[kde-linux] System -> Printing doesn't work.

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Sat Feb 21 13:57:48 UTC 2009


On Saturday 21 February 2009 12:01:16 James Richard Tyrer wrote:
>
> Actually, "Printing" isn't in System Settings, but I tried to open it in
> a Konsole after "su" and it didn't help.  And as a bonus, it screwed up
> my root account. :-)  Apparently, KDE4 doesn't know the difference
> between running with root permissions and actually being root.
>
> Any who, I use the CUPS configuration HTML page to set up the printer,
> which doesn't solve the problem but it is a workaround that worked.
>
> So, I tried printing and it printed.  Problem is that it printed the
> PostScript code rather than the page.  Other people have had that
> problem so I presume that it can be fixed.

Go back to CUPS setup and check that it has the right driver.

Anne
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