On Monday 24 February 2003 13:04, William H. Fissell wrote:
Hi,
I am running RH8.0 out of the box, other than that I compiled and
installed gimp-print 4.3.10. I am trying to use gimpto print to my HP
7150, which prints a test page fine under CUPS or lprNG, but is mangled
and wrong with any gimp settings I invent--
- the only photosmart options in the gimp/gimp-print combo I have are
1000 and 1100-- those give me garbled output
-setting it as a postscript 2 printer and using the foomatic ppd file
gives me no output- not even a listing in the spool directory.
Any out there got this printer up and running with GIMP?
thanks in advance,
Bill
Hi Bill,
One question I'd ask right off is, is your printer working fine with anything
else, like OpenOffice, or Abiword - anything? Juat need to know if the thing
works at all with your setup, aside from a test page.
Assuming it does though, one way to print is to print to a file as a
postscirpt file. Then print the file using some variant of Ghostview or some
other postscript viewer, or just using a console window and the lpr command.
You will need to know what your system is calling your printer - it has been
given a name by your system if it is capable of printing with lpr.
For example, if your system calls your printer something like, "hp1750" then
you could print the postscript file of the picture from a console with the
command,
lpr -Plp hp1750
If your system calls your printer, "marsattacks" and you want 5 copies, you
would use,
lpr -Plp -K5 marsattacks
Of course, you would have to be in the same spot in the directory tree as the
postscript picture file to be printed to not have to type out the directory
tree together with the file name.
Let me know if this helps, and good luck! There are probably (or should be)
better ways, but this should get you by.
Fred
