connection to remote printer is down

Charles Howse chowse at charter.net
Sat Nov 29 12:42:38 PST 2003


On Saturday 29 November 2003 02:35 pm, Garance A Drosihn wrote:
> 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.

That was the only thing that I could think of, too.
We'll see if anyone else has any ideas.

-- 
Thanks,
Charles
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