Printing headache

[Norman Silverstone]

On Mon, 2005-02-28 at 14:18 -0500, m4ng0 wrote:
> 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.
> 
> 
> -- 
> m4ng0

How odd, I have just tried to print from The Gimp and the printer spewed
out a pile of blank sheets of paper. Without using the terminal how do I
correct the problem?

Norman
>