From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B5B961384B4 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:20:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id F236F21C0B7; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:20:33 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net (mail-1.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.69]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id E19A621C0B1 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 23:20:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD64E31A3A8 for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:20:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from mail-1.ca.inter.net ([208.85.220.69]) by localhost (offload-3.ca.inter.net [208.85.220.70]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id YlaS0kDbNbJF for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:20:30 -0500 (EST) Received: from ca.inter.net (host-45-78-202-36.dyn.295.ca [45.78.202.36]) by mail-1.ca.inter.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 80AF7313D8F for ; Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:20:29 -0500 (EST) Received: by ca.inter.net (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Tue, 03 Nov 2015 18:20:29 -0500 Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 18:20:29 -0500 From: Philip Webb To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] printing problems Message-ID: <20151103232029.GB1383@ca.inter.net> Mail-Followup-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org References: <20151102000812.GA1123@ca.inter.net> <56380766.3010302@gmail.com> <20151103183358.GA1383@ca.inter.net> <201511032249.50716.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201511032249.50716.michaelkintzios@gmail.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Archives-Salt: 241016bd-66de-4d4d-a0f0-8517bb45a038 X-Archives-Hash: 9aa0a7304ab09ffce88ff40fbc451e56 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. -- ========================,,============================================ SUPPORT ___________//___, Philip Webb ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Cities Centre, University of Toronto TRANSIT `-O----------O---' purslowatchassdotutorontodotca