[ale] CUPS & Open Office

[James P. Kinney III]

I think it might be easier to set up the OpenOffice printer as just a
generic printer. Then in the next window enter the exact command line
you would use to print a postscript file except for the file name part.
It's not a very sophisticated print system.

Example:

I have an HP Business Inkjet 2200. It is on my wife's machine (merlin).
My box (archimedes) has a print que named HP that is a remote que
pointing to the HP que on merlin. I am using lpr-ng so my CLI for
printing a postscript file is lpr -PHP. That's what I entered into OO
and it work great.

On Tue, 2003-01-28 at 20:36, Jim wrote:
> On Tuesday 28 January 2003 07:05 pm, Jim wrote:
> > In some other posts recently, somebody insisted setting up a printer for
> > Open Office was easy with CUPS. Remind me of how easy it is. I have a
> > printer set up and working fine with CUPS. In Open Office, I use spadmin to
> > add a new printer. I import the ppd file that CUPS is using and tell Open
> > Office to use that printer. I go to print a test page and nothing happens.
> > I look at print admin in the CUPS interface and no job exists. What now?
> 
> So far, this is what I see as command line output if I try to print a test 
> page using spadmin:
> 
> connected to 'localhost'
>  requesting printer EPSC62 at localhost
>  job 'rebus at localhost+938' transfer to EPSC62 at localhost failed
>   error 'NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL'
>   sending str '^BEPSC62' to EPSC62 at localhost
>  error msg: 'spool queue for 'epsc62' does not exist on server 
> localhost.localdomain'
>  error msg: '   non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f''
> 
> Of course, hte printer does exist and it works fine if I print from a KDE app 
> or use "kprinter -stdin". But that command fails if Itry to use if within 
> OpenOffice. Any ideas?
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