Re: [kde-linux] Switching to KDE-4.2: Problem #1: I can't print to my printer

Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 09 February 2009 23:54:53 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
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Not using anything unusual. I use LPR and GhostSctipt. Although
KDE-3stopped supporting lpq, the printing still worked. And it
still works perfectly in OO.o. The only setup for OO.o was to
provide a real PPD file (not a CUPS or FooMatic one).

I would have thought that pointing the CUPS setup to that same .ppd
would have worked. Did you try that?

No, because I don't have a CUPS setup.

But doesn't CUPS require a modified PPD file?

Not as far as I know. I've never heard of anyone having to provide a
different driver for OOo and CUPS printing.

I don't think that I was clear. Yes, OO.o will probably work with a
CUPS or FooMatic modified PPD file although it comes with its own
collection of PPD files. However, I provided an unmodified one since I
don't have CUPS or FooMatic installed.

The driver issue is with my old line printer which is an Epson
LQ1000.

Yes, looking at the database at linuxprinting.org it does seem that
there is not a specific driver for that model.

There is a GhostScript device available: "epson" which works correctly.

I should probably update the page since the information on the old
linuxprinting.org site seems to have been lost.

However, the Omni driver
http://www.openprinting.org/show_driver.cgi?driver=omni&fromprinter=Epson-
LQ-1010 is said to support several LQ-10?0 models, so may well be an
option for you, if the .ppd you already have doesn't work. I'd try
the one that works in OOo first.

Since the GhostScript device works there is no need for that.

As I said previously, I want to use the GhostScript RIP device
(commonly, and incorrectly, called a driver).

:-) I know you're trying to be precise, but it's not worth getting
too technical here :-) We all know this as 'a driver' :-)

There is some need for clarity here since PPD files are also being
called drivers -- they are configuration files. It isn't a technical
issue but a semantics issue. If we call several different things
'driver' it can only lead to confusion.

However, the big problem is that I was not able to print from
KWrite without hacking the code, and I don't think that that is
dependent on the printer which I was trying to use.

Not being a developer, I could be way off-beam, but I suspect that
that's because the driver you have isn't absolutely right for the
model.

The GhostScript device "epson" is correct for any epson 9 or 24 pin dot
matrix printer since they all use the same printer control codes.

Models that began before hardware manufacturers even started
to become linux-aware can be quite difficult to set up, but often are
totally reliable if you can actually get there.

Since the Epson dot matrix printers are totally documented, that isn't a
problem.

IAC, we seem to have wandered off of the issue. My printer prints fine
form Okular-0.8 in KDE-4.2 -- the problem is not with the printer
driver. The problem is that printing doesn't work with KWrite. I click
"Print" and nothing happens -- I don't even see an error message. I
hacked the code and it works fine. The problem is that I hacked the
KATE code, could find no library to hack, and that probably means that
other apps won't work either. I tried Konqueror and it wouldn't print a
web page.

It has been suggested to me that this is a Qt bug. So, I updated
Qt-COPY and am trying to build TRUNK against it.

--
JRT
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