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Re: [tlug] Printer Not Responding



Evan,
I also updated to dapper and noticed that this time, the
gnome-cups-manager in the "menu system -> administration -> printing"
doesn't crash anymore.
Did you try to add your printer with it?

Thanks for the tip. Using the Gnome CUPS manager has met with some success!

I just can't quite say it's a done deal yet.

You see, I added the printer using the Gnome CUPS manager and then tried to print a test page. I was thrilled to see it start printing. And then depressed to see it stop printing... half way through the page.

I waited to see if eventually the page would finish, but after a quarter of an hour I figured it had stalled. So I reset the printer, turned it off and on and waited a bit, then tried another test page. It halted in the exact same place. Just a little less than exactly half way.

I tried printing in other applications. From Thunderbird I could print an email, and from OpenOffice I could print at a page of text.

From PDF Viewer and XPDF I could not print anything. With FireFox, I tried printing a page that had some images on it, and it choked half way through the first page.

My amateur guess as to what the difference with these things is that things that are just text seem to print, graphics seem to choke.

Am I missing some obvious package or driver or something that facilitates graphics?

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Dave M G


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