Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper, using a printer or a printing press.
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Send DXY-GL command to printer
How to send DXY-GL commands to a plotter? My plotter can draw only lines. Can I send text commands via stty to the printer port?
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Username conflicts on a central printer queue
We have just switched to a centralized print queue. The printer is setup with
lpadmin -p SPScolour -E -D "Sustainable Print Colour" -v lpd://xxx.yyy.com/colour
The IT people are saying my local ...
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printing problems with DDST (aka PLC6) printer RICOH Aficio SP C240DN
I'm having big problems printing on a RICOH Aficio SP C240DN (a color laser printer). Cups/Openprinting doesn't have a driver for exactly this printer. There are near numbers but not 240DN.
It also ...
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Adding printer from Gnome 3 on Debian Wheezy, Firewalld not running
I get an error trying to add a printer on Debian Wheezy that FirewallD is not running. I am trying to add a remote printer. There is no firewall on this computer, iptables blocks nothing, and there is ...
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lpr printing wrong ASCII characters
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04, the printing of plain text files with lpr on my HP LaserJet 2420 printer malfunctions in a very specific way: for each character that is supposed to be printed, the ...
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CUPS - check if print successful (either python or in system)
EDIT: I forgot to make it clear I'm using python and pycups. The code is python but I shouldn't have thought that was enough.
I've dug through the cups documentation a few times and couldn't find ...
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Canon Pixma MG4150 not working on Arch Linux
I’m trying to install a Canon Pixma MG4150 multifunction printer on Arch Linux 3.5.4-1-ARCH x86_64. The device is not working out of the box, I didn’t find anything about this printer on Google for a ...
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Printing Latex source with a2ps
When I try to print out latex source code with
a2ps somefile.tex
I get error messages from egrep like
egrep: Das Ende des angegebenen Intervalls ist nicht gültig
which translates to "the end of ...
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An easier way to print from a live CD than Puppy?
After several failed attempts to burn an Ubuntu CD to live boot from (they wouldn't boot, maybe because my CD burning software wouldn't burn slower than 4X speed?), I've managed to get a boot disc ...
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Ricoh Aficio SP 100su E
After installing a Ricoh Aficio SP 100su E printer (it does scanning as well),
I've tried a tenth of the GDI and PCL (5e/6) generic and Ricoh drivers without any success.
I've learned from Ricoh that ...
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CUPS remote printer entry is stopped locally
My local CUPS daemon on my laptop has an entry for a remote printer on my CUPS server. My local CUPS daemon thinks this printer is stopped, but it's not. The only interface CUPS gives me to manage ...
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How to print several files at the same time using lpr?
I am trying to print a number of files from shell using lpr. I enter something like:
lpr -P PRINTERNAME ./*/dir/file.pdf
but I get "lpr: No file in print request.".
When I use ls as
ls ...
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Mandriva 2007 Cannot setup printer
I tried to use a printer that is shared by a Windows PC. When I try to Mandrive Control Center > Hardware > Set up printer, the window opens but there is no content. Only a window. Seems that ...
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Ricoh Aficio SP C240DN driver
I have seen the driver here, but that is a black/white laser printer.
So the question here is: does it support color?
I'm getting the same printer, and hope, that I can find a solution to this. ...
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How to install a printer that is connected via an USB-to-Parallel-Port adapter?
I'm running Sabayon Linux (x86_64).
$ uname -a
Linux qdoe 3.7.0-sabayon #1 SMP Thu Dec 20 07:12:55 UTC 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
I have a HP ...
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How to add printer ricoh 2018d?
I'm using Linux Mint 13 and got some troubles with installing Ricoh 2018d.
I also have an another printer, "Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet Professional P1102w" and this was piece of cake. I've just do ...
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How do I make “black&white” the default?
When I print something (Firefox 5 but also other apps), the option "color" is always set to "Color (CMYK)". How do I make "monochrome" or "black & white" the default?
This is a Kyocera FS-C5100DN ...
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lp command can’t open samba url
I have a Linux host with Samba installed and a Windows server with some Files.
Samba is set up correctly and works just fine.
I can show pdfs from the Windows server with
evince ...
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Cups configuration does not consider my new PPD driver (Debian Wheezy)
My Brother HL-4040CN is very impredictible when trying to print images or PDFs. Searching around, I found an accurate driver description file at openprinting.org: ...
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How to make a printer which is recognized but not working print
I'm running a Debian 6.0. I connected an HP 1000 J110 to my server which I access via SSH. Listing the USB ports it recognized it. Also I Pasted the PPD on the /etc/cups/ppd/ folder. Is the PPD my PC ...
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Can groff create a ps file with interpreted ANSI escape characters?
This question is inspired by this one on SU. How can I print bold or color using lp and ANSI escape sequences? I know how to display, for example, bold text in the terminal:
$ echo -e ...
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How to specify printer paper size in mm instead of inches?
In eog (Eye of Gnome) 2.30.2, I found no way to specify size unit in mm in Print... and Page Setup dialogs:
So I have to convert these sizes in inches to sizes in mm.
I'm using CUPS as the print ...
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Enable remote printing options with cups-lpd
I am trying to print from SCO OpenServer remotely to a CUPS-LPD daemon running on a Red Hat Linux machine but it is dropping any print options from the print request.
For example:
lp -d ...
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How to force lp from CUPS to print in grayscale?
I want to print an image from a command line:
lp -o scaling=//100// image.jpg
How can I force it to be printed in grayscale?
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Why does the column command not align columns properly?
In another question I asked on how to hide all .pyc files when using ls, Ignacio suggested the following:
This, as I mentioned above, doesn't work precisely, since the output is occasionally ...
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printing .cpp file from command line using emacs
The goal is to print a set of *.cpp files on a network printer, but... in a way that the (color) printer prints the files like they appear in the c++ editor including the colors and highlighting. And ...
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Images won't print in landscape. Ricoh MPC3500
Had a strange quirk with a Ricoh MPC3500 unable to print images in landscape. At first I thought it was just not printing images but after some testing it prints them fine in portrait.
Im using Mint ...
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Shellscript to print a directory tree and files's contents with a nice presentation
I'm trying to write a shellscript which prints a tree-view for a specific directory and it's subdirs to pdf via latex, as well as the titles and contents of all scripts contained within that primary ...
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Panasonic printer refuses to print
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Opensuse because of bloatware (including Unity).
However, I'm not able to make my LAN printer Panasonic KX-MB 2010 work. In Ubuntu I set the printer up using this ...
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View all user's printing jobs from the command line
I'm running Fedora 17, Gnome (3?), and using bash from terminal. Whenever I run lpstat I only get a list of my jobs, but every time I go to retrieve my jobs from the printer, somebody else is ...
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How can I convert raw printer commands back to a postscript or pdf file?
I have a string of raw printer commands that are for my postscript printer saved to a file.
I believe there is a lpr option like -o raw which will read these raw command and send them to the printer.
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CUPS gives 'Unable to open the initial device, quitting' when printing to network printer
I am trying to print over Wi-Fi to an HP Photosmart D110 printer which is successfully recognized by CUPS. But I only get a sheet with the error message Unable to open the initial device, quitting. ...
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What is “Print to File” and can it be used from command line?
When you select "Print to File" in a Gnome print dialog (not cups-pdf):
... what is the actual command that gets executed? (I'm interested in the postscript variant, as on the image)
On the other ...
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How to make dot matrix printer print every line of 'tail -f'
I have a dot matrix printer, an Epson LQ-500.
It works well with CUPS, and I use it to print listings sometimes, text files, etc.
now, I'd like to use it as a logging printer. for that, I need it to ...
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Can (CUPS) ppd files for Mac OS X be used for linux?
I am looking at buying a printer (actually an all-in-one I prefer for the features it provides, but I want to focus on the printer part here) which does not provide linux drivers, but does provide Mac ...
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How to kill a stuck print job under AIX?
0:root@SERVER:/ # uname
AIX
0:root@SERVER:/ # oslevel
6.1.0.0
0:root@SERVER:/ # switch.prt -d
#printsubsystem
AIX
0:root@SERVER:/ # lpstat -oQUEUENAME
Queue Dev Status Job Files ...
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Automatically printing images with added captions
I have a lot of scanned images and images/photos I'm working on with
multiple versions. When I print them (using various programs), all I
get is the image and, often, it's difficult to tell which ...
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Get list of installed printers
Inside of a script I send a certain file to print using the lpr command on an user-selected printer.
The list of the printers, from which the user selects the one to use, I get using the lpstat -a ...
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How do restore printer settings from a backup
I recently re-installed my system from Mint 12 to Mint 14. Pretty much everything is set as before but I had apparently forgotten about the printers.
In order to avoid resetting all the small ...
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Mount printers at /dev/usb and still use CUPS
Due to a new version of CUPS, I suddenly lost the direct path to my printers that was previously available under /dev/usb/lpXXX. I used this to print directly from the command line. echo "test" > ...
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Reccommendations for a wireless print server supported on Linux?
I have found it difficult to research a wireless print server which will be supported on Linux. I use Debian 6 and Ubuntu 10.04 (also Windows 7 64 bit, Vista, and MACOS Snow Leopard). Everyone in my ...
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Is there an alternative to CUPS?
When printing with Linux is there an alternative to using CUPS?
After using it for a couple of weeks printing suddenly stopped working. The 'processing' light would come on and that would be the end. ...
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Printing a file from local computer using printer connected to remote server
On the remote server, I use lp command to print documents. I can connect to this server through SSH.
How can I print a file directly from my local computer using that printer?
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Printing PDF with not embedded TrueType Font (cups / lpr)
I have a PDF in which the TrueType font OCRB is used, however the font is not embedded.
So I tried to install the font on my system (which is by the way a SLES11 SP2), I did the following things:
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Default printing options in KDE 4 dialog
How can I set default printing options, so that they are always pre-populated in the KDE 4 print dialog window (when printing from Ocular for example)?
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Printing maps/cartoons/text saved as a picture/etc
What is the best way to print maps/cartoons/text saved as a picture/etc., so pictures that are not photos? The standard routines seem to blur and soften the printed picture, which is probably ...
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Send print job to printer immediately without queueing, aka increase print performance
I have a ruby/rails web application, one action of which sends PDF files that have been generated by the app to a Xerox 4127 printer on the network. This is accomplished via shelling out and running ...
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Network Printing in Fedora
I´m having problems setting up network printing in Fedora 16. In the printer setup box it says FirewallD is not running and gives a list of protocols that need to be enabled. I cannot find a FirewallD ...
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How to merge 2 PDF files with interleaving pages order?
I've got a double-side-printed multipage document to scan with a linear bulk scanner. So, as the result I get 2 PDF files: one containing all odd pages and the second containing all even pages. I need ...
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Get directory that script was called from
I have a script doSmth in /usr/bin. Is it possible to print the directory the script was called from is printed out by the script?
So If I call doSmth from /home/me the output will be /home/me.
