Nightmare printing to Windows printers

[Charles E "RIck" Taylor IV]

On Mon, 2005-12-05 at 11:07 -0800, Lee H. wrote:

> 2.  Samsung ML-1440, USB, driver=gdi, set to default.  Ubuntu can use it
> and I can print out all the test pages I want, but I can't print from
> applications, e.g:  I can create a document in Open Office and hit print
> but absolutely nothing happens.

Not sure about your Open Office problem, but if you are getting garbled
graphics from your Samsung gdi printer (less noticeable on the test
page, but you'll see it almost immediately if you try to print out large
graphics from other applications), check out this bug:

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=18983

Just putting this out there, since I suspect that this bug will hit you
once you get your printer sharing configured.

(I use a shared Samsung laser printer (a ML-1430), but it's shared from
a Fedora Core server.  I've not ever connected it directly to my Ubuntu
laptops.)

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