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. As noted in the original posting, other programs on Box #1 can use the printer with no difficulty. For example, lp /usr/share/cups/data/testprint.ps prints a perfect test page. I hope this information may be of some use. Tom George > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
