Re: Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-27 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks.  That was a great lead!

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-24 Thread Chris Lale
Clyde Wilson wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work. My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print something it just disappears. It pri

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
Thanks Mark, that did the trick. I appreciate it! --- Mark Grieveson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, rea

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
I used printconf and it got me going...thanks for your help! --- Grant Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What type of driver are you using for the printer? > Usually I am able to get generic printing > functionality fro CUPS by choosing > the Raw printer option. > It should be the one that stat

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-22 Thread Clyde Wilson
--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Tue, Feb 21, 2006 at 04:57:47PM -0800, Clyde > Wilson had the following words of wisdom... > > I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able > to > > print anything. I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and > others, > > read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothi

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Mark Grieveson
On 2/21/06, Clyde Wilson < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have installed Debian 3.1 r1 and I am not able to print anything.  I've used CUPS, Kprinter, and others, read the howto's and the mailing list, but nothing seems to work.  My printer, Epson Stylus C68, seems to install, but when I print

Re: Printer problems from a newbie

2006-02-21 Thread Grant Thomas
What type of driver are you using for the printer?Usually I am able to get generic printing functionality fro CUPS by choosing the Raw printer option.It should be the one that states no driver is needed.Also, I usually add my user account into the lpadmin group. How are you connecting to your print

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-27 Thread Strake
On 6/27/05, Ernst-Magne Vindal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Strake wrote:> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:09:13 -0400> From: Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>> To: debian-user < debian-user@lists.debian.org>> Subject: Re: Printer problems> Resent-Date: Mon

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-27 Thread Ernst-Magne Vindal
On Mon, 27 Jun 2005, Strake wrote: > Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 06:09:13 -0400 > From: Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: debian-user > Subject: Re: Printer problems > Resent-Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 05:09:19 -0500 (CDT) > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org > >

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-27 Thread Clive Menzies
On (27/06/05 06:09), Strake wrote: > On 6/26/05, hacker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > On 6/26/05, Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > HP PSC 1350 all-in-one. Connected using USB. I tried printing with both > > lpr > > > and Firefox (neither works). > > > > Are you using cups? Did you in

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-27 Thread Strake
From: Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Jun 27, 2005 6:08 AMSubject: Re: Printer problemsTo: hacker < [EMAIL PROTECTED]>On 6/26/05, hacker < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/26/05, Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:>  HP PSC 1350 all-in-one. Connected using USB. I tried printing with both lpr > and Fire

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread hacker
On 6/26/05, Strake <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > HP PSC 1350 all-in-one. Connected using USB. I tried printing with both lpr > and Firefox (neither works). Are you using cups? Did you install the cupsys-client in addition to the cupsys package? Could be a permission problem with your /dev/usb/lp

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread Strake
On 6/26/05, Steve Block <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Strake wrote:>I'm running Sarge, and I can't print. My printer's on, and try to print>something but nothing happens. It gets stuck as a job on the spool and>doesn't print. Well, what kind of printer?, how i

Re: Printer problems

2005-06-26 Thread Steve Block
On Sun, Jun 26, 2005 at 04:35:13PM -0400, Strake wrote: I'm running Sarge, and I can't print. My printer's on, and try to print something but nothing happens. It gets stuck as a job on the spool and doesn't print. Well, what kind of printer?, how is it connected?, what printing system are you

Re: Printer Problems

2004-11-22 Thread Noah Durell
Clive Menzies wrote: On (19/11/04 14:29), Noah Durell wrote: Hello, I seem to be getting this error when I try to add a network printer to my printer list in KDE: Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS ser

Re: Printer Problems

2004-11-22 Thread Clive Menzies
On (19/11/04 14:29), Noah Durell wrote: > Hello, > I seem to be getting this error when I try to add a network printer to > my printer list in KDE: > > Unable to retrieve the printer list. Error message received from manager: > Connection to CUPS server failed. Check that the CUPS server is > co

Re: printer problems

2004-04-04 Thread Pedro M. (Morphix User)
Darik Horn escribió: You need to install a print filter, which is much like a print driver under Microsoft Windows. I use ApsFilter with my HP printers. Run this command as the root user to install the package: # apt-get install apsfilter IIRC, the ApsFilter installer will print a colorful t

Re: printer problems

2004-03-22 Thread Paul Johnson
"terryfitzgerald" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > where would i go in google to set my hp deskjet 400 printer > so i can print out colored pages? Probably something like a search for... hp deskjet 400 color howto ...or something like that. > it will not allow me to print,it come's out in all nothi

Re: printer problems

2004-03-22 Thread Darik Horn
You need to install a print filter, which is much like a print driver under Microsoft Windows. I use ApsFilter with my HP printers. Run this command as the root user to install the package: # apt-get install apsfilter IIRC, the ApsFilter installer will print a colorful test page. If you get

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
A further update. I started double checking everything. I proofread mime.convs and mime.types again, then ran dpkg -l|grep -i cups and started running debsums with the "a" option which I hadn't used before. debsums -as cupsys debsums: checksum mismatch cupsys file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf debsums -

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-07 Thread Thomas H. George
Yes. The same error with lpr. On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:23:36PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: > > This latter is the one I use with my Epson 860 without having errors > you report. > > > *PPD-Adobe: "4.3" > > *%PPD file for

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-06 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 09:58:31AM -0500, Thomas H. George wrote: This latter is the one I use with my Epson 860 without having errors you report. > *PPD-Adobe: "4.3" > *%PPD file for CUPS/GIMP-print. > *%Copyright 1993-2001 by Easy Software Products, All Rights Reserved. > *%This PPD file may

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-06 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 09:23:27PM -0500, Jerome Acks Jr wrote: > On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:38:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > > > > The problem: Printing a simple ASCII file (printtest) from a terminal. > > The results of lp printtest are as follows: > > > >Epson Stylus Color

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Jerome Acks Jr
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 10:38:32AM -0500, Thomas H. George,,, wrote: > I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, > cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: > >Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs > (my d

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Thomas H. George
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 01:15:21PM -0600, Donald Spoon wrote: > > Sounds like you are missing a "filter". Here are a couple of > suggestions for each situation: > > 1. Check and make sure you have Ghostscript installed and working. > > 2. In the KDE Control Center --> System --> Printing Man

Re: Printer Problems

2003-02-05 Thread Donald Spoon
Thomas H. George,,, wrote: I have three standalone systems all with cupsys, cupsomatic, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, gimp1.2, gimp1.2-print and kdelibs3-cups: Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with HP Deskjet 940c, Foomatic+hpijs (my daughter) Debian Woody, 2.4.18 kernel with Brot