Printing is a process for reproducing text and image, typically with ink on paper, using a printer or a printing press.
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Fully Disable PrntScr Key
I recently came across a Linux feature I have never seen before, where pressing the PrntScr button on the keyboard prints a physical piece of paper with the contents of my console.
I really need to ...
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An easier way to print from a live CD than Puppy?
After several failed attempts to burn an Ubuntu CD to live boot from (they wouldn't boot, maybe because my CD burning software wouldn't burn slower than 4X speed?), I've managed to get a boot disc ...
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How to print several files at the same time using lpr?
I am trying to print a number of files from shell using lpr. I enter something like:
lpr -P PRINTERNAME ./*/dir/file.pdf
but I get "lpr: No file in print request.".
When I use ls as
ls ...
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Ricoh Aficio SP C240DN driver
I have seen the driver here, but that is a black/white laser printer.
So the question here is: does it support color?
I'm getting the same printer, and hope, that I can find a solution to this. ...
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How to add printer ricoh 2018d?
I'm using Linux Mint 13 and got some troubles with installing Ricoh 2018d.
I also have an another printer, "Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet Professional P1102w" and this was piece of cake. I've just do ...
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lp command can’t open samba url
I have a Linux host with Samba installed and a Windows server with some Files.
Samba is set up correctly and works just fine.
I can show pdfs from the Windows server with
evince ...
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lpr printing wrong ASCII characters
Since upgrading to Ubuntu 12.04, printing plain text files with lpr on my HP LaserJet 2420 printer malfunctions in a very specific way: for each character that is supposed to be printed, the character ...
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Cups configuration does not consider my new PPD driver (Debian Wheezy)
My Brother HL-4040CN is very impredictible when trying to print images or PDFs. Searching around, I found an accurate driver description file at openprinting.org: ...
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How to make a printer which is recognized but not working print
I'm running a Debian 6.0. I connected an HP 1000 J110 to my server which I access via SSH. Listing the USB ports it recognized it. Also I Pasted the PPD on the /etc/cups/ppd/ folder. Is the PPD my PC ...
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Can groff create a ps file with interpreted ANSI escape characters?
This question is inspired by this one on SU. How can I print bold or color using lp and ANSI escape sequences? I know how to display, for example, bold text in the terminal:
$ echo -e ...
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How to force lp from CUPS to print in grayscale?
I want to print an image from a command line:
lp -o scaling=//100// image.jpg
How can I force it to be printed in grayscale?
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Enable remote printing options with cups-lpd
I am trying to print from SCO OpenServer remotely to a CUPS-LPD daemon running on a Red Hat Linux machine but it is dropping any print options from the print request.
For example:
lp -d ...
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printing .cpp file from command line using emacs
The goal is to print a set of *.cpp files on a network printer, but... in a way that the (color) printer prints the files like they appear in the c++ editor including the colors and highlighting. And ...
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Images won't print in landscape. Ricoh MPC3500
Had a strange quirk with a Ricoh MPC3500 unable to print images in landscape. At first I thought it was just not printing images but after some testing it prints them fine in portrait.
Im using Mint ...
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Adding printer from Gnome 3 on Debian Wheezy, Firewalld not running
I get an error trying to add a printer on Debian Wheezy that FirewallD is not running. I am trying to add a remote printer. There is no firewall on this computer, iptables blocks nothing, and there is ...
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Panasonic printer refuses to print
I recently switched from Ubuntu to Opensuse because of bloatware (including Unity).
However, I'm not able to make my LAN printer Panasonic KX-MB 2010 work. In Ubuntu I set the printer up using this ...
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View all user's printing jobs from the command line
I'm running Fedora 17, Gnome (3?), and using bash from terminal. Whenever I run lpstat I only get a list of my jobs, but every time I go to retrieve my jobs from the printer, somebody else is ...
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How can I convert raw printer commands back to a postscript or pdf file?
I have a string of raw printer commands that are for my postscript printer saved to a file.
I believe there is a lpr option like -o raw which will read these raw command and send them to the printer.
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CUPS - check if print successful (either python or in system)
EDIT: I forgot to make it clear I'm using python and pycups. The code is python but I shouldn't have thought that was enough.
I've dug through the cups documentation a few times and couldn't find ...
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How to install a printer that is connected via an USB-to-Parallel-Port adapter?
I'm running Sabayon Linux (x86_64).
$ uname -a
Linux qdoe 3.7.0-sabayon #1 SMP Thu Dec 20 07:12:55 UTC 2012 x86_64 Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-3930K CPU @ 3.20GHz GenuineIntel GNU/Linux
I have a HP ...
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CUPS gives 'Unable to open the initial device, quitting' when printing to network printer
I am trying to print over Wi-Fi to an HP Photosmart D110 printer which is successfully recognized by CUPS. But I only get a sheet with the error message Unable to open the initial device, quitting. ...
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Can (CUPS) ppd files for Mac OS X be used for linux?
I am looking at buying a printer (actually an all-in-one I prefer for the features it provides, but I want to focus on the printer part here) which does not provide linux drivers, but does provide Mac ...
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Ricoh Aficio SP 100su E
After installing a Ricoh Aficio SP 100su E printer (it does scanning as well),
I've tried a tenth of the GDI and PCL (5e/6) generic and Ricoh drivers without any success.
I've learned from Ricoh that ...
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Shellscript to print a directory tree and files's contents with a nice presentation
I'm trying to write a shellscript which prints a tree-view for a specific directory and it's subdirs to pdf via latex, as well as the titles and contents of all scripts contained within that primary ...
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Automatically printing images with added captions
I have a lot of scanned images and images/photos I'm working on with
multiple versions. When I print them (using various programs), all I
get is the image and, often, it's difficult to tell which ...
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Get list of installed printers
Inside of a script I send a certain file to print using the lpr command on an user-selected printer.
The list of the printers, from which the user selects the one to use, I get using the lpstat -a ...
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How do restore printer settings from a backup
I recently re-installed my system from Mint 12 to Mint 14. Pretty much everything is set as before but I had apparently forgotten about the printers.
In order to avoid resetting all the small ...
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Printing a file from local computer using printer connected to remote server
On the remote server, I use lp command to print documents. I can connect to this server through SSH.
How can I print a file directly from my local computer using that printer?
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Printing PDF with not embedded TrueType Font (cups / lpr)
I have a PDF in which the TrueType font OCRB is used, however the font is not embedded.
So I tried to install the font on my system (which is by the way a SLES11 SP2), I did the following things:
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Default printing options in KDE 4 dialog
How can I set default printing options, so that they are always pre-populated in the KDE 4 print dialog window (when printing from Ocular for example)?
