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jpeters

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Posted: Dec. 31 2007,00:07

Quote (john.martzouco @ Dec. 30 2007,18:53)

Quote (jpeters @ Dec. 30 2007,17:57)

Beaver, OO, etc.,

What is OO please?

Thanks.

Open Office; it worked by default after setting up with apsfilter.

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Posted: Dec. 31 2007,10:38

I seem to recall you mentioned you were using a hp all-in-one printer. If so, then you can use the command "hp-info" to list plenty of details about your printer including the full hp uri and the cups printer name. There are also a bunch of other useful "hp-xxx" commands you can find in /opt/hplip/bin (or maybe ../sbin).

I'm not in front of my dsl desktop at the moment, but I thought the info file mentioned how to print from firefox, openoffice, etc?

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Posted: Dec. 31 2007,15:13

Quote (Juanito @ Dec. 31 2007,05:38)

I'm not in front of my dsl desktop at the moment, but I thought the info file mentioned how to print from firefox, openoffice, etc?

Firefox has it's own printer defaults set in "about:config" The defaults that work for ted, bash, OO, etc., don't work with FF (at least they haven't with my online samba setup through apsfilter).

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Posted: Dec. 31 2007,15:42

Another option for consideration... Use print to file.
Many times, I just want to print something and I don't have my printer online, or daemon started, or paper loaded, etc, etc. I just don't want to be interrupted from what I am doing.

So now with my 4.x setup, I always print to file. Then when I am ready to print. I just drag-n-drop my print files over my printer icon and do my printing in batches.

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Posted: Dec. 31 2007,15:42

Thanks for the help gents, I've made progress.

The command

Code Sample

lpoptions -d printer-name

mentioned in the linked page only has to be executed once. I found a Set As Default button on the CUPS printer page (http://localhost:631/printers/) and it executed the command for me... no console needed for that one.

To make GIMP 1.2 print correctly after this, the -o raw printing option needs to be changed to -o raster in GIMP's printing dialog page.

I haven't installed Open Office yet, will soon enough.

@Juanito,

I think I'd need to append the hp path to be able to use any of those hp-xxx commands. I tried hp-info while pwd in it's directory, but it coughed up a polite error message about missing bits.

Also, it would be super helpful if the http://localhost:631 page were there. If only it hosted links to the sub-pages (admin, printers, jobs etc), it would make managing the printers a lot easier. I'll eventually write one up for myself, if you like, I can post it.

Much thanks,
John

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