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). -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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