Re: [Fwd: Gnome printing problem, please help.]

["Anthony E. Greene" <agreene pobox com>]

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On 21-Aug-2002/15:19 +0100, mike <mike redtux demon co uk> wrote:
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>I only have 6 HP Laser printer ranged from 5L to 1100. Share printing is
>a important.
>
>The application used: abiword 0.99.5.
>
>The actual situation:
>When other users send for printing, it printed nicely at the beginning,
>but after a while, the printer blinks and stop printing. I got to go into
>Printer Configuration section to restart lpd for it to continue. I cannot
>find anything about the print queue so that I can delete the documents.
>When I am not around, I ask the users to reboot the printer-attached
>computer and it prints again, but just for few pages, than stop.

If you don't need any fancy features from your printers (double-sided,
etc), then you might try using the HP 5/5M Postscript driver on the
Winboxes and configure Linux to use Postscript too.

Most HP LaserJet printers support Postscript, even though that fact is not
always easy to find in the docs. This will put most of the processing work
on the Winboxes.

You might even try the "Raw Print Queue" driver on Linux. That will send
the data from the Winboxes to the printer unfiltered. But that would mean
any local printjobs would have to be processed by the application before
sending them to the printer. Most Linux applications output plaintext or
Postscript, so that may not be a problem for you.

Tony
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