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) 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? Cheers and an Exciting New Year
Hi. First of all: Sorry, I never saw your problems before. 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
Looks like you are printing raw data. Have a closer look at the logfiles: /var/log/cups/error_log Maybe "debug" for more verbose information in the logfile is necessary. In this case set option in file /etc/cups/cupsd.conf LogLevel debug and do a "rccups force-reload" as root.
2) No print quality choices (plain paper, grayscale, medium quality color, high quality color, photo etc) on any other application (OO, mozilla, etc)
Did you install your printer as a "raw queue" or as a filtered one (= with PPD file)? If the PPD file is missing (= /etc/cups/ppd/<<queuename>>.ppd ) then reinstall the PPD file (and optional set your page size in one step): lpadmin -p <<queue>> -P \ /usr/share/cups/model/HP/PhotoSmart_P1100-hpijs.ppd.gz \ -o PageSize=Letter If this fails, have a closer look at the cups logfiles (see above).
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.
If you just copied your printer configuration from old SuSE 8.2 then this is the problem. Permissions/Ownership and number of options in the config files have changed.
I've got both a foomatic_hpijs queue and a CUPS-GIMP queue which test well.
Means that this is not a CUPS specific problem, as CUPS is already printing pages with your new configuration for the test pages. You should search your problem more in the gimp package suite, in this case.
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!
I doubt that this helps. There is something weird in your current printing system. In doubt, I would re-install the whole printing system.
Any help from a printing veteran?
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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
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