On Sun, Aug 17, 2003 at 03:24:08PM +0200, Richard Lyons wrote: > I have a Xerox Docuprint 4512 laser printer, which has worked with various > distros of Linux. In some, I have to call it a 4508, as the 4512 driver is > absent, and the 4512N doesn't work. It is not a PS printer. > > Feeling adventurous, I hought i'd try cups with the latest install > (unstable-ish). I get a readable test print via the printing manager. QCad > prints to it perfectly normally. But gimp prints postscript commands (or > maybe it's pdf) one line per page for ever. Once it has done that, and I > have switched off the printer to save the dwindling supply of forest, the > print queue is locked until I go and find the directory and delete it by > hand. I cannot remove the job using the print manager - "You don't have > access to the requested resources". (Seems like the opposite of Kenward > Vaughan's problem). I have put my username in group lpadmin to no avail. I > thought I would give up and go back to LP/LPRng, which seemed to work fine > under Woody. No joy there either - when I select LP/LPRng in print manager > there is no option to add a printer, and the xerox isn't listed. > > CUPS manual doesn't seem to say anything helpful and understandable to me. > Nothing else obviously relevant on Google. Perhaps my printer is not > supported by cups. But if so, how do I get back to reaching it via lp? > > Any ideas?
Well, you speak of at least one application which prints perfectly normally. So you know there's nothing wrong with CUPS, ;-). To make really sure, try sending a one-page postscript file to the printer using the command-line tools lp or lpr (if you installed cupsys-bsd). If that also works perfectly normally, it's the gimp. There was a thread a few days ago, IIRC, dealing with gimp-print. You could probably find it in the archives. HTH, David -- Happy Birthday, Debian! August 16, 1993 http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/print/4959/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
