[vox-tech] Gentoo printer font problem

[Jonathan Stickel]

Bruce Wolk wrote:
> Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> 
>> Bruce Wolk wrote:
>>
>>> Rod Roark wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Friday 21 May 2004 09:27 pm, Bruce Wolk wrote:
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>>>>> Thunderbird.  But I am stumped trying to get decent printing.  I 
>>>>> have an hp laserjet 1300 and have set up cups and foomatic.  The 
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>>
>> Don't give up on Gentoo yet!  Printing from KDE apps sends the job 
>> through "kprinter".  At the bottom of the kprinter window is a 
>> selection for "print system currently used".  Make sure that cups is 
>> selected.  I remember that something else, like lpr, was the default.  
>> If this doesn't work, let me know.  I can think of other things to 
>> troubleshoot, one at a time.
>>
>> BTW:  you can use the kprinter system for printing in non-KDE apps, 
>> like acroread and mozilla.  For the print command in the appropriate 
>> gui window, enter "kprinter".
>>
> cups is definitely selected. What is odd is that Kate prints out fine, 
> but the Kword fonts are uniformly awful.
> 
> Gentoo has been great except for this one glitch, so I am not giving up 
> yet, especially since openoffice works just fine.
> 

Hmm... looking up your printer on linuxprinting.org 
(http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1300), 
I see this note:

"User Notes
Printer works as designed.
The foomatic ppd file does not work, use the NT ppd file in CUPS.
It can be found on the cd that comes with the printer.
The file is called "hp1300nt.ppd" and there should be multiple ones for
each translation. Works perfectly, just copy it to /usr/share/cups/model/
to use it with CUPS."