[opensuse] still trying to print
/\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/-\-/\-/ That's the hair I've torn out! I KNOW that this machine with SuSE 10.0 would print to the HP Laserjet 2200D, but with SuSE 9.3, I can't get it to print to anything, altho it tries to access printers. (10.0 ruined my mail, so I went back to 9.3.) I have tried, in Yast, the two possible PostScript choices, one without Foomatic and one with. Both of them send _something_ to the printer, but nothing comes out, and the light just keeps blinking. If I could get this working, I could live with SuSE for quite a while, while I try to get the XP machine working again, but without a printer, I'm hopelessly lost. And I do need PostScript, since OO won't output a spreadsheet without it. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
--- Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@optonline.net> wrote:
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That's the hair I've torn out! I KNOW that this machine with SuSE 10.0 would print to the HP Laserjet 2200D, but with SuSE 9.3, I can't get it to print to anything, altho it tries to access printers. (10.0 ruined my mail, so I went back to 9.3.)
I have tried, in Yast, the two possible PostScript choices, one without Foomatic and one with. Both of them send _something_ to the printer, but nothing comes out, and the light just keeps blinking. If I could get this working, I could live with SuSE for quite a while, while I try to get the XP machine working again, but without a printer, I'm hopelessly lost. And I do need PostScript, since OO won't output a spreadsheet without it.
--doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Doug: Here's some info from linuxprinting.org: http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_2200 What I have done with new printers that aren't in yast is to download the ppd file and in yast point it to that file. Works fine. --Karl ____________________________________________________________________________________ Need a quick answer? Get one in minutes from people who know. Ask your question on www.Answers.yahoo.com -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Doug McGarrett wrote:
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That's the hair I've torn out! I KNOW that this machine with SuSE 10.0 would print to the HP Laserjet 2200D, but with SuSE 9.3, I can't get it to print to anything, altho it tries to access printers.
That's odd, I ran 9.3 on the desktop for over a year at work. Print setup was quick and easy, and I printed stuff on network attached printers many times daily - what steps did you take to set up the printer in yast? If not, where did you run into trouble in the effort to print the test page?
(10.0 ruined my mail, so I went back to 9.3.)
You've got something else going on there - I've run mail clients and mail servers on 10.0 and never saw a piece of mail lost.
I have tried, in Yast, the two possible PostScript choices, one without Foomatic and one with. Both of them send _something_ to the printer, but nothing comes out, and the light just keeps blinking. If I could get this working, I could live with SuSE for quite a while, while I try to get the XP machine working again, but without a printer, I'm hopelessly lost. And I do need PostScript, since OO won't output a spreadsheet without it.
Can't help you with expee, I've certainly no use for it. As far as postscript, you can only use the postscript printer driver if you are printing to a postscript printer. Why not just choose the printer model from the menu in the printer setup tool, and let yast decide what driver to use? OOO doesn't care what kind of printer driver you use, only that you can print. Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Sunday 10 December 2006 21:56, J Sloan wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
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That's the hair I've torn out! I KNOW that this machine with SuSE 10.0 would print to the HP Laserjet 2200D, but with SuSE 9.3, I can't get it to print to anything, altho it tries to access printers.
That's odd, I ran 9.3 on the desktop for over a year at work. Print setup was quick and easy, and I printed stuff on network attached printers many times daily - what steps did you take to set up the printer in yast? If not, where did you run into trouble in the effort to print the test page?
In YaST, you get options for about 5 different ways to set up the printer. It knows the HP 2200D. When I try them, I get some kind of complaint about HPLIP. Someone suggested I d/l HPLIP from somewhere, which I did. I don't really know how to access it and make it work, altho I know where it is. (I will continue to look into that--what I really need is one of the old Linux manuals from 7~8 years ago, that told me how to do things like that. They're here, somewhere.)
(10.0 ruined my mail, so I went back to 9.3.)
You've got something else going on there - I've run mail clients and mail servers on 10.0 and never saw a piece of mail lost.
I started a whole thread on this some time ago. Every so often, KMail in 10.0 would output Chinese characters instead of the Roman alphabet. Nobody could figure it out, altho there were one or two others who had experienced the same problem. Since some of my email is important, I had to give up on it. (I had 10.0 on the other (XP) machine, but it couldn't access the net due to hardware incompatibility.)
I have tried, in Yast, the two possible PostScript choices, one without Foomatic and one with. Both of them send _something_ to the printer, but nothing comes out, and the light just keeps blinking. If I could get this working, I could live with SuSE for quite a while, while I try to get the XP machine working again, but without a printer, I'm hopelessly lost. And I do need PostScript, since OO won't output a spreadsheet without it.
Can't help you with expee, I've certainly no use for it. As far as postscript, you can only use the postscript printer driver if you are printing to a postscript printer. Why not just choose the printer model from the menu in the printer setup tool, and let yast decide what driver to use? OOO doesn't care what kind of printer driver you use, only that you can print.
That is apparently not the case. OO will print type to anything, assuming you can get the printer to work, but if you try to output a spreadsheet from whatever they call the equivalent to Quattro, you get a message that only PostScript printers are supported. The HP 2200D is a PostScript printer. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Sunday 10 December 2006 21:56, J Sloan wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
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That's the hair I've torn out! I KNOW that this machine with SuSE 10.0 would print to the HP Laserjet 2200D, but with SuSE 9.3, I can't get it to print to anything, altho it tries to access printers.
That's odd, I ran 9.3 on the desktop for over a year at work. Print setup was quick and easy, and I printed stuff on network attached printers many times daily - what steps did you take to set up the printer in yast? If not, where did you run into trouble in the effort to print the test page?
In YaST, you get options for about 5 different ways to set up the printer. It knows the HP 2200D. When I try them, I get some kind of complaint about HPLIP. Someone suggested I d/l HPLIP from somewhere, which I did. I don't really know how to access it and make it work, altho I know where it is. (I will continue to look into that--what I really need is one of the old Linux manuals from 7~8 years ago, that told me how to do things like that. They're here, somewhere.)
(10.0 ruined my mail, so I went back to 9.3.)
You've got something else going on there - I've run mail clients and mail servers on 10.0 and never saw a piece of mail lost.
I started a whole thread on this some time ago. Every so often, KMail in 10.0 would output Chinese characters instead of the Roman alphabet. Nobody could figure it out, altho there were one or two others who had experienced the same problem. Since some of my email is important, I had to give up on it. (I had 10.0 on the other (XP) machine, but it couldn't access the net due to hardware incompatibility.)
I have tried, in Yast, the two possible PostScript choices, one without Foomatic and one with. Both of them send _something_ to the printer, but nothing comes out, and the light just keeps blinking. If I could get this working, I could live with SuSE for quite a while, while I try to get the XP machine working again, but without a printer, I'm hopelessly lost. And I do need PostScript, since OO won't output a spreadsheet without it.
Can't help you with expee, I've certainly no use for it. As far as postscript, you can only use the postscript printer driver if you are printing to a postscript printer. Why not just choose the printer model from the menu in the printer setup tool, and let yast decide what driver to use? OOO doesn't care what kind of printer driver you use, only that you can print.
That is apparently not the case. OO will print type to anything, assuming you can get the printer to work, but if you try to output a spreadsheet from whatever they call the equivalent to Quattro, you get a message that only PostScript printers are supported.
The HP 2200D is a PostScript printer.
--doug
is that a laser or ink jet does it still work under windows? can you still print a test page with out the computer your manual will tell you how network or usb,parallel port suse ? 9.3,10, 10.1, ? cups, lpt ? are you using the setup as a print server I had to use http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/ 1.6.6a the suse one didn't work for me I'm running 10.0 with the hp business ink jet 1000 got a deal from tiger direct let me know how you make out -- Hans Krueger hanskrueger@adelphia.net registered Linux user 289023 411024 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On Monday 11 December 2006 18:47, Hans Krueger wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
On Sunday 10 December 2006 21:56, J Sloan wrote:
Doug McGarrett wrote:
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That's the hair I've torn out! I KNOW that this machine with SuSE 10.0 would print to the HP Laserjet 2200D, but with SuSE 9.3, I can't get it to print to anything, altho it tries to access printers. /break/ That is apparently not the case. OO will print type to anything, assuming you can get the printer to work, but if you try to output a spreadsheet from whatever they call the equivalent to Quattro, you get a message that only PostScript printers are supported.
The HP 2200D is a PostScript printer.
--doug
is that a laser or ink jet does it still work under windows? can you still print a test page with out the computer your manual will tell you how network or usb,parallel port suse ? 9.3,10, 10.1, ? cups, lpt ? are you using the setup as a print server I had to use http://sourceforge.net/projects/hplip/ 1.6.6a the suse one didn't work for me I'm running 10.0 with the hp business ink jet 1000 got a deal from tiger direct let me know how you make out
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Hans Krueger hanskrueger@adelphia.net
The HP 2200D is a laserjet. There seems to be a problem about HPLIP. (Separate mail, in this thread.) I have the machine working with an HP 970Ci color ink-jet printer, which was a problem before, but it seems to be OK now. Slow, but useable. It actually does print a spreadsheet without a problem, and I don't think it is a PostScript printer, but I'm not sure. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
Doug McGarrett wrote:
In YaST, you get options for about 5 different ways to set up the printer. It knows the HP 2200D. When I try them, I get some kind of complaint about HPLIP. Someone suggested I d/l HPLIP from somewhere, which I did.
Yikes - if you need hplip, you should have gotten it from the suse install CDs, rather than downloading some unknown tarball from somewhere. Yast has a section for software install, just fire it up, search for hplip, and click to install it.
I started a whole thread on this some time ago. Every so often, KMail in 10.0 would output Chinese characters instead of the Roman alphabet. Nobody could figure it out, altho there were one or two others who had experienced the same problem. Since some of my email is important, I had to give up on it. (I had 10.0 on the other (XP) machine, but it couldn't access the net due to hardware incompatibility.)
Ah, some bug in kmail - that could be, Even though I run kde, I've always used netscape/mozilla/thunderbird mail clients over the last 12 years or so, even though I've toyed with kmail, evolution, and others...
The HP 2200D is a PostScript printer.
In that case, setup ought to be easy - at miniumum, you could just go into yast and tell it you have a postscript printer, bam, you're done. er.. well... the only question is, where is the printer? connected to your system via parallel cable? connected to your system via usb cable? directly network attached? connected to a windoze peecee? or? Joe -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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