connection to remote printer is down

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Sat Nov 29 12:35:40 PST 2003


At 1:26 PM -0600 11/29/03, Charles Howse wrote:
>On Saturday 29 November 2003 01:03 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
>  >
>>  To me, it looks like lpd is not accepting remote connections
>>  on moe.  That would happen if lpd is not being started during
>>  system startup, or if you have started it up with the '-s'
>>  ("secure") flag.  What do you see if you type the following
>>  command on moe:
>
>The -s flag was the problem.  Thanks!

FEATURE.  It's a FEATURE...    :-)

>May I ask another printer-related question?
>
>Using KDE, is there a way to change the quality or resolution
>of a print job on the fly?  For example, when I open KEdit
>to print a file, I don't have an option to print in a
>different resolution or to lower the quality setting.
>
>I'm having to edit /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/hp1100/apsfilterrc
>and change things to suit me before each print job at a
>different setting.

I don't use KDE or apsfilter, so someone else will have to
answer this.  If I understand what you're looking for, you
might be able to get the effect you want by defining multiple
print queues, with different options for each queue.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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