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How do I specify the IP | It can be specified in the “Add Printer” dialog of the |
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address of my SMB | configuration tool, if you don’t use the CUPS printing |
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server? | system. Unfortunately, CUPS currently doesn’t allow to |
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| specify the IP address of SMB printers, so you will have to |
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| be able to browse the resource with Samba in order to be |
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| able to print. |
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Some documents come | Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped with |
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out as white pages when | Mandrake Linux before the 8.1 release, have some known |
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printing. | bugs when processing the PostScript output from some |
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| applications. Try upgrading to the latest version of CUPS |
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| (at least 1.1.14). Some RPM packages for most popular |
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| distributions are provided as a convenience with this Linux |
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| Printing Package. |
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I have CUPS and some | There may be some local options defined in your ~/ |
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options (such as | .lpoptions file, which is manipulated by the lpoptions |
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seem to be always | command. These options will always be used if not |
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enabled even though I | overridden by LLPR settings. To get rid of all options for a |
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don’t pick them in LLPR. | printer, run the following command, replacing “printer” |
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| with the name of the queue: lpoptions |
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I configured a printer to | Most printing systems will not run as the |
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print to a file, but I get | a special user (usually “lp”). Therefore, make sure that the |
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“Permission denied” | file you have chosen to print to is accessible to the user |
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errors. | owning the spooler daemon. |
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On my PCL (or SPL) | Unfortunately, some Unix applications may generate non- | |
printer, I sometimes get | compliant PostScript output that may not be supported by | |
error messages printing | Ghostscript, or even the printer itself in PostScript mode. |
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instead of my document. | You can try to capture the output to a file and view the |
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| results with Ghostscript (gv or ghostview will allow you to |
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| do so interactively) and see if you get error messages. |
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| However, since the application is at probably fault, contact |
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| your software vendor to inform them of the issue. |
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