Re: Mozilla, cups, xprint, KDE/kprinter woes

Thomas Ronayne wrote:
> Something you might want to try is setting your default printer name to 
> the PostScript printer in the environment -- export LPDEST=psprinter (or 
> whatever you've named it. If you do that in /etc/profile, every user 
> will have that printer as the default if they do, say, "lp file" or "lpr 
> file." Mozilla will pick up on that, too. Another thing you can do is 
> add either "-d printername" or "-P printername" in the Printer 
> Properties window (that's not as good as setting LPDEST system-wide). 
> Don't forget that you have to log off and back on for settings in 
> /etc/profile to take effect.

I have cups set up so the main printer is the default. Other apps 
(scribus, open office, etc.) pick up on this.

> 
> That may take care of some of your difficulties (I have two printers at 
> home and twenty at work configured like this -- individual users have a 
> default printer set in their .profile -- and everybody seems to be happy).


Thanks for the suggestion.  Maybe that will help with Moz.

Bob

> 
> Bob Horvath wrote:
> 
>> I've used Linux and Mozilla for years, and have recently gotten 
>> frustrated by the crappy print quality I get.
>>
>> I have an Epson Stylus Photo 900.  I use cups with gimpprint to print 
>> to it.
>>
>> I also have a raw print queue for printing to the printer from a 
>> Windows machine.
>>
>> One problem that has driven me crazy is that Mozilla always showed the 
>> raw queue first, and then the epson queue, and then the postscript 
>> default one which goes to kprinter.  If I wasn't paying attention, or 
>> someone else tried printing to my computer, it would send
>> postscript (I am guessing) to the printer and I would get garbage 
>> coming out - lots of pages of it too.
>>
>> I did some investigation and figured it I could get it to print using 
>> kprinter, that would be good.  Removing xprint got rid of Mozilla 
>> finding out about the raw and epson queues.  It also got rid of some 
>> of the features of print preview such as changing the size of the 
>> printout.
>>
>> I am not sure the scaling ever actualy worked as I could never seem to 
>> get something printed that looked like the preview.  The output was 
>> always stretched vertically.  Without xprint, print preview and the 
>> output do not match.
>>
>> Basically I have concluded that printing on Linux from Mozilla sucks, 
>> but I would like to make sure that my conclusion is based on fact, and 
>> not on ignorance.  Is there a way to improve this?