On Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:30 +0000, "Tim Waugh" <twaugh(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Mon, 2010-11-01 at 14:25 -0400, Barry wrote:
> Yes, the Laserjet, and I've always used the postscript drivers, several
> machines, different platforms. But I just tried the PCL3 driver and it
> too is weird. I printed a test page with it that came out with all the
> graphics. I was able to print one web page, but not another -- however,
> this time I got an error that said it was an empty file.
What device URI are you using on the guest? It's something like
socket://{IP-addr-of-printer}:9000/ I expect..? i.e. can we verify that
it really is talking directly to the printer, and not to e.g. the host's
queue.
The device uri is file:///dev/null
I'm sure I didn't write that it, but am just using it as a discovered
printer. The printer is attached to another machine. The print dialogue
window from Firefox shows the correct host for the printer. When I tried
attaching the printer to the machine hosting the vm, it showed up under
that machine's name.
Try eliminating HPLIP from the equation altogether to see if the problem
still happens: use another driver entirely (e.g. gutenprint, or a driver
listed under manufacturer 'Generic') and make sure you are not using the
'hp' backend.
But Chrome can print. So can other programs. Makes me wonder if it's not
FF specific.
I have another vm with the RH 6 beta on it. Later, I'll set up printing
on that and try that.
Tim.
*/
Barry
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