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Re: Printing from Gimp



On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 09:38:49PM -0700, Freddy Freeloader wrote:
> Pigeon wrote:
> > 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).
>
> I installed the cupsys-bsd package and my results changed a little.  Now 
> the print job shows up in "completed jobs" in the CUPS admin page with a 
> job name of (stdin) but nothing gets printed.  The spooler icon shows up 
> for about 5 seconds and then closes too.
> 
> The printer command in the Gimp interface is "lp -s -dPrinter_Name -oraw". 

Try just plain "lp" - that's all I use. Prints to the default printer.

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