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Re: [OT] OpenOffice and printing?



On Tue, Jul 16, 2002 at 12:01:33AM +1000, mdevin wrote:
> Can someone point me in the right direction to get printing working with
> OpenOffice?
> 
> I have a HP LaserJet 1220 and everything worked perfectly with
> StarOffice 5.2.  Now I have just changed to OpenOffice (Debian Woody
> version) and nothing happens when I select print from the menu.  In
> other words, it seems like it is going to print, but then the printer
> does nothing.  I can see my processor doing stuff like it is producing
> postscript output, but then there is none.
> 
> I can however, print to a file and then send this file to the printer
> manually.  I have tried changing things in the file -> printer settings
> menu, but still nothing comes out.
> 
> My printer is setup with CUPS and works fine with other applications
> such as Mozilla, StarOffice, and command line.
[snip]

I had this problem - until I installed the cupsys-bsd package which
allows OpenOffice.org to pipe data to CUPS.

HTH.


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