On Wed, Jun 25, 2003 at 08:52:24AM +0200, Gaudenz Steinlin wrote: > > so, seemed like we needed foomatic-rip, which wasn't installed... so I > > installed every package with the name "foomatic" in the title, and now > > it's printing! > this file is in foomatic-filters
thanks. > > > Unfortunately, it's NOT printing perfectly. there seems to be some > > kind of package incompatibility in sid, though, so I may try to use > > testing packages for now. > what's going wrong? pages are unpredicatably interrupted. So for instance, when I finally got the printer running there were three test pages in the queue. The first one printed in three sections. First the top third, then about 10 blank pages, then the next third, ten or so more blank pages, then the bottom third. The next page printed in two sections, with the interrupt about two thirds of the way down thepage, and the last one printed with no problems. These problems continue, unpredictably. The quality of the text that does print out is perfect, though. > > ... /usr/sbin/enable isn't installed, and I didn't find it in the > > debian package file search. what does it do? > it's /usr/bin/enable and the argument is not the device as the previos > poster suggested but the printer name > /usr/bin/enable printer_name enables printing on this printer, disabled > printers still accept jobs (see below) > > > > > you can also try > > > /usr/sbin/accept /dev/usb/lp0 > > > > .. this does exist, but returns the following: > > matts-mac:~# /usr/sbin/accept /dev/usb/lp0 > > accept: Operation failed: client-error-not-found > It could not find the printer /dev/usb/lp0, use the printer name not the > device it is attached. > accept and reject set printers to accept/reject new jobs. > > gaudenz > great, that helps! matt
