Re: Printing from mozilla with cups

[Kent West <westk@acu.edu>]

Glenn Meehan wrote:

> On Mon, 2004-03-22 at 07:48, Tom Simnett wrote:
>  
>
> > On Sunday 21 March 2004 20:15, Glenn Meehan wrote:
> >    
> >
> > > My printout contains lots of little rectangles where characters should
> > > be.
> > >      
> > >
> > > How can I rectify this problem?
> > >      
> > have a look at this:
> > "http://www.newtolinux.org.uk/wiki/index.php/Using KPrinter in any app"
> >
> > Should help you out.
> >
> > TS
> >    
>
> I tried using kprinter but I still get the same problem.
>
> Is my problem due to my printer not being a postscript printer?
>
> Don't I need to use some kind of filter to convert from postscript?
>
>
>  
Sounds like a driver problem. I've had issues when I've used the 
"correct" driver for my printer that the default cups installation 
offered, only to have the problems go away when I installed a different 
driver provided from a different package (foomatic-gimp?; sorry, don't 
remember).

I've also had some success printing from Mozilla by using qtcups; 
"apt-get install qtcups", and then configure the printer in Moz to print 
to "qtcups" instead of to "lpr - blah blah blah".

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Kent