Re: [Xprint] No printing from ... Pls see ANNOTATIONS to your helpful suggestions & queries

[Godfrey Harrison]

Drew Parsons wrote: On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 19:35 +0800, Godfrey Harrison wrote: What do I need to do to get prints of my e-mails and from printer friendly versions of web-pages &, even, web pages? I am running Mozilla & Thunderbird, under Debian 3.1 Sarge, and can't print anything from them. I can print using Open Office, gedit, and Abiword and Evolution. Mozilla & Thunderbird work fine EXCEPT no printing! I can choose from a list of possible printing possibilities The lp-64 one connects to my Lexmark E210 printer - its comes to life & its green lights blinks a time or two but nothing else happens. Check Xprint is in general working by printing to file (or to pdf).     ^^^ IT PRINTS TO FILE FINE; I CAN OPEN & READ THE .ps              FILES, FOR EXAMPLE USING THE FILE BROWSER BUT CAN'T              AFTER THAT PRINT THEM You could also try printing the file from the command line while you're at it using lpr (can you normally print postscript files from the command line? IT SEEMS NOT! SO NO SURPRISE THE TRIAL THE PREVIOUS SENTENCE SUGGESTS FAILS. ). I gather you tried both the Xprint printers and the default mozilla printers. The Xprint ones have the :64 suffix and the default mozilla ones have the Postscript/ prefix. WHAT THE PREVIOUS SENTENCE SAYS & WHAT I SEE - SAY, WHEN STARTING A PRINT - AGREE You might try updating the PPD file (it goes in /usr/share/cups/model) from the vendor or from www.linuxprinting.org. I'LL TRY THIS. (If you're using LPRng I'M NOT USING LPRng not CUPS then you could see if CUPS works more smoothly instead). Try firefox rather than mozilla (probably won't help though, if thunderbird isn't working either). I MAY TRY FIREFOX (?FLY) There's a slim chance there might be information in /var/log/syslog (or lpr.log), but I expect not. THERE WERE SOME MESSAGES SAYING XPRT (?) SOMETHING LIKE THAT ) MAYBE "XPRT64" ? - WAS CONNECTED OR DISCONNECTED TO LOCAL HOST; NOTHING ELSE I SAW. Hope that might help. I'M LEARNING A BIT BUT NOT PRINTING ANYMORE YET Drew                            THANKS                                             GODFREY

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