Printing problem

[Ian Stephen]

On Mon, 2005-01-24 at 05:17, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
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> It would seem the C84 has plenty of trouble :(
> I have been using a C84 for some time in a networked install.  Since
> upgrading Mozilla apps (or some automated update from SuSE) I lost the
> ability to print from Mozilla (and perhaps OOo, hadn't checked).  The
> issue for me was using the "2-pages in one" setting inside of KPrinter.
> ~ For some reason this caused the print job to be dumped and never
> actually reached the printer.  Perhaps since this is networked this
> could be the same or similar issue?

I'll check that, thanks.  I think this is something different though
'cause all jobs reach the printer, just some applications print properly
while OpenOffice.org and Firefox print unfiltered postscript.

What's coming out of the printer is the same as what is seen if one
prints to file (postscript) from OpenOffice.org, then opens that file in
Emacs.

ie;
%!PS-Adobe-3.0
%%BoundingBox: (atend)
%%Creator: OpenOffice.org 1.1.3

and so on for thousands of lines.

One possible work-around that I haven't tried yet is to replace the
"lpr" command in OpenOffice.org's spadmin dialogue with "kprinter
-stdin"

Seems like a kludge though, even if it does work. :-(

Am learning a thing or two about printing under Linux though.  Next to
try is set LogLevel to debug in /etc/cups/cupsd.conf and try printing
from a couple of apps that work and a couple that don't.

Cheers,
IanS