Printing

joeca12 · 12-11-2002, 10:15 AM

Ok.. I am able to print test pages fine. lpd is started. When I try and print from applications I have no luck. I am trying to print my smb.conf files from gedit. Why won't this print.

Thanks

irish_rover · 12-11-2002, 10:23 AM

Hmmm....for now you can print your smb.conf file from the command line? Like so: lpr smb.conf

joeca12 · 12-11-2002, 12:56 PM

Thanks that worked. Any one have clues to why this won't print from the GUI.

joeca12 · 12-11-2002, 01:49 PM

Working. The only program I can't print from is gedit.

koboni · 12-11-2002, 05:10 PM

I am experiencing the same problem with RedHat 8.0. I can print from the command line and I can print test pages but I can not print from any application. The printers that I have installed do not show up in the printer list in any application although lpd is indicated as waiting in the ps aux list. Any ideas?

irish_rover · 12-11-2002, 06:19 PM

What kind of printers are you using? Is there more than one driver available for that printer? For example I have a cheap-o Lexmark 3200, there are two drivers available for that particular model...if I pick "driver a" it works fine, but if I try "driver b" forget it.

koboni · 12-11-2002, 06:38 PM

Lexmark T612 and HP Laserjet 4600dn. They are both queued through a Novell server but I could try jetdirect. Drivers, good point. I'll try to update the drivers for the Lexmark. Thanks

blinux1 · 12-11-2002, 07:21 PM

You might want to test some other filters used in GEdit. Just a thought...