Re: Installing Printer - CUPS

["Dr.-Ing. C. Hurschler" <hurschler@gmx.de>]

That should help, I also found out from the LinuxPrinting page that my printer 
uses pnm2ppa, not hpijs.  I had read tha hpijs part from some other FAQ.

Thanks,

Chris

Am Donnerstag, 4. Dezember 2003 00:23 schrieb Andrew Schulman:
> > I'm having trouble getting my local printer working (HP Deskjet 710C) .
> > I'm running woody with KDE3.1.4.
> >
> > I've installed: cupsys cupsys-client cupsys-bsd cupsomatic-ppd a2ps mpage
> > enscript cupsys-driver-gimpprint pnm2ppa foomatic-db gsfonts-other hpijs
> >
> > cat /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/autoprobe
> >
> > shows my printer, and I've got the modules parport and parport_pc loaded.
> >
> > I installed the printer using the Control-Center:Peripherals:Printer and
> > tried printing a test page, which shows up as a print job and is
> > "processed" but never reaches the printer.
> >
> > there are no erros in the cups log files.
> >
> > Does anyone have a tip for what I can try next?
>
> In /etc/cups/cupsd.conf, crank LogLevel up to "debug".  Restart cupsd,
> print another job, and look in the log files again.  Chances are excellent
> that you'll see the problem (too-restrictive directory permissions in /var
> spool/cups?).
>
> Good luck,
> Andrew.

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