Printing problem

[Mike Reinehr]

On Saturday 22 January 2005 06:42 pm, IAN STEPHEN wrote:
> Hello list
>
> I have an odd printing problem that has me beat so far.
>
> Using Mandrake 10.1 printing to an Epson C84 it seems applications that
> send postscript to the printing system result in raw postscript being
> output at the printer.  Gimp and Emacs and Evolution print fine. 
> OpenOffice.org (v 1.1.3 included with Mandrake 10.1 Community) and Firefox
> give raw postscript.
>
> This machine used to print fine and I don't know what might have changed to
> cause this.  I tried installing OpenOffice.org1.1.4 from the OpenOffice.org
> site, but it also prints postscript.
>
> I updated CUPS with a bug-fix update from Mandrake.  No joy.
>
> The same printer connected to a Mandrake 10.0 machine prints fine.
>
> Both machines are set up to use foomatic/gimp-print-ijs
>
> I'm Googling and RTFMing round in circles.  Any suggestions would be very
> welcome!
>
> Thanks,
> IanS
>
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Have you checked your print driver setups? CUPS, OOo, Gimp & Mozilla all have 
different printing setups. OOo & Gimp both use their own, different drivers. 
If Gimp is working, but OOo isn't, the first thing I would do is check the 
printer setup in OOo. As far as I know, all native Linux applications format 
their printed output in Postscript and, if you have a PS capable printer, you 
can just send the raw output to the printer. But, if your printer is not PS 
capable, then the output must be translated by a driver. Sounds to me as if 
your setups have been changed to raw, from whatever the driver was 
previously.

Mozilla defaults to printing to you system, default  printer via lp or lpr, 
which should have been set up by CUPS. But, for that to work you have to have 
installed the CUPSSYS-BSD package  which installs CUPS compatible substitutes 
for the standard BSD lpd commands.

Check your CUPS printer setup as well to see which driver you are using, or 
just are printing raw.

HTH

cmr
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