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sean <tech.junk@×××××××.net> posted 452D99D4.4030902@×××××××.net, |
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excerpted below, on Wed, 11 Oct 2006 21:26:44 -0400: |
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> The printer is setup fine, CUPS is running, and a great test page is |
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> produced. |
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> The problem is from Gimp, all other apps seems fine. What I have found |
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> is that I always have to reselect and save the printer settings. |
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> I also have to print the same item twice. |
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> On first time print it pulls the paper in, and just runs the paper |
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> through, then pulls another sheet in and just stops. Checking the que, |
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> it shows no jobs. |
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> Choose print again, and it then prints the picture. |
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For historical reasons (there wasn't a suitably universal solution at the |
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time), GIMP has its own print driver setup. However, that's a good thing |
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as for some printers the GIMP print driver is far better than the |
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foomatic solution, and it's possible to configure the system in general to |
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use it. |
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I don't use the GIMP personally, however (nothing against it, it's great |
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it's available, just that simpler interfaces like that of kpaint do what I |
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need with far less learning, and thus far less frustration in the mean |
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time, on my part), and the last printer I had worked well with KDE > CUPS |
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> foomatic, so that's about all I know about the gimpprint stuff. |
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BTW, that printer was the only one I've run on Linux, an HP 832c ink jet, |
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well supported but not suitable for use once every six months or so, |
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by which time the ink cartridges have plugged up. Those are $30 to replace |
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HP, $10 generic, so while it was a relative ink miser for active use, |
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$10-30 every six months to print a couple pages wasn't a satisfactory |
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solution. I expect I'll go laser printer next, tho I've not decided |
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whether to just get a cheap black-on-white-only or go color, which even |
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tho it's not as good quality as inkjet color (which isn't as good quality |
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as dye-sub), /would/ be about the same quality as my old inkjet was, given |
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its age. |
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At least in the inkjet range, for Linux, Epson or HP are by far the best |
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supported. Perverting Cannon's slogan, on Linux, it's more "No you |
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Cannon(t)", tho it's better supported than the likes of Lex- (aka |
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shit)mark. I've not taken the time to research lasers as I will before I |
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actually buy, yet. |
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Meanwhile, I have alternatives such as simply not printing, saving and |
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reading on the computer instead (my usual), mailing it to work to print |
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and pick up if it's text or installing the software and hooking up the |
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modem again to fax it if line-drawing will work (they have a Brother lazer |
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based fax/printer/copier), or printing to text/image/pdf as appropriate |
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and transferring it to floppy/CD and taking it to a commercial printer if |
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desired. All of those options are lower cost and about the same hassle as |
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the $10-30 every few months for a new cartridge every time I decide to |
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print a few pages, that I /was/ dealing with, so it works for me. |
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Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. |
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"Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- |
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and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman |
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