(FC6+Gnome) Printing disabled in Evince and OOo
Simon Slater
pyevet at aapt.net.au
Sun Oct 7 06:05:08 UTC 2007
On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 20:26 +0200, Frode Petersen wrote:
> yonas Abraham wrote:
> > There were a know bug with the
> > same symptom, if the printer is set as raw printer in FC6. If so
> > change to the correct PPD file or make the printer a postscript
> > printer.
> > what type of printer is it, make model connection type, how you
> > created the queue?
>
> I'm not shure of what you mean by 'raw printer'. Is it specific to
> postscript setups?
>
> The printer is a HP LaserJet 6L, printing through CUPS, normally with
> the Gutenprint driver, but I also have setups defined with hpijs and
> (for testing) ljet4 drivers. (The last two from the foomatic package.)
> Test pages print as they should.
>
> They were set up through the Fedora menu/System/Administration/Printers
> program (I'm not shure of the correct english name for the utility, but
> it has a Red Hat owned copyright, written by Florian Festi, Tim Waugh)
>
> The strange thing is that this setup has worked for months and just
> recently stopped working. I am not aware of any changes to drivers or
> sybsystem, and I have sole access to admin utils.
>
> That is, while writing this I checked for any .rpmnew files lying
> around, and found two printing related.
> (/usr/share/config/kdeprintrc.rpmnew and
> /usr/share/config/ui/kprintpreviewui.rc.rpmnew) I think these have to do
> with KDE, and as I use Gnome they shouldn't be the cause of the problem.
> I'll check it out anyway just in case.
>
> I noticed another oddity. On the print dialog's second page where the
> page setup is specified, you can specify pages per sheet, duplex, paper
> type, paper source and output tray. These are all greyed out and marked
> as 'not accessible' or 'not available' (I use a different localisation.)
>
> Thanks for the tip, Yonas. There seems to be a bit more road ahead
> before arriving at a solution, but every step helps in getting there.
>
> Frode
>
FWIW I had the same problem of print button greyed out & could only
print to file. Fiddled for a couple of hours until I glanced at the hub
to see the link light was out. Put the plug back in and all was well.
--
Regards
Simon
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