151103 Mick wrote: > On Tuesday 03 Nov 2015 18:33:58 Philip Webb wrote: >> The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality, >> but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge). >> Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'. >> >> In Mint, when that is set via the 631 menu, printing works correctly : >> I can print text files via Gvim (icon or :ha ) & Gedit, .odt via LO >> & PDF via Evince ; Gedit & Evince have their own quality settings. >> >> In Gentoo, the 631 setting has no effect, so all printing is draft. >> Only Kwrite has its own quality setting, which does work properly for text. >> In addition, the icon doesn't work in Gvim, tho' :ha does. >> It cb caused by the difference in desktops, Xfce on Mint, Fluxbox on Gentoo >> : perhaps the bigger desktop managers do the job themselves, >> whereas something else needs fixing with the lightweight Fluxbox. > Is your gentoo user a member of lp & lpadmin group?
'lpadmin' yes ; 'lp' no, but 'lp' is a member : I've added my userid. On the face of it, the latter shouldn't make a difference, but I can test. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca
