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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Configuring networked printer to archive print jobs
Our existing infrastructure has a shared printer running on a windows machine.
It may be upgraded to a real network tcp/ip based printer in the near future.
How can I make it automatically keep a ...
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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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Which GNOME themes are suitable for black and white printing?
I need to place some screenshots of GNOME applications, such as the file manager, in a book. The book will be printed in black and white, and, although shades of gray are okay, it is best that I avoid ...
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Any way for Unix to ignore lpoptions and let Java do it's job?
I'm using the javax.print API to print a Jasper Report on Debian Linux. For some reason the saved lpoptions (CUPS settings) always override settings chosen on the Java Print dialog. At this point the ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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How can I configure Wine's default paper settings?
I'm having trouble with the locale settings in my Microsoft Office Wine bottle/prefix. When I created it, I had followed the Gentoo Localization Guide's suggestion to not set LC_ALL. However, when I ...
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printing to “One Single CUPS Server” can not find queues if 'ServerName' is a CNAME
Running "OpenSuSE 11.4" with "cups-client-1.4.6-6.1.i586" installed, I try to use one single CUPS-server to do all my printing jobs / to manage my queues.
In YaST -> printer I've selected
[x] Do ...
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Printing failure at a network printer in linux
I added a network printer to my network by the RedHat Enterprise workstation 6 linux GUI. It seemed that the printer setting did find the network printer. However, whenever I tried to print, the job ...
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General problem solving steps when print jobs hang in AIX?
What should I do if jobs are getting stuck in the print queue even after restarting spooling?
$ stopsrc -g spooler
$ startsrc -g spooler
$ lpstat -oQUEUENAME | wc -l; sleep 30; lpstat -oQUEUENAME | ...
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Printing to a SAMBA-share HP: Multiple copies appear
I have a Windows machine (W7.Ultimate) with a shared HP LaserJet CP1215. I have set this up via SAMBA as a shared printer on my laptop, running Fedora Core 15, using Foomatic/foo2hp.
My problem ...
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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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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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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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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 failure in Linux Mint 13
I installed Mint 13, 64-bit, Cinnamon, and have a Canon ImageClass MF4150 printer. I retrieved and installed the drivers. I added the printer and tried to print a test page. The message said ...
