Folks, every now and then I get a brain stall trying to setup something,
here's today's...

I have a slak 10 box/kde, which works very nicely. Printing has always been
a mystery to me with Linux, and I only use slak in the house (laptop has
Lindows for playing on airplanes and annoying MS fans).

But...

Any suggestions on getting my slak 10/kde box talking to my HP6110 USB
printer?

I can get the laptop to do it, using Lindows/Debian. But that does me no
good here in the house.

Printe manager in KDE doesn't seem to have a "add printer" type function, or
am I overlooking something there?

Thanks, y'all, for any advice on this matter.

George C
Awstin, TX

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GeorgeC wrote:
| Folks, every now and then I get a brain stall trying to setup something,
| here's today's...
|
| I have a slak 10 box/kde, which works very nicely. Printing has always
been
| a mystery to me with Linux, and I only use slak in the house (laptop has
| Lindows for playing on airplanes and annoying MS fans).
|
| But...
|
| Any suggestions on getting my slak 10/kde box talking to my HP6110 USB
| printer?
|
| I can get the laptop to do it, using Lindows/Debian. But that does me no
| good here in the house.
|
| Printe manager in KDE doesn't seem to have a "add printer" type
function, or
| am I overlooking something there?
|
| Thanks, y'all, for any advice on this matter.
|
| George C
| Awstin, TX
|
You should be able to use kprinter to add printers. It has a little
button with a wand on it that will launch the wizard. However, have you
tried cups? If that's what you use, then you can just fire up your
favorite web browser and point it to http://localhost:631 to find a very
intuitive interface which will walk you through the process of adding a
printer.



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GeorgeC wrote:

> Folks, every now and then I get a brain stall trying to setup something,
> here's today's...
>
> I have a slak 10 box/kde, which works very nicely. Printing has always been
> a mystery to me with Linux, and I only use slak in the house (laptop has
> Lindows for playing on airplanes and annoying MS fans).
>
> But...
>
> Any suggestions on getting my slak 10/kde box talking to my HP6110 USB
> printer?
>
> I can get the laptop to do it, using Lindows/Debian. But that does me no
> good here in the house.
>
> Printe manager in KDE doesn't seem to have a "add printer" type function, or
> am I overlooking something there?
>

Try doing a right-click in the "white box" where the printers are listed in
the KDE print manager.

Also, are you sure that you didn't install BOTH cups AND lprng? That's the
default and it can cause neither to work. I'd uninstall BOTH (removepkg) and
then reinstall cups. Then either use the kdeprint manager or the web
interface of http://localhost:631 to add it.

OH, make sure that you have the driver for the HP printer. On

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_pr...OfficeJet_6110

it shows that it uses the hpijs driver which is (should be) installed with
cups. Do:
al@xxxxr:~$ locate hpijs |grep 6110

and you should get:
/usr/share/ppd/HP/HP-OfficeJet_6110-hpijs.ppd.gz

If you don't, you got problems and it will take a more experienced Slacker to
bail your ass out.

Let us know how it goes and I'm sure we can get you going on this quickly.

Al C.




> Thanks, y'all, for any advice on this matter.
>
> George C
> Awstin, TX

On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 20:57:55 GMT, GeorgeC <spamdump@dyb.com> wrote:
> Any suggestions on getting my slak 10/kde box talking to my HP6110 USB
> printer?

I have an HP DeskJet 6122 connected by USB to one of my Slackware
machines. I'm using the Slackware packages for CUPS & hpijs. You'll
need 'usblp' support either build into the kernel or the module loaded.

When they're installed, you can go to <URL:http//localhost:631/> and
add your printer. <URL:http://www.linuxprinting.org/> will probably
have something useful to add for your printer.


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On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 16:13:38 -0600, quip wrote:
>
> GeorgeC wrote:
>| Folks, every now and then I get a brain stall trying to setup something,
>| here's today's...
>|
>| I have a slak 10 box/kde, which works very nicely. Printing has always
> been
>| a mystery to me with Linux, and I only use slak in the house (laptop has
>| Lindows for playing on airplanes and annoying MS fans).
>|
>| But...
>|
>| Any suggestions on getting my slak 10/kde box talking to my HP6110 USB
>| printer?
>|
>| I can get the laptop to do it, using Lindows/Debian. But that does me no
>| good here in the house.
>|
>| Printe manager in KDE doesn't seem to have a "add printer" type
> function, or
>| am I overlooking something there?
>|
>| Thanks, y'all, for any advice on this matter.
>|
>| George C
>| Awstin, TX
>|
> You should be able to use kprinter to add printers. It has a little
> button with a wand on it that will launch the wizard. However, have you
> tried cups? If that's what you use, then you can just fire up your
> favorite web browser and point it to http://localhost:631 to find a very
> intuitive interface which will walk you through the process of adding a
> printer.
>
>
>

Point the printer software, CUPS, etc at /dev/usb/lp0 .

Now, a Quest further. I have a mouse, 3 button, Belkin

lsusb shows;

Bus 003 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 001: ID 0000:0000
Bus 002 Device 002: ID 1241:1111 Belkin (?) Mouse
Bus 001 Device 001: ID 0000:0000

Anyone get this to work?

linking ((/dev/usb/mouse) or (/dev/usb/mouse2)) to /dev/mouse stops
startx

It works fine with windows and with mozilla, netscape, kwrite, kmail and
open office, but I can't get it to lpr or llpr a standard text file.
The Samsung people claim to support slackware (for which we should all
be grateful), but I don't think their 'help' people really understand
the question. I just want to print text files (program listings,
mostly) like in the old days, not with a word processor. Any hope?

And does anybody know of a linux word processor that will allow 15 or 20
columns in a 4-point or smaller font? Word Perfect can't see the
Samsung, abiword can't even load the file I want to print, open office
is nice but the smallest font is 6 point, kwrite won't do columns...

--
Cheers,
Bev
================================================== =======
"If you watch TV news, you know less about the world than
if you just drank gin straight from the bottle."
- Garrison Keillor

On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:31:41 -0800, The Real Bev wrote:
> It works fine with windows and with mozilla, netscape, kwrite, kmail and
> open office, but I can't get it to lpr or llpr a standard text file.
> The Samsung people claim to support slackware (for which we should all
> be grateful), but I don't think their 'help' people really understand
> the question. I just want to print text files (program listings,
> mostly) like in the old days, not with a word processor. Any hope?
>
> And does anybody know of a linux word processor that will allow 15 or 20
> columns in a 4-point or smaller font? Word Perfect can't see the
> Samsung, abiword can't even load the file I want to print, open office
> is nice but the smallest font is 6 point, kwrite won't do columns...

Hi Bev. I'm at work at the moment (sigh) but if you could give me anexample
of the typesof commands that are failing , e.g lpr file.txt; cat file.txt >
lpr etc.

I use an Okidata ML 390 with cups and I'm sure I can do what you want

Rinaldi
--
When you try to make an impression, the chances are that is the
impression you will make.

"Rinaldi J. Montessi" wrote:
>
> On Fri, 28 Jan 2005 15:31:41 -0800, The Real Bev wrote:
> > It works fine with windows and with mozilla, netscape, kwrite, kmail and
> > open office, but I can't get it to lpr or llpr a standard text file.
> > The Samsung people claim to support slackware (for which we should all
> > be grateful), but I don't think their 'help' people really understand
> > the question. I just want to print text files (program listings,
> > mostly) like in the old days, not with a word processor. Any hope?
> >
> > And does anybody know of a linux word processor that will allow 15 or 20
> > columns in a 4-point or smaller font? Word Perfect can't see the
> > Samsung, abiword can't even load the file I want to print, open office
> > is nice but the smallest font is 6 point, kwrite won't do columns...
>
> Hi Bev. I'm at work at the moment (sigh) but if you could give me anexample
> of the typesof commands that are failing , e.g lpr file.txt; cat file.txt >
> lpr etc.

bb:/root>lpr dvd.txt
bb:/root>lpq
Printer: lp@bb
Queue: no printable jobs in queue
Server: no server active
Status: job 'root@bb+575' saved at 22:03:53.138
Rank Owner/ID Pr/Class Job Files Size
Time
done root@bb+575 A 575 dvd.txt 620
22:03:51
--------------------

At various other times other messages are given, but the common
complaint is "no server active."

# /etc/printcap:
# Samsung
lp:\
:sh:\
:ml#0:\
:mx#0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:if=/usr/local/linuxprinter/filters/spl2print:\
:lp=/dev/usb/lp0:

# old panasonic laser printer with problems
lp1|hpj:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
:sh:\
:if=/usr/lib/laserjet-filter:\
:mx#0:
--------------------------

The Samsung helpguy sent the following:

--------------------------
Use the built in ML-1210 or ML-1430 drivers instead of the ML-1740
drivers. The ML-1740 is a host based printer which means the Operating
System processes the print job, not the printer. Go to
www.linuxprinting.org Look for the FAQ's. You should see Samsung at the
bottom of the page. You may find a workaround.

Copy and page this link into your web browser
http://cbbrowne.com/info/printing.html

you may find the answer to your problem at that website. We have tested
the ML-1740 with Red Hat version 9.We installed the driver using lpr. We
were able to print simple text files from the terminal.
--------------------------

"I think my mind is going, Dave." I assume this means to use their
program to add an ML-1710 printer as lp2 and print to that. I'm
reluctant to try to "improve" something that finally started working
when I don't know why it stopped working :-(

> I use an Okidata ML 390 with cups and I'm sure I can do what you want

Just think, the world is full of immortal Okidata dot matrix printers
that will probably last as long as Schwinn Varsities!

ObMozilla: I can't get either Moz 1.8 or NS 4.79 to print landscape
instead of portrait. 'Print preview' works fine, but the page comes out
portrait. Fortunately there's not much reason to print b+w pix at 600
dpi.

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-------------------------------------------------
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a bunny with a pancake on his head:
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On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:15:53 -0800, The Real Bev wrote:

.....

>> Hi Bev. I'm at work at the moment (sigh) but if you could give me anexample
>> of the typesof commands that are failing , e.g lpr file.txt; cat file.txt >
>> lpr etc.
>
> bb:/root>lpr dvd.txt

This works here.

> bb:/root>lpq
> Printer: lp@bb
> Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> Server: no server active

Is your print daemon running?

> # /etc/printcap:
> # Samsung
> lp:\
> :sh:\
> :ml#0:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :if=/usr/local/linuxprinter/filters/spl2print:\
> :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:

You have a USB printer? Are your usb modules loaded?

> # old panasonic laser printer with problems
> lp1|hpj:\
> :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
> :sh:\
> :if=/usr/lib/laserjet-filter:\
> :mx#0:

cat somefile.txt >/dev/lp0 produces what?

> Just think, the world is full of immortal Okidata dot matrix printers
> that will probably last as long as Schwinn Varsities!

I have a Star Micronics NL10 in the closet.

> ObMozilla: I can't get either Moz 1.8 or NS 4.79 to print landscape
> instead of portrait. 'Print preview' works fine, but the page comes out
> portrait. Fortunately there's not much reason to print b+w pix at 600
> dpi.

Just for grins I gave that a shot. Same results here. Nowever if you
print to file the results can be manipulated with your ps utility (gv,
etc.)>

Rinaldi
--
"Why are we importing all these highbrow plays like `Amadeus'? I could
have told you Mozart was a jerk for nothing."
-- Ian Shoales

"Rinaldi J. Montessi" wrote:
>
> On Sat, 29 Jan 2005 22:15:53 -0800, The Real Bev wrote:
>
> >> Hi Bev. I'm at work at the moment (sigh) but if you could give me anexample
> >> of the typesof commands that are failing , e.g lpr file.txt; cat file.txt >
> >> lpr etc.
> >
> > bb:/root>lpr dvd.txt
>
> This works here.

How nice for you :-( Why me, lord?

> > bb:/root>lpq
> > Printer: lp@bb
> > Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> > Server: no server active
>
> Is your print daemon running?

bb:/root>ps aux |grep lpd
lp 901 0.0 0.2 3352 1264 ? Ss 14:26 0:00 lpd
Waiting

> > # /etc/printcap:
> > # Samsung
> > lp:\
> > :sh:\
> > :ml#0:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > :if=/usr/local/linuxprinter/filters/spl2print:\
> > :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:
>
> You have a USB printer? Are your usb modules loaded?

Yes, yes.

> > # old panasonic laser printer with problems
> > lp1|hpj:\
> > :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
> > :sh:\
> > :if=/usr/lib/laserjet-filter:\
> > :mx#0:
>
> cat somefile.txt >/dev/lp0 produces what?

Nothing. catting to several likely devs (including /dev/usb/lp0, which
is what lp links to) produces this:

bb:/root>cat .gtkrc >/dev/usb/lp0
bb:/root>lpq
Printer: lp@bb
Queue: no printable jobs in queue
Server: no server active
Status: job 'root@bb+907' saved at 14:27:46.345
Rank Owner/ID Pr/Class Job Files Size
Time
done root@bb+907 A 907 (STDIN) 135942
14:27:41

Same result as before, just a different file.

> > Just think, the world is full of immortal Okidata dot matrix printers
> > that will probably last as long as Schwinn Varsities!
>
> I have a Star Micronics NL10 in the closet.

We've had a Panasonic KXP-4420 for at least 10 years. Heavy sucker, and
slow. Something has happened to it that results in the bottom inch of
the paper being unprintable, so we sprung for the Samsung because of its
linux-friendliness. It's really fast, which is nice. It really sucks
to have to wait 5 minutes per page :-( The KXP DOES lpr simple text
files quickly, though.

> > ObMozilla: I can't get either Moz 1.8 or NS 4.79 to print landscape
> > instead of portrait. 'Print preview' works fine, but the page comes out
> > portrait. Fortunately there's not much reason to print b+w pix at 600
> > dpi.
>
> Just for grins I gave that a shot. Same results here. Nowever if you
> print to file the results can be manipulated with your ps utility (gv,
> etc.)>

I like xv with jpgs. Winmozilla prints properly, though :-( My mom
likes to print photos (she uses a profligate deskjet) but I'm glad to be
rid of the need to store paper.

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Cheers,
Bev
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