On 11/08/10 20:50, Eric Wood wrote: > On 11/8/2010 5:44 PM, [email protected] wrote: >> I noticed that there is a new listing on the >> "Gnome Panel> Applications> Office" >> called >> "OpenOffice.org 3.2 Printer Administration". >> >> What is it used for? The Help section inside OOo 3.2.1 does not > > I'm just guessing here but it may be a set of printer setups for use > only with Ooo. I'm starting to get into running Ooo headless to that > I can do printing macros from the command line without the gui - known > as headless mode. Since there is a -p and -pt argument to soffice.bin > program, this should be referencing the printer names setup. So you > can have one printer pulling from paper tray 1 and another printer > name (actually same printer) pulling from tray 2 duplex without > complicating your macros with printer options. > > -eric wood
I do the same printer, but different default options, for years with Windows. I have two versions of my Color Laser for Ubuntu at this time. It is a little harder to do that with Linux, for me at this time, but I had one B&W laser printer setup as at least 4 or 5 different printers with options on print quality [draft, normal, high] and manual-paper-feeding-only. I no longer have that printer, so I do not remember. Currently, my Color Laser has both Network Connect and Direct USB Connect version in my printer selection. When printing very large file size pages [heavy graphics, etc.], it takes a very long time for the file to print via the fastest network connection it supports, but less than a tenth of the time via a USB direct connection. I use network connection 99% of the time and a 32 foot long USB cable for the direct connection. I must have a separate name for each since you cannot change the connection type in the menu options. Are you saying that this Printer Admin. option would help with these things? The only thing I see in the Printer Admin. feature seems to be that it shows the fonts that may be built into the hardware. I never use those built in fonts, or not since Windows 95 came out. ------ I wish my printer did have the duplex option, maybe next time. Command line - never did that except once and it did not include any options. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
