Re: Need help setting up printing in Jessie

2014-10-31 Thread lee
Paul E Condon writes: > information? What happens is basically nothing. I select the B+W > print buffer from the file menu in the Emacs23-lucid window, and... > nothing comes out of my printer, and nothing is added to the jobs > list in CUPS. You might need to set a default printer, or use somet

Re: Need help setting up printing in Jessie

2014-10-27 Thread Brian Nelson
Paul E Condon writes: > I'm running Jessie on an HP Pentium host that's a several years old. > Desktop software is Xfce4 and CUPS from a Debian repository, as is all > software on the box. Printing works for the LibreOffice suite, but not > for Emacs23-lucid, or for plain text files. What do I ne

Need help setting up printing in Jessie

2014-10-27 Thread Paul E Condon
I'm running Jessie on an HP Pentium host that's a several years old. Desktop software is Xfce4 and CUPS from a Debian repository, as is all software on the box. Printing works for the LibreOffice suite, but not for Emacs23-lucid, or for plain text files. What do I need to do to get them configured?

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Dec 2013 at 20:56:01 +, Frank Miles wrote: > idea how that happened, but it's restored now. The weird thing is that > everything looked good in /etc/cups/printers.conf, but looking at the > config via the web interface showed the 'raw' driver. Recreating the /etc/cups/printers.con

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 20:00:02 +0100, Brian wrote: > On Tue 17 Dec 2013 at 17:46:49 +, Frank Miles wrote: > >> Well, spoke too soon. Evince is now causing the printer to emit many pages, >> each with a single line of gibberish - so its control is not yet right. Well >> at least I have reason

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-17 Thread Brian
On Tue 17 Dec 2013 at 17:46:49 +, Frank Miles wrote: > Well, spoke too soon. Evince is now causing the printer to emit many pages, > each with a single line of gibberish - so its control is not yet right. Well > at least I have reason to suspect the cups driver, not some more obscure part >

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:00:01 +0100, Frank Miles wrote: > On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:50:01 +0100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > >> On 12/17/13, Frank Miles wrote: >>> I'm having serious difficulty trying to print PDFs in Jessie. >> >>> Any insights as to where I should look? Is this something that >>> j

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-17 Thread Frank Miles
On Tue, 17 Dec 2013 02:50:01 +0100, Zenaan Harkness wrote: > On 12/17/13, Frank Miles wrote: >> I'm having serious difficulty trying to print PDFs in Jessie. > >> Any insights as to where I should look? Is this something that >> jessie is doing to everyone, or is my configuration strangely mang

Re: Printing in Jessie

2013-12-16 Thread Zenaan Harkness
On 12/17/13, Frank Miles wrote: > I'm having serious difficulty trying to print PDFs in Jessie. > Any insights as to where I should look? Is this something that > jessie is doing to everyone, or is my configuration strangely mangled? Have you tried removing and re-adding the printer again (or s

Printing in Jessie

2013-12-16 Thread Frank Miles
I'm having serious difficulty trying to print PDFs in Jessie. Printing PDFs works from gimp (gutenprint), but evince just causes blank pages. This is all with an old HPLJ5M (postscript) network printer. Similarly I can telnet into the printer and have random keystrokes print in Courier. Taking