[SWLUG] I mucked up printing

Stephanos stephanos at writeme.com
Thu Feb 24 20:26:50 UTC 2005


Dear Dick and others

Do you mean delete the printer  from CUPs and make a new one ?  If so I 
know how to do that

Wait to hear

Stephen


Dick Bain wrote:

> Stephanos wrote:
>
>>
>> I was able to print from every application using the kprinter --stdin 
>> command.  The only problem was Mozilla.  When I printed out an e-mail 
>> words were missing from the end of each line.  I got some tech 
>> support from Mandrake Expert, to try xpp in the Print Command of 
>> Mozilla.  I did but there was no improvement.  While in Mozilla I 
>> decided to put back kprinter --stdin into the Print Command box.
>>
>> Now printing from any application using kprinter does not work.  I 
>> get an error message:
>> "Error while reading filter description for true (true was in bold). 
>> Empty command line received".
>>
> 8<
>
> I have found through experience that mandrake tends to break both 
> printing occassionaly, I have grown used to deleting the printer and 
> setting it up afresh once every two or three weeks.
> I have not a clue why this happens but when you say Mozilla and probs 
> since I installed firefox the printer has been behaving rather well!
> oo er missus
> Dick ;-)
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