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On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 7:53 PM, walt <w41ter@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On 02/23/2010 06:23 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: |
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>> Hi, |
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>> I'm looking around in vain for info on why some apps (Open Office |
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>> apps for instance) see printers while other apps (Evolution and |
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>> Firefox for instance) do not. Apps that don't work seem to offer print |
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>> to file and print to LPR. On the other hand Open Office provides only |
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>> the obscenely ugly CUPS printer name |
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>> "HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5". |
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> Ugly? I think it's quite fetching, really. Are you sure you're a real |
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> computer nerd? |
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> I have an HP LaserJet 3015 that works with everything in my gnome DE, |
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> but IIRC I struggled until I discovered the net-print/hplip package, |
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> which is the opensource driver supplied by HP. It does everything |
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> including faxing, printing, and high-res color scanning all from my |
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> HP multi-function printer. |
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> Does your dad's machine have that package installed and configured? |
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Yes, version 3.9.12-r1 is installed but I'm not totally sure I'm using |
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the driver it supplied. |
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gandalf ~ # emerge -pv hplip |
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These are the packages that would be merged, in order: |
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Calculating dependencies... done! |
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[ebuild R ] net-print/hplip-3.9.12-r1 USE="gtk hpcups libnotify |
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qt4 -doc -fax -hpijs -minimal -new-hpcups -parport -policykit -scanner |
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-snmp -static-ppds -udev-acl" 0 kB |
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Total: 1 package (1 reinstall), Size of downloads: 0 kB |
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* IMPORTANT: 1 news items need reading for repository 'gentoo'. |
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* Use eselect news to read news items. |
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gandalf ~ # |
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# Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.3.11 |
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# Written by cupsd on 2010-02-23 11:32 |
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<Printer HP_LaserJet_M1522nf_MFP_192.168.1.5> |
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Info HP LaserJet M1522nf MFP |
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Location Local Printer |
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DeviceURI socket://192.168.1.5 |
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State Idle |
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StateTime 1266953458 |
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Accepting Yes |
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Shared Yes |
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JobSheets none none |
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QuotaPeriod 0 |
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PageLimit 0 |
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KLimit 0 |
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OpPolicy default |
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ErrorPolicy stop-printer |
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</Printer> |
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Again, I figured it was working because Open Office finds it without |
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any trouble, but his Gnome account doesn't. (Nor does mine actually - |
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I cannot print from Firefox in my account either.) |
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Thanks, |
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Mark |
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