Samsung ML-1520 manual Problem, Possible Cause and Solution, How do I specify the IP

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How do I specify the IP

Problem

Possible Cause and Solution

 

 

How do I specify the IP

It can be specified in the “Add Printer” dialog of the

address of my SMB

configuration tool, if you don’t use the CUPS printing

server?

system. Unfortunately, CUPS currently doesn’t allow to

 

specify the IP address of SMB printers, so you will have to

 

be able to browse the resource with Samba in order to be

 

able to print.

 

 

Some documents come

Some versions of CUPS, especially those shipped with

out as white pages when

Mandrake Linux before the 8.1 release, have some known

printing.

bugs when processing the PostScript output from some

 

applications. Try upgrading to the latest version of CUPS

 

(at least 1.1.14). Some RPM packages for most popular

 

distributions are provided as a convenience with this Linux

 

Printing Package.

 

 

I have CUPS and some

There may be some local options defined in your ~/

options (such as N-up)

.lpoptions file, which is manipulated by the lpoptions

seem to be always

command. These options will always be used if not

enabled even though I

overridden by LLPR settings. To get rid of all options for a

don’t pick them in LLPR.

printer, run the following command, replacing “printer”

 

with the name of the queue: lpoptions -x printer.

 

 

I configured a printer to

Most printing systems will not run as the super-user but as

print to a file, but I get

a special user (usually “lp”). Therefore, make sure that the

“Permission denied”

file you have chosen to print to is accessible to the user

errors.

owning the spooler daemon.

 

 

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.

instead of my document.

You can try to capture the output to a file and view the

 

results with Ghostscript (gv or ghostview will allow you to

 

do so interactively) and see if you get error messages.

 

However, since the application is at probably fault, contact

 

your software vendor to inform them of the issue.

 

 

6.22 SOLVING PROBLEMS

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