Re: [SL] printing

[Stroller <lin...@my...>]

Please don't top-post in reply to a bottom-post. Top-post all you
like if you're the first respondent to a thread and I would ask
anyone replying to you not to bottom-post when they follow you. But
mixing the two is more annoying and less legible than either.

I've fixed it for you:

On 2 Jun 2007, at 16:20, Bill Dika wrote:
> On 6/2/07, Stroller <lin...@my...> wrote:
>> On 1 Jun 2007, at 22:14, Bill Dika wrote:
>>>  ...
>>>  I have cups installed.
>>>  ...
>>>  The problem is I can't print to the printer from SL. When I try to
>>>  print an invoice to the printer using either postscript or pdf,  
>>> I get
>>>  nothing. The browser seems to refresh but the printer is silent.
>>>  Nothing happens.
>>
>> CUPS has a web-interface which runs on port 631 - i.e. you can access
>> it via http://localhost:631/ (by default it is only accessible from
>> the local machines, not the network).
>>
>> Do the invoices show up under the "Jobs" tab of that webpage?
>> I believe they should show as "Name: (stdin)" "User: apache".
>
> Thanks for the reply.
>
> The CUPS administration web-interface shows no jobs, neither active
> nor completed after I try to print an invoice to printer with
> postscript or pdf in SL. The web-interface also doesn't show anything
> for active jobs or completed jobs when I print from OpenOffice Calc,
> although the sheet prints out.
>
> Does this indicate a problem with CUPS?

This would tend to suggest to me that your printer configuration is  
not using CUPS, but (presumably?) old-fangled lpr instead. Or maybe  
CUPS simply isn't logging?

I'm afraid I can't add much helpful to this part of the conversation  
because CUPS has worked seamlessly for me on the couple of occasions  
I've set it up, and I have had to do very little debugging.

The CUPS webpage has an option to send a test page to the printer.  
Does this work?

Actually, this should make little difference to your problem - if you  
can `cat textfile | lpr -Php_lj_1020` then I think printing from SL  
should work. I think this failure to do so indicates an SL problem or  
bug.

To be absolutely sure you could grab a copy of the invoice.ps or  
invoice.pdf (by emailing it to yourself, for instance) and try  `cat  
invoice.ps |  | lpr -Php_lj_1020`. I'm not familiar with the LJ1020  
but it would be good to demonstrate that postscript is working with  
your printer, as that is required to interpret SL's output. I don't  
believe that Postscript is needed for printing a textfile.

Stroller.