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From: Peter Chant on 16 Nov 2009 03:04 Res wrote: >> The proper ppd file won't help with the fact that Cups won't work with >> Kmail. > Replying the Res's post as John hits my kill filter for some reason. Kmail works fine here with cups with no special effort. In what way does it not work? -- http://www.petezilla.co.uk
From: Joost Kremers on 16 Nov 2009 07:25 Dan C wrote: > Use CUPS. Install the proper PPD file for your printer. Done. not necessarily. my printer (samsung ml-2510) doesn't work with the ppd file cups suggests. i have to install some additional piece of software (splix) to get it to work with cups. -- Joost Kremers joostkremers(a)yahoo.com Selbst in die Unterwelt dringt durch Spalten Licht EN:SiS(9)
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From: Lew Pitcher on 16 Nov 2009 11:06 On November 15, 2009 18:52, in alt.os.linux.slackware, john(a)wexfordpress.com (john(a)wexfordpress.com) wrote: > When I changed to Slack 13 I first installed Cups. However several > programs I use regularly, including Kmail, did not communicate > properly with Cups. I don't know about Slackware 13 (which uses the much-rewritten KDE 4), but in Slackware 12.* with KDE 3, kmail works properly with CUPS. I can't see the KDE development team (or Pat V, for that matter) releasing software that doesn't work at it's basic functionality; are you sure that you've properly configured cups and kmail? > So a went back to lprng. > > This caused a further problem. I have two printers, both parallel port > type, that work through > an A/B switch. Ewe! 2ndary printer port cards only cost about $10. Buy one and install it. /Forget/ the A/B switch; it only confuses everything. > The Ricoh printer, a Postscript 3 compatible laser, is not a problem. But > The Epson Stylus Color 880 ink jet needs a special driver. I turned > to apsfilter to configure this printer. The current driver pips/sc880 > doesn't work and the Apsfilter project seems to be moribund. There are > no posts in the archives there since 2004. Which explains why Slackware deprecates apsfilter. > I need a way to configure something, Cups or Lprng or a player to be > named later, so that I can use both printers and use them with all or > most all of my programs. As I said, install a printer port card ($10) and lose the A/B switch. That'll give you /both/ printers available all the time. Properly install CUPS (remove lprng, and don't reinstall it), and get the proper PPD files for your two printers. A generic postscript PPD should work for the Ricoh printer, and GIMP-PRINT will do the task for the Epson Stylus Color 880 (see http://www.openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_Color_880) Ensure that your KDE environment is set up properly. Check the KDE printer configuration and management tool for the proper setup. Make sure that your user permissions are set properly (i.e. both printers are owned by the 'lp' group). That should be it. -- Lew Pitcher Master Codewright & JOAT-in-training | Registered Linux User #112576 Me: http://pitcher.digitalfreehold.ca/ | Just Linux: http://justlinux.ca/ ---------- Slackware - Because I know what I'm doing. ------
From: Aaron W. Hsu on 16 Nov 2009 13:53
Lew Pitcher <lewpitcher(a)lewpitcher.ca> writes: >The drivers just don't exist, and never will exist, so you are >kicking a dead horse. >Always have a windows standalone, or a dual boot system, because the >printer will ALWAYS work automagically on a windows installation. Oh please. What utter nonsense. Aaron W. Hsu |