Re: xprint problems: was Re: cups printing problems: mozilla, gimp

[richard lyons <richard@the-place.net>]

On Wednesday 05 May 2004 20:06, dee wrote:
> I now have one cups-defined printer printing from mozilla. this will do
> for me  :))
>
> I did this by _de-installing_ xprint (which I wasn't aware i had, but I
> did), and then chanding the 'Properties' of the Postscript/default
> printer, to give the comand lp -P <cupsprintername>. (removint the
> $MOZPRINT etc. presto.

Okay, I too now have the Postscript/default only.  This appears to address the 
cups default printer.  And the print to file works in both moz and 
moz-firefox.

I still don't understand why neither offers the other cups printers, but I can 
work around this by switching the default beforehand.

There are other applications that do not see the cups printers.  Is there 
general a way to make applications aware of cups?

And I just tested gimp again - gimp 2.0 printing over the network to an 
epson c62 - it showed the cups printers, but printed postscript as text - had 
to cancel the job, unplug the printer, delete the printer from the host in 
cups, and then reinstall the printer.  No other way to stop the job from 
printing. The only way I can get prints from gimp is to print to file and 
print from gv - which also only works to the default printer.

-- 
richard