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Re: Printing Problems



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On Wednesday 02 April 2003 20:08, Michael Peddemors wrote:
> On Wednesday 02 April 2003 09:49, Fred K Ollinger wrote:
> > > >From Konqueror, some web pages, including ASP and PHP generated pages
> > > > when you
> > >
> > > hit print, brings up the dialog, and correctly shows printing pages to
> > > the CUPS defined printers, but absolutely no output.  Works on static
> > > pages..
> >
> > Let's find out where this problem is, kde or printing drivers themselves.
> >
> > Try saving the page to .ps, then opening up in gs. What do they look
> > like? What happens when you lpr, the generated .ps files?
> >
> > Fred
>
> Thanks Fred for the timely response, and simple diagnostic directions, I
> didn't think of.  Printing to a .ps file results in a printout that is
> viewable in 'gv', but trying an lpr -PHPLaserjet on the file results in
> nothing being sent to the printer.  Looking at the completed jobs listing
> in CUPS shows that the jobs have been aborted..
>
> Using the standard HP LaserJet Series CUPS v1.1 driver, and printer status
> shows 'No Pages Found'
>
> Sending the .ps file to you privately for perusal.

If you experience severere printing problems connected to cups and so forth, 
you may want to use my printing stuff:

deb http://ktown.kde.org/~nolden/debian/printing woody main

have a look for yourself what you can use. We used it on the KDE live CD after 
working with Kurt Pfeifle from linuxprinting.org and it seems to be just 
fine.

Ralf
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