On Tuesday 28 December 2004 05:00 pm, Pierre Patino wrote:
Hello everyone Two hours of RFM and Google and I can't solve these:
1) I can't print from the gimp -> tons of blank pages. Even after turning accounting off in /etc/foomatic/filter.conf 2) No print quality choices (plain paper, grayscale, medium quality color, high quality color, photo etc) on any other application (OO, mozilla, etc)
kprinter (in KDE) will let you do this. It's an extra mouse click or two, but I like the options so I often send to kprinter first instead of striaght to the printer.
The printer is HP Photosmart P1000 which worked very very very very very well under my old SuSE 8.2 system with absolutely no need to download anything from the web.
I've got both a foomatic_hpijs queue and a CUPS-GIMP queue which test well.
In a possible answer to #2, do I have to create a queue for every single print quality choice? I never had to do that before!
Any help from a printing veteran?
I don't qualify as a printing veteran, but I'll tell you what I did in gimp to solve this problem. I use kde and like kprinter. From the gimp > print window, select new printer. It asks for a name -- I simple called it kprinter. With kprinter selected in in Printer Name:, click 'Setup Printer'. In my case, 'Printer Model:' defaulted to Postscript Level 2 (even though it's not a postscript printer) and I just left it there. In the 'Command:' box I put "kprinter --stdin" (no quotes). Click 'OK'. If I remember correctly, you need to 'Save Settings' for it to be remembered the next time. You might want try it once and see if it works before you save the settings. Good luck! Doug