Re: Printer hassle

2006-11-24 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
George Langford wrote: > Progress ! Excellent output from the PDF viewer and OpenOffice SXW's > but not with HTML files, even though OK previews appear on screen. I guess this is related to the horrible mess that mozilla's products tend to send to the printer. Johannes -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, emai

Re: Printer hassle

2006-11-19 Thread George Langford
The plot thickens ... I started with: I attempted fixing it by deleting the printer and reinstalling it; I chose a different driver: Epson Stylus Photo 870 Foomatic/Stp870p.upp. Roger Leigh wrote: This appears to be a Ghostscript UniPrint driver. I wouldn't recommend this one. Install cups

Re: Printer hassle

2006-11-19 Thread Roger Leigh
George Langford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I attempted fixing it by deleting the printer and reinstalling it; I > chose a different driver: Epson Stylus Photo 870 Foomatic/Stp870p.upp. This appears to be a Ghostscript UniPrint driver. I wouldn't recommend this one. Install cupsys-driver-gimp

Re: Printer hassle

2006-11-16 Thread Mark Grieveson
It looks to me as though the printer installation (which I did through the CUPS GUI interface) wasn't completed. What do I do next ? Perhaps installing the package printconf, and then running the command "printconf" (as root) will work. Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Printer hassle

2006-11-16 Thread Hugo Vanwoerkom
George Langford wrote: My Epson Stylus Photo 870 printer started misbehaving ... but only when connected to my debian (Sarge) PC. Plugged into a Win98SE PC it worked fine. George Langford [EMAIL PROTECTED] I don't know George: still holding onto HP Deskjet Plus I bought 16 years ago fo

Printer hassle

2006-11-16 Thread George Langford
My Epson Stylus Photo 870 printer started misbehaving ... but only when connected to my debian (Sarge) PC. Plugged into a Win98SE PC it worked fine. The principal symptom was that it would print in monochrome red when it was supposed to be printing black. Color images would not print at all. I