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Re: Printing from Gimp



On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:30:07PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I have an HP OfficeJet 5500 set up to print through CUPS.  I can get it 
> to print from OpenOffice, from a browser, etc....  My problem is in 
> getting it to print from Gimp. 
> 
> There are no gimpprint drivers available for the OJ 5500, at least I 
> can't find any, and I have the 1.6.2 version of HPIJS installed, so I 
> downloaded the correct .ppd file and set Gimp up to use the printer as a 
> PostScript Level2 printer and browsed to the .ppd file and showed Gimp 
> where it is.   There is an activity bar that runs across the bottom of 
> page showing Gimp getting ready to print, but nothing prints.  The 
> spooler never shows any print jobs and neither does the CUPS printer or 
> print jobs page when connecting to it by browser.  (All jobs except for 
> the Gimp jobs show up here and print successfully)
> 
> I am obviously configuring something wrong in Gimp, or I am missing a 
> software component somewhere, but what? 

What print command is gimp using?

I install cupsys-bsd and tell everything to print using lp (not lpr as
many things default to). Gimp prints fine using this method (never
tried any other method in fact).

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