Re: failure to print

[Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it>]

Hi Roger:
Thank you. I removed (synaptic) every package concerning printing, except when 
dependencies discouraged to do so, whereby cupsd.conf disappeared 
from /etc/cups. 

Then I reinstalled (my debian 32 testing/unstable is up-to-date) from apt-get 
or aptitude commands from terminal window:
cupsys cupsys-bsd cupsys-client foomatic-db foomatic-filters-ppds 
foomatic-filters foomatic-db-hpijs.

Then I installed the printer HP_Deskjet_5740 from http://127.0.01:631, which 
went smoothly, test page OK, openoffice and adobe reader print ok everything. 
In contrast KDE still has problems that I was unable to account for: neither 
kwrite not kpdf are able to print: MIME informs unable to convert. I 
understand that a driver to convert Postscript for my printer is not found.

Then I installed gtklp: did not solve. Then I installed hplip: did not solve 
these problems.

I know it is my fault.

I had liked to add the line

kprinter –stdin

but i did not find where.

Should these question better be posed to kde? Ii would like to drop the use of 
adobe reader, which, in my hands does not allow to put graphics on clipboard; 
at any event, printing from  a kde editor may be usef just because i use kde 
(3.5).

Cheers
francesco pietra

On Thursday 04 May 2006 21:30, Roger Leigh wrote:
> Francesco Pietra <frapietra@alice.it> writes:
> > Yes, i was naive enough. Look here:
> >
> > i forgot to add cupsd.conf:
>
> Try altering your cupsd.conf to be a bit simpler.  For the Location
> directives, try:
>
> <Location />
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> </Location>
>
> <Location /jobs>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthClass User
> </Location>
>
> <Location /admin>
> AuthType Basic
> AuthClass System
> Order Deny,Allow
> Deny From All
> Allow From 127.0.0.1
> </Location>
>
>
> If your cupsd.conf is badly written, remove /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and
> reinstall cupsys (apt-get --reinstall cupsys) to replace it.  Your
> config file was written by a graphical CUPS configuration helper; it's
> most likely that this tool was responsible for screwing up the
> configuration.  Editing it with a text editor is far safer...
>
>
> Regards,
> Roger