Hi All I had my PSC 2110 working all perfectly in 8.2 , thanks to a lot of help here on and off the list. It was a relieve to see that the installation in 9.0 was easy and flawless. There is just one little thing: In 8.2 I used to get the print options like draft>normal>high and important the photo option. Those options seem to have dissappeared in 9.0, so how can I get the photo option back? I looked in CUPS and Google but couldn't find anything relevant. Anybody knows how to fix this? -- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
In 8.2 that options was like if we had many printers installed. Now in 9.0 you must have to choose that options in propertyes just beside the printer's names. On Friday 21 November 2003 21:54, Bill Wisse wrote:
Hi All
I had my PSC 2110 working all perfectly in 8.2 , thanks to a lot of help here on and off the list. It was a relieve to see that the installation in 9.0 was easy and flawless. There is just one little thing: In 8.2 I used to get the print options like draft>normal>high and important the photo option. Those options seem to have dissappeared in 9.0, so how can I get the photo option back? I looked in CUPS and Google but couldn't find anything relevant.
Anybody knows how to fix this? -- Greetings from
/bill at 169 west , 19 south.
Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
Found it! It's hidden in the driver settings. Sorry about that. /bill On Friday 21 November 2003 16:54, Bill Wisse wrote:
Hi All
I had my PSC 2110 working all perfectly in 8.2 , thanks to a lot of help here on and off the list. It was a relieve to see that the installation in 9.0 was easy and flawless. There is just one little thing: In 8.2 I used to get the print options like draft>normal>high and important the photo option. Those options seem to have dissappeared in 9.0, so how can I get the photo option back? I looked in CUPS and Google but couldn't find anything relevant.
Anybody knows how to fix this? -- Greetings from
/bill at 169 west , 19 south.
Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
-- Greetings from /bill at 169 west , 19 south. Disclaimer: Any errors in spelling, tact, or fact are transmission errors."
Hello, On Nov 21 16:54 Bill Wisse wrote (shortened):
In 8.2 I used to get the print options like draft>normal>high and important the photo option. Those options seem to have dissappeared in 9.0
What you called "options" in 8.2 (and 8.1) have been in fact multiple queues for the same printer - see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/09/jsmeix_print-einrichten-81.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The printing system CUPS offers the user the opportunity to define individual settings for each printout. There is no fixed queue configuration, but the possibilities for printer-specific settings for each queue are stored in a PPD (PostScript Printer Description) file and can be presented to the user through a print dialog. By selecting a preconfiguration from YaST2's printer database, the corresponding settings are set to be used by default in the PPD file with YaST2's printer configuration. Several different settings usually must be changed in the PPD file for a certain preconfiguration. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Because several different settings usually must be changed in the PPD file to switch for example from a low resolution monochrome mode to a high resolution photo mode we set up multiple queues to make such switchings easier. In particular older application programs which cannot use CUPS functions directly may show only the available queues (according to /etc/printcap) and not the options from the PPD file. If you have only one single printer it may be the easies way to switch between different printing modes to set up one seperated queue for each printing mode and then select only the appropriate queue. But this is not in full compliance to the design of CUPS. In CUPS there should be exactly one queue for each printer and the selection of different printing modes should be done by selecting appropriate options in the PPD file. Since Foomatic version 3.x there is the "Printout Mode" option in most of the Foomatic PPD files for inkjet printers. When the user selects a printout mode then all the individual option settigs which are necessary for the particular printing mode are set simulaneously. Therefore one PPD file for one printer is sufficient in this case - see http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/jsmeix_print-cups-options.html Therefore since SUSE LINUX 9.0 we do no longer set up multiple queues for the same printer by default. Nevertheless if you do a manual setup of your printer with YaST i.e. select "Other (not detected)" in YaST then there is a check-box "Automatically propose multiple queues". If it was activated then for each "Printout Mode" in the PPD file YaST will create one seperated queue and the queue name matches the "Printout Mode". As I wrote above this is not in full compliance to the design of CUPS. If you want to have sets of option settings stored somewhere then you should create "instances" of the one single queue. Via command line use a command like this: lpoptions -o OPTION1=CHOICE1 -o OPTION2=CHOICE2 ... -p QUEUE/INSTANCE which options and choices are possible is shown by lpoptions -p QUEUE -l where the actually used setting is indicated by a leading asterisk see the Administration manual and http://portal.suse.com/sdb/en/2002/11/jsmeix_print-cups-options.html For example: lpoptions -p printer1 -l ... Resolution/Resolution setting: 300dpi *600dpi 1200dpi JCLEconomode/EconoMode: *False True ... lpoptions -o Resolution=300dpi -o JCLEconomode=True -p printer1/low creates an instance "low" for the queue "printer1". Regards Johannes Meixner ----------------------------------------------------------- SUSE LINUX AG, Deutschherrnstr. 15-19 Mail: jsmeix@suse.de 90429 Nuernberg, Germany WWW: http://www.suse.de/ -----------------------------------------------------------
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Bill Wisse
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Cuitlahuac Gomez Labougle
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Johannes Meixner