Re: KDE printer interface problem
> Is this related to the failure of OpenOffice writer
> to print the document?
I rather doubt it.
> How do I diagnose this problem?
I'd start at CUPS and work back. http://localhost:631/printers
Try printing a test page.
You may need to purge old jobs left over from aborted attempts to get things
going. I'm not sure if that will be necessary in your case or not. I've had
a lot of trouble out of a POS USB winprinter, and when it (the proprietary,
closed source, binaries only POS driver) dies, it will never pick up the old
jobs in the queue after I restart everything, and it just sits there until I
go in and clean up the queue by hand and start over.
After you get a test page and purge the jobs, try lpr again. Make sure you
have cupsys-bsd installed.
If you want better control of printing from OO.o and the like, try configuring
it to use kprinter. (Though actually I haven't bothered with this since the
newest OO.o, which seems to offer pretty much the same level of toner
saving/etc. control via its native interface from File->Print.)
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