printer hell

[Jeramy Rutley]

Which program are you using to print with?

I found with my HP PSC 1210 that GIMP was completely unable to print,
but OpenOffice and gedit worked fine.  I'm using gtklp to print photos
now.


On Tue, 16 Nov 2004 20:07:24 +0000, Baza <baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk> wrote:
> 
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> 
> 
> > Ubuntu's printer setup isn't comprehensive 'out of the box'.
> >
> > I had to add the gimpprint drivers to solve the problem.  Not just the
> > gimpprint stuff with the
> > initial distribution, but also the cups versions - cupsys-drivers-gimpprint
> > and
> > cupsys-drivers-gimpprint-data.  (These are unsupported packages from
> > Universe.)
> >
> > With them installed, I was able to find the driver version which makes the
> > printer work excellently.
> >
> > Hope this may help.
> >
> > Neil
> >
> 
> OK, done that still no joy. I hope this is not a, 'show stopper', as I
> really need to be able to print, and I don't want to dump Ubuntu in favour
> of Suse 9.1
> 
> Barry
> 
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