On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 20:26 +0200, Frode Petersen wrote: > yonas Abraham wrote: > > There were a know bug with the > > same symptom, if the printer is set as raw printer in FC6. If so > > change to the correct PPD file or make the printer a postscript > > printer. > > what type of printer is it, make model connection type, how you > > created the queue? > > I'm not shure of what you mean by 'raw printer'. Is it specific to > postscript setups? > > The printer is a HP LaserJet 6L, printing through CUPS, normally with > the Gutenprint driver, but I also have setups defined with hpijs and > (for testing) ljet4 drivers. (The last two from the foomatic package.) > Test pages print as they should. > > They were set up through the Fedora menu/System/Administration/Printers > program (I'm not shure of the correct english name for the utility, but > it has a Red Hat owned copyright, written by Florian Festi, Tim Waugh) > > The strange thing is that this setup has worked for months and just > recently stopped working. I am not aware of any changes to drivers or > sybsystem, and I have sole access to admin utils. > > That is, while writing this I checked for any .rpmnew files lying > around, and found two printing related. > (/usr/share/config/kdeprintrc.rpmnew and > /usr/share/config/ui/kprintpreviewui.rc.rpmnew) I think these have to do > with KDE, and as I use Gnome they shouldn't be the cause of the problem. > I'll check it out anyway just in case. > > I noticed another oddity. On the print dialog's second page where the > page setup is specified, you can specify pages per sheet, duplex, paper > type, paper source and output tray. These are all greyed out and marked > as 'not accessible' or 'not available' (I use a different localisation.) > > Thanks for the tip, Yonas. There seems to be a bit more road ahead > before arriving at a solution, but every step helps in getting there. > > Frode > FWIW I had the same problem of print button greyed out & could only print to file. Fiddled for a couple of hours until I glanced at the hub to see the link light was out. Put the plug back in and all was well. -- Regards Simon -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
