[Xprint] No printing from ... Pls see ANNOTATIONS to your helpful suggestions & queries

[Godfrey Harrison]

Drew Parsons wrote:

>On Mon, 2005-08-29 at 19:35 +0800, Godfrey Harrison wrote:
>  
>
>>What do I need to do to get prints of my e-mails and from printer 
>>friendly versions of web-pages &, even, web pages?
>>
>>I am running Mozilla & Thunderbird, under Debian 3.1 Sarge, and can't 
>>print anything from them.  I can print using Open Office, gedit, and 
>>Abiword and Evolution.
>> Mozilla & Thunderbird work fine EXCEPT no printing!
>>
>>I can choose from a list of possible printing possibilities
>>The lp-64 one connects to my Lexmark E210 printer - its comes to life & 
>>its green lights blinks a time or two but nothing else happens. 
>>    
>>
>
>Check Xprint is in general working by printing to file (or to pdf).
>
    ^^^ IT PRINTS TO FILE FINE; I CAN OPEN & READ THE .ps
             FILES, FOR EXAMPLE USING THE FILE BROWSER BUT CAN'T
             AFTER THAT PRINT THEM

> You
>could also try printing the file from the command line while you're at
>it using lpr (can you normally print postscript files from the command
>line? IT SEEMS NOT! SO NO SURPRISE THE TRIAL THE PREVIOUS SENTENCE SUGGESTS FAILS.
>

> ).   
>
>I gather you tried both the Xprint printers and the default mozilla
>printers.  The Xprint ones have the :64 suffix and the default mozilla
>ones have the Postscript/ prefix.  WHAT THE PREVIOUS SENTENCE SAYS 
>
& WHAT I SEE - SAY, WHEN STARTING A PRINT - AGREE

>You might try updating the PPD file (it goes in /usr/share/cups/model)
>from the vendor or from www.linuxprinting.org. I'LL TRY THIS. (If you're using LPRng I'M NOT USING LPRng
>not CUPS then you could see if CUPS works more smoothly instead).
>
>Try firefox rather than mozilla (probably won't help though, if
>thunderbird isn't working either).  I MAY TRY FIREFOX (?FLY) 
>
>There's a slim chance there might be information in /var/log/syslog (or
>lpr.log), but I expect not.  THERE WERE SOME MESSAGES SAYING XPRT (?)
>  
>
SOMETHING LIKE THAT ) MAYBE "XPRT64" ? - WAS CONNECTED
OR DISCONNECTED TO LOCAL HOST; NOTHING ELSE I SAW.

>Hope that might help. I'M LEARNING A BIT BUT NOT PRINTING ANYMORE *YET*
>
>Drew
>  
>
                           THANKS
                                            GODFREY


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