[vox-tech] Sarge Printing Problem

[Jonathan Stickel]

There are two things that should be simple and standardized in linux, 
but definitely are not:  sound and printing!  Both are getting better if 
you know what to do...

 From my experience, cups is the way to go for printing.  I highly 
recommend the web interface for configuring, testing, and 
troubleshooting.  There are other guis available for running cups, but 
they don't always work correctly.  The web interface is often the same 
across most distros and usually works.  So if you haven't already, put 
localhost:631 in your browser's location bar.  If the cups daemon is 
running, you should get a menu to start working CUPS.  If you have a 
printer correctly installed, clicking on the "print test page" for that 
printer should give you a nice CUPS test page.

Jonathan


Robert G. Scofield wrote:
> I've done a Sarge net install three times now, and it's quite an experience.  
> I get a different set of packages even when I choose the same stuff to 
> download.  I don't have sound and I can't print.  But I've got some stuff to 
> read on sound, and will try to take care of that on my own.  But the printing 
> is a mystery.
> 
> I can't print from the GUI (Gnome in this case.)  At first I could print from 
> the command line using the command "lpr."  But after downloading the Cups 
> packages "lpr" would not work.  What would work from the command line was 
> "lpr -l."
> 
> Later nothing would print at all from the command line or GUI.  Then still 
> ater when I would print from the GUI I'd get this:  "%!PS-Adobe-3.0 
> %%BoundingBox:  (attend)  %%Creator:  OpenOffice."  That message would be 
> followed by either a bunch of gibberish followed by blank pages, or just by 
> the blank pages.
> 
> Now, for some reason, I am unable to print anything.  I can't print from the 
> command line or the GUI.  I've also downloaded all the foomatic packages I 
> can find.
> 
> So does anybody have any ideas as to what I might do? 
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Bob
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