[ale] CUPS & Open Office

[Jim]

I finally got it working by using "Generic Printer" and the standard KDE print 
command "kprinter --stdin". Now it works beautifully. Fortunately, it's an 
Epson and the drivers are all open and available.

On Tuesday 28 January 2003 09:22 pm, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> I think it might be easier to set up the OpenOffice printer as just a
> generic printer. Then in the next window enter the exact command line
> you would use to print a postscript file except for the file name part.
> It's not a very sophisticated print system.
>
> Example:
>
> I have an HP Business Inkjet 2200. It is on my wife's machine (merlin).
> My box (archimedes) has a print que named HP that is a remote que
> pointing to the HP que on merlin. I am using lpr-ng so my CLI for
> printing a postscript file is lpr -PHP. That's what I entered into OO
> and it work great.
>
> On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:36, Jim wrote:
> > On Tuesday 28 January 2003 07:05 pm, Jim wrote:
> > > In some other posts recently, somebody insisted setting up a printer
> > > for Open Office was easy with CUPS. Remind me of how easy it is. I have
> > > a printer set up and working fine with CUPS. In Open Office, I use
> > > spadmin to add a new printer. I import the ppd file that CUPS is using
> > > and tell Open Office to use that printer. I go to print a test page and
> > > nothing happens. I look at print admin in the CUPS interface and no job
> > > exists. What now?
> >
> > So far, this is what I see as command line output if I try to print a
> > test page using spadmin:
> >
> > connected to 'localhost'
> >  requesting printer EPSC62 at localhost
> >  job 'rebus at localhost+938' transfer to EPSC62 at localhost failed
> >   error 'NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL'
> >   sending str '^BEPSC62' to EPSC62 at localhost
> >  error msg: 'spool queue for 'epsc62' does not exist on server
> > localhost.localdomain'
> >  error msg: '   non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f''
> >
> > Of course, hte printer does exist and it works fine if I print from a KDE
> > app or use "kprinter -stdin". But that command fails if Itry to use if
> > within OpenOffice. Any ideas?
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