Re: OOo Printer Setup Frustration - Elaboration
On Thu, 2004-12-02 at 13:45 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> On Thu, Dec 02, 2004 at 11:17:58AM +0000, Chris Halls wrote:
> > On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 18:59 -0500, Thomas H. George wrote:
> > > The other box does not find its attached printer and insists on using a
> > > generic printer which only spits out dozens of blank pages. If,
> > > instead, I comment out export SAL_DISABLE_CUPS=1 openoffice finds the
> > > attached printer but it is not possible to set the paper size and
> > > nothing prints.
> >
> > I'm afraid the version in testing still has several problems. If you
> > can manage it, try upgrading to the version I just uploaded to unstable,
> > which fixes many printing bugs. It'll be a while until this gets into
> > testing since we have to wait for dependencies with the KDE integration.
> >
> > Chris
> >
> Thanks Chris, I'll try to get the unstable version. In the meantime I have
> researched the problem a little more. The printer in question is an HP
> 940C attached to Box #1. Printing from OpenOffice works on Box #2 and
> the driver CUPS is using is HP-DeskJet_930C Foomatic/hpijs. Using locate
> the file HP-DeskJet_940C-hpijs.ppd.gz is found on both boxes in
> /usr/share/ppd/HP.
>
> If oopadmin is started on Box #1 the add printer option apparently looks
> in the /usr/share/foomatic/db/source/printer directory - at least the
> only choices it offers are found in that directory and DeskJet drivers
> are not among these choices.
>
> oopadmin add printer has a browse option which can be used to switch to
> the /usr/share/ppd/HP directory where HP-DeskJet_940C-hpijs.ppd.gz is
> located. oopadmin believes that directory is empty.
>
It's been a while since I used oopadmin (to add a 940C, as an aside) but
if my memory serves me correctly oopadmin will not show any files in the
directory you browsed to. Hit OK (or the equivalent) anyway, restart
oopadmin, and the HP940C should be in the list of printers you can
select from, along with all the others in that directory. Again, at
least that's the way I remember it.
Reply to: