Constantine 'Gus' Fantanas wrote:
But when I try to print from inside firefox or Thunderbird, it seems it wants to print the Postscript instructions rather than executing them.
I have the same problems with an old HP laserjet, both on AMD64 and i386 installations (and various SuSE / openSuSE versions since about 9.3 right up to 10.2. Yet to try it in 10.3a2). Solution was to select a different PPD during YaST install - I usually use LJ5 - then it all works nicely.
I have done sooooo much googling trying to solve this problem! I think I read somewhere that the 'foomatic-rip' filter should be avoided. I am not sure where I read it. The driver invoked by CUPS is the generic 'Foomatic/hpijs' driver, which is provided by HP and is used on many other HP printers. I guess it was the same driver I was using under SuSE 10.0_x64.
I'm getting out of my depth here, we need someone who knows a bit more about printing and CUPS. Maybe worth a punt on one of the (very busy) TB / FF support fora? However, it might also be worth mentioning that the non-functioning PPD that I referred to above was also a foomatic one. Is there any other PPD for your model? Or maybe for a similar model - my printer is a 2100, but as I said, I used LJ5 (and not foomatic) and it worked just fine. Loads of LJ5s around so any bugs are more likely to be fixed! Also, I think the problem is probably not related to the 64 bit version of OS10.2 but general to other recent versions and for i386 Good luck & please do post back if you get a solution! -- Cheers Richard. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-amd64+help@opensuse.org