On 21:25 Sun 14 Mar , Ron Johnson wrote: > Here's what my Sid system reports: > > $ dir /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/ > total 144 > drwxr-xr-x 8 root root 36864 2009-06-17 20:17:34 ./ > drwxr-xr-x 17 root root 4096 2009-03-14 08:17:14 ../ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 de/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 16384 2009-06-17 20:17:34 en/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 es/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 fr/ > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 it/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4234 2009-06-16 02:21:34 kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt > drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 2009-06-17 20:17:34 pt/ > -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19596 2009-06-16 02:21:34 ReadMe.htm
and here is mine ls /home/mlaks# ls /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/ -ltr total 52 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 19596 Jun 16 2009 ReadMe.htm -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4234 Jun 16 2009 kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 pt drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 fr drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 it drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 es drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 en drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 10 00:54 de and file /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt /usr/share/ppd/postscript/Kyocera/kyocera_ppd_8.2.txt: ASCII English text > Loose connection somewhere? i have had flaky printing (ie intermittent stopping of printing) on all three machines with the standard install of cups. 2 machines are running sid and my dad's is an old 4.0 install because all he needs is openoffice and internet. > Understandable. > > What exactly is the printer driver you are using? hplip? yep i have that installed and i use Rashi:/home/mlaks# dpkg -l|grep hplip ii hplip 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging System (HPLIP) ii hplip-cups 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster dr ii hplip-data 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - data files ii hplip-doc 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - documentation ii hplip-gui 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - GUI utilities and on the sid machine I have: i cups 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server ii cups-bsd 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands ii cups-client 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client progr ii cups-common 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.4-1 printer drivers for CUPS ii cups-ppdc 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipula ii cupsddk 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack ii cupsys 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack ii cupsys-bsd 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack ii cupsys-client 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack ii cupsys-common 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack ii ghostscript-cups 8.71~dfsg-2 The GPL Ghostscript PostScript/PDF interpreter rc gnome-cups-manager 0.31-3+b1 CUPS printer admin tool for GNOME ii hal-cups-utils 0.6.16-3 Utilities to detect and configure printers aut ii hplip-cups 3.10.2-1 HP Linux Printing and Imaging - CUPS Raster dr ii libcups2 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Core library ii libcups2-dev 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Development ii libcupscgi1 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - CGI library ii libcupsdriver1 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Driver libra ii libcupsimage2 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - Raster image ii libcupsmime1 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - MIME library ii libcupsppdc1 1.4.2-9.1 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - PPD manipula ii libcupsys2 1.3.11-2 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack ii libcupsys2-dev 1.3.11-2 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional pack ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.3-3+b1 GNOME library for CUPS interaction ii libgnomecupsui1.0-1c2a 0.31-3+b1 UI extensions to libgnomecups ii python-cups 1.9.48-1 Python bindings for CUPS ii python-cupsutils 1.0.0-6 Python utility modules around the CUPS printin I chose the Postscript recommended option in the hp drivers section in cups... Thank you for your interest Ron, you have been very helpful in the past too! Mitchell Laks -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20100315025229.gc4...@earthlink.net