Hello,
Could anyone please help us in getting dot matrix printer working in Openoffice?. Kannur district administration is getting migrated to GNU/Linux and as part of it few section has got GNU/Linux Redhat 9 installed. All sections has got dot matrix printer Model WIPRO HQ 1040+( 24 pin). Using printtool in RH9, local printer is configured using driver epson LQ1050 ( "omni" driver)( we do not know what is the compatible driver in Linux for this Model, so tried epson LQ1050). A test print from printool worked just fine. But in OpenOffice we can not get any printout. When we tried the driver epson "dot matrix" ( driver "epsonc") OpenOffice did print, but the quality was very poor and print is not clear. The printer works just fine in Windows. Could anyone please help us to fix the problem.?.
Apreciating your help
Regards
Sujeevan S2S2,Kannur
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swathantra software said on Thu, Jul 15, 2004 at 08:29:21AM -0700,:
Could anyone please help us in getting dot matrix printer working in Openoffice?.
Which version of OO.o?
Printer installation is easier, IMHO under version 1.1*. Did you try /usr/lib/openoffice/spadmin.bin? (of course, it should be invoked from the spadmin shell script in dotopenoffice* directory in $HOME.
Try the `generic printer' option too. Chances are that you have chosen the wrong print resolution (60x72 or something like that, when you ought ot have used 60x60 dpi).
HTH.
--- swathantra software s2s2@linux.net wrote: >
Hello,
Could anyone please help us in getting dot matrix printer working in Openoffice?. Kannur district administration is getting migrated to GNU/Linux and as part of it few section has got GNU/Linux Redhat 9 installed. All sections has got dot matrix printer Model WIPRO HQ 1040+( 24 pin). Using printtool in RH9, local printer is configured using driver epson LQ1050 ( "omni" driver)( we do not know what is the compatible driver in Linux for this Model, so tried epson LQ1050). A test print from printool worked just fine. But in OpenOffice we can not get any printout. When we tried the driver epson "dot matrix" ( driver "epsonc") OpenOffice did print, but the quality was very poor and print is not clear. The printer works just fine in Windows. Could anyone please help us to fix the problem.?.
Apreciating your help
Regards
Sujeevan S2S2,Kannur
Dotmatrix printers work fine on OO, if you let cups do the printing.
Define your printers in cups first (if you are using lprng please change to cups).
Use spadmin under OO to configure printer. Simply choose a name. Do not select any driver, instead under command give
lp -d cups-printer-name
This works fine for me. Remote printers can also be configure likewise.
cups has separate drivers for 9pin and 24pin epson printers.
Raman.P
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