print all option, and
it has apparently now crashed the printer as its sitting there for several
minutes with the power/busy led blinking. A power cycle of the printer fixed
that, but no output seems to be forthcoming. I had performed a head clean
ahead of that, which has been known to effect this. One more pass. The
power cycle fixed that printer, but its an ink squirter, and my laser is
hundreds of times faster. So I printed one copy to it, which looked ok, so I
ran the copies up to 60 and sent it off again. 2+ minutes later, no activity
from the printer, no great huge cpu use, nothing. So the next time I used
the print directly button and again set it for 60 copies. That printer is in
the basement, and by the time I had walked back downstairs, the printer was
running, spitting out paper like it was going to use the half a ream in the
tray. It didn't, but did out 120 copies. Apparently it took OO3-draw that
long to process for 60 copies or ????
FEATURE REQUEST:
From this, we really really need some sort of a busy indicator to let us know
the job is still in progress so we don't do it twice. This busy indicator
should allow us to tell the difference between a job in progress, and/or the
job is hung.
And, since the c-82 wasn't crashed when I did a test page from spadmin, which
disclosed that the colors needed a few jets opened up, so I cleaned it. The
cleaning (using mtink) apparently left the printer disabled.
The point being that it should have printed that first page sent, which was
sent to a printer known to have worked when it printed the amanda backup
report a few hours earlier, and which history says was still able to function
without the power cycle for further jobs.
Also, one final comment:
I couldn't find a rotate this image option so I could lay them sideways on a
letter formatted page, so I had to switch OOo to a landscape layout on
screen, and then tell the printer daemon to use landscape. This worked, but
it was non-intuitive. Rotating the image 90 degrees makes more sense.
Comments about the original failure please, and many thanks for a great
program, OOo3 came through again. FWIW, I had just installed it, and this was
the first job I asked it to do.
--
Cheers, Gene
"There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty:
soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order."
-Ed Howdershelt (Author)
The meek shall inherit the earth, but *not* its mineral rights.
-- J.P. Getty
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