Printing headache

m4ng0 ulist at gs1.ubuntuforums.org
Mon Feb 28 19:18:39 UTC 2005


toyfactory Wrote: 
> 
> Printing from Gimp
> 
> I load up a picture I want to print and go File, Print... My printer
> appears on the Printer Name drop down menu, great.  PostScript Level
> 2 seems to be the default Printer Model but never mind, I'll try it.
> It doesn't work.  The printer prints one page which says something
> like "%!PS-Adobe-3. %%BoundingBox Yadda yadda yadda" and then starts
> spitting out blank pages until I turn the printer off.  So I try the
> Setup Printer... button.  I can't find my printer there so what
> should I do?  The print command looks like this: lp -s -dDeskJet-
> 5650 -oraw and the PPD file I downloaded earlier looks like this:
> /home/nick/HP-DeskJet_5650-hpijs.ppd
> 

Remove:
-oraw
from the print command. That should work for The Gimp.


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m4ng0




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