Re: [SL] Tracking Down Printing Problem

[Jeff R. <je...@jr...>]

Hi Rich

I agree, buying new printers to solve an upgrade problem is a "Microsoft 
solution". I'd personally feel like Bill Gates had forced me to spend 
money I hadn't wanted to. No Way! We've been running Linux/Unix for 
almost ten years now and all of my HP LJIIIDs still operate fine :-) .

Can you post what your sql-ledger.conf has under '# available printers'

Are you using CUPS for your printing system? What does it call the printer?

What computer is your printer connected to? The server? The desktop?

By parallel port? USB port? or on a local network by IP address?

The more data the better. I once had my server drop all of the printers 
that it was supposed to see on the network through CUPS, the names had 
changed and there was a problem with "concise names" or something like 
that in the CUPS.conf file. It happened after years of normal operation 
and all I had to do was make sure the printer names were consistent from 
the computer where the queue was to the sql-server to the desktop and it 
all started working again.

Remember, also, that sql prints from the server not the desktop that you 
access it from so while the lpr command may work from the desktop that's 
not where it's called from. Does the lpr command work from the computer 
where Apache is running?


Jeff




Rich Shepard wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Dec 2008, Paul Tammes wrote:
>
>   
>> Wild guess: I had some very weird and not reproducable errors aftrer
>> updating my dual nboot machine from XP to Vista.
>>     
>
> Paul,
>
>    We've run nothing but linux for more than a decade.
>
>   
>> Not wanting to spend more than an hour to investigate i threw out the HP
>> laserjet 1310 (2 years old, works perfect under XP sec) and bought a new
>> Samsung Laser (black and white).
>>     
>
>    The LJ 5 works just fine. Your solution, if applied to automobiles, would
> be to replace your car if the windshield wipers stopped working.
>
>    The problem that arose here has nothing to do with the printer. I can
> print from other applications, print from within SL to a PostScript file
> (which can then be printed using lpr), and had printed directly from within
> SL for the past four years.
>
> Rich
>
>