Re: Printing problems w/CUPS, HP 5550, WP8
Cage <cage47@vonl.com> wrote:
For WP8 to use cups printers you will have to make a printcap file in
/etc. What I did was setup the printer in cups and verified it worked.
Then I made a link (in konqueror I just copied the printcap.cups file
back into /etc and made it a link) from printcap.cups and named it
printcap. This is becuase WP was made before cups came out and looks for
the printcap file.
Well, I made a link from /var/run/cups/printcap to /etc/printcap and that got
Opera to print (which I noticed was not printing after my initial post), but
WP8 is still not printing. It still thinks that it should be printing to my
old printer even though that printer is not attatched to the system and is not
in the current printcap file.
I also have questions about Firebird and Thunderbird. Initially, they were
not printing, either. I think that they started to work after I ran kudzu and
let it configure the printer. Firebird now has only one printer option
"PostScript/default" and printing to that works just fine. Thunderbird also
has the same "PostScript/default" and if I print to it everything works. The
problem is that, although it appears that it should be the default, it isn't.
There are several other options, "hpdeskjet5550@:64" (which is what does
come up by default), "xp_ps_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs@:64", and
"xp_pdf_spooldir_tmp_Xprintjobs@:64" are at the top of the printer list. Is
there any way to get those first three not to show up, or, at least to get
"PostScript/default" to actually be the default?
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