Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-19 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Tue, 19 Aug 2003 00:20:35 -0600 Dave Thayer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using an ML-1210 with CUPS on a system tracking unstable for > about a year and a half, so sometime in that period it must have been > working with what now is the stable distro... > > The one thing I had to do

RE: Printing help, please.

2003-08-19 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi all, I received a suggestion to run 'cupstestppd and to check printcap. The result from cupstestppd was a blank line on screen and no activity from the printer. Printcap returned some info about my printer but I have no idea where to add a call to /var/run/cups/printcap, I couldnt find any info

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Dave Thayer
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 11:05:17PM -0400, Kevin McKinley wrote: > I spent more than 12 hours today and yesterday trying to get CUPS working > with a Samsung ML-1210 laser printer, and reluctantly concluded it wasn't > possible using only stable packages. > > I got it running using a bunch of unst

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Kevin McKinley
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003 09:20:24 -0500 "Wathen, Metherion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. > First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. > I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. > I inst

RE: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Thanks, I'll try this tonight and let you know how it goes. mw -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Kenward Vaughan
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:20:24AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote: > Hi all, > I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. > First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. > I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. > I installed the ppd fi

Printing help, please.

2003-08-18 Thread Wathen, Metherion
Hi all, I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian. First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet. I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages. I installed the ppd file for my printer from the Linuxprinting.org site. I rtfm'd several times and

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 04:25:06PM +, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:22, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > foomatic-compiledb -t ppd pnm2ppa > > > > did that too > > what was the output when you ran this command? got it - you have to execute that command sitting in /etc > >

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Rob Weir
On Wed, Nov 13, 2002 at 11:12:01AM +0530, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > works okay when i am root. > > when i am a user, it prints, bash: /dev/lp0 access denied! > > do i change permissions on /dev/lp0 or add the user to some group? Which group owns /dev/lp0? rob@leserver:~$ ls -Ll /dev/lp0 crw-rw

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-13 Thread Avtar Marwaha
On Wed, 2002-11-13 at 06:22, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and >all of > > > the necessary dependencies. > > did that. > > > Download foomatic-db and foomatic-bin and their deps. > > did this as well > > > Then as ro

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:51:15PM +, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:48, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and >all of > > the necessary dependencies

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:47:10AM -0500, Travis Crump wrote: > Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > >>On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > >>> > >>>

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 06:02:09PM +, Rupert wrote: > On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > what to do now? > > > > > > > try to print somethi

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Avtar Marwaha
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 14:48, Avtar Marwaha wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: You will need the cupsys-server, cupsys-client, foomatic-db, pnm2ppa packages and all of > the necessary dependencies. Sorry, I made some mistakes. There are two ways of doing this. You

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Rupert
On 12 Nov 2002 07:27:27 +0100 Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > what to do now? > > > > > try to print something? > > echo "test" | lpr > > does nothing! You may possibly need

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Avtar Marwaha
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. > > here is the set-up: > > computer is running on woody 3.0 > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) >

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 04:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hello all! > > my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. > > here is the set-up: > > computer is running on woody 3.0 > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) >

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 01:28, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > try to print something? > > echo "test" | lpr > > does nothing! Ummm... Should Work (TM). > > > > failing that did you configure magicfilter? or your printcap file? I > > used /sbin/magicfilterconfig and my printer worked like magic(o

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Travis Crump
Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: hp deskjet 710c printer is connec

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 01:08:17AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on l

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows >nomenclature) > > Just a general guess, but:

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote: > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows >nomenclature) > Just a general guess, but: > apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa did that. now, althoug

Re: repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Scott Henson
On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote: > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) Just a general guess, but: apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa -Scott Henson -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe

repost - printing - help please

2002-11-11 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! my umpteen number of attempts to set my printer have been unsuccessful. here is the set-up: computer is running on woody 3.0 hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature) i tried reading linuxprinting.org - could not unsderstand much here is w