Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems

[Philip Webb <purslow@ca.inter.net>]

151103 Mick wrote:
> On Tuesday 03 Nov 2015 18:33:58 Philip Webb wrote:
>> The basic problem is now clear : this printer won't print draft quality,
>> but leaves blank bands across the output (no, it's not an old cartridge).
>> Therefore, something has to tell it to print 'high-quality' or 'best'.
>> 
>> In Mint, when that is set via the 631 menu, printing works correctly :
>> I can print text files via Gvim (icon or  :ha ) & Gedit,  .odt  via LO
>> & PDF via Evince ; Gedit & Evince have their own quality settings.
>> 
>> In Gentoo, the 631 setting has no effect, so all printing is draft.
>> Only Kwrite has its own quality setting, which does work properly for text.
>> In addition, the icon doesn't work in Gvim, tho'  :ha  does.
>> It cb caused by the difference in desktops, Xfce on Mint, Fluxbox on Gentoo
>> : perhaps the bigger desktop managers do the job themselves,
>> whereas something else needs fixing with the lightweight Fluxbox.
> Is your gentoo user a member of lp & lpadmin group?

'lpadmin' yes ; 'lp' no, but 'lp' is a member : I've added my userid.
On the face of it, the latter shouldn't make a difference, but I can test.

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