Re: /etc/printcap with CUPS & Openoffice 1.0
debian-user@aphroland.org (nate) writes:
> hi.
>
> this is getting frustrating. I recently setup CUPS on my desktop
> to spool to a Jetdirect card connected to a HP Laserjet 4000.
>
> I can print fine if i use lpr, or if i use netscape(4.x) which
> calls lpr, or adobe acrobat reader which calls lpr too. everything
> comes out fine. I can print select(!) documents from open/star office.
> specifically i have printed 2 documents, and they seem to print
> reliably, i have printed each several times.
>
> the rest of the documents go into a black hole. cups records
> them being queued and claim they were accepted by the printer,
> but monitoring the 'remote printer panel' from jetdirect admin tool
> shows no data being recieved for most of the jobs(and nothing
> comes out for them).
>
> I have tried various different settings in staroffice 6.0 and
> openoffice 1.0 and staroffice 5.2. I don't know why i can print
> some documents(both are word docs), but not others. specifically
> i mostly use star/open office to make generic address labels(printed
> to normal US Letter paper, not to actual address label sticker things.
> so the documents are not complex, just a few lines of text in a large
> font(for boxes). i tried saving my documents into word format and
> printing and nothing changed.
>
> at the moment i have worked around it by printing to a file and
> using ps2pdf to convert to pdf and printing from adobe acrobat.
>
> I used to be able to print fine from staroffice 5.2, then i installed
> 6.0 and could not print anymore using my existing system, which
> was spool to lpd locally, then spool to remote lpd, and it would
> then spool through a NT server to the printer. thats when i
> switched to cups.
>
> i changed cups' config so it outputs the printcap file to /etc/printcap,
> but that doesn't seem to have helped. the only thing it prints
> out is the name of the printer and a colon. i'm really lost.
I had a similar problem with wordperfect 7. I used "lpr -o raw"
with cups to solve the problem.
Paul
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