I tried to install printcd (2.0) using wine ver 1.3.28. It installs but cannot find the printer. The error message is driver for cd printing not found. I can print manually by making my RX700 the printer default, but the output to plain paper is badly distorted. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10. Otherwise the program seems to run correctly. Any suggestions? I'm a linux newby.
Thanks!
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jjmckenzie
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On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 7:14 PM, chester <[email protected]> wrote:
Second, locate and install Linux drivers for your printer.
James
First, Wine does not and cannot support Windows kernel level drivers.I tried to install printcd (2.0) using wine ver 1.3.28. It installs but cannot find the printer. The error message is driver for cd
printing not found. I can print manually by making my RX700 the printer default, but the output to plain paper is badly
distorted. I'm running Ubuntu 11.10. Otherwise the program seems to run correctly. Any suggestions? I'm a linux newby.
Thanks!
Second, locate and install Linux drivers for your printer.
James
Re: PrintCD
Does it work with native Linux apps?chester wrote: Is this a short coming of the cups print drivers unable to print on a CD/DVD because of the form factor?
PrintCD
The printer works just fine with linux. This problem is exclusive with the PrintCD software. For whatever reason, when I run the program, the print driver cannot be found when I select print within the program As an aside, the printCD program prints correctly to my laser. No distortion and the colors are good too.
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Martin Gregorie
Epson PrintCD
On Mon, 2011-12-05 at 20:09 -0600, chester wrote:
If not, take a look at the CUPS (print server) set-up. It should allow
"Publish shared printers connected to this system" and "Allow printing
from the internet" - this is copied from the Fedora 15/Gnome 3 Basic
Server Settings panel, so if you're running a different distro things
may differ.
Reasoning: there are two ways that Linux uses to talk to a printer. One
is via the lpr utility which is/was the default way to send print jobs
to the CUPS spooler. The other way is via the IPP net protocol. This is
what Wine uses and on many distros is disabled by default.
The other way to see if the IPP protocol is enabled or not is to run the
command "nmap localhost". If port 631 appears in the list of open ports,
IPP is enabled.
Martin
Can any other Wine app use the printer via CUPS?The printer works just fine with linux. This problem is exclusive
with the PrintCD software. For whatever reason, when I run the
program, the print driver cannot be found when I select print within
the program As an aside, the printCD program prints correctly to my
laser. No distortion and the colors are good too.
If not, take a look at the CUPS (print server) set-up. It should allow
"Publish shared printers connected to this system" and "Allow printing
from the internet" - this is copied from the Fedora 15/Gnome 3 Basic
Server Settings panel, so if you're running a different distro things
may differ.
Reasoning: there are two ways that Linux uses to talk to a printer. One
is via the lpr utility which is/was the default way to send print jobs
to the CUPS spooler. The other way is via the IPP net protocol. This is
what Wine uses and on many distros is disabled by default.
The other way to see if the IPP protocol is enabled or not is to run the
command "nmap localhost". If port 631 appears in the list of open ports,
IPP is enabled.
Martin
