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error 1017: Catridge fail in HP PSC 1510

suddenly the printer stop working and give an error about a color catridge. The printer is a HP PSC 1510 all-in-one. I follow this guide to try to solve it, but no luck: ...
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Insert blank page using Print Dialog

Is there a way to insert a blank page anywhere in the document using the print dialog? The use case in my mind: While in print dialog, if it were possible to direct the printer to insert blank pages ...
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Extremely slow printing (1 cps or so) on linux

I have a generic printer (text only) connected to a linux PC via parallel port but suddently it will just refuse to print at a normal speed. Form a cople of pages per minute I'm stuck at a couple of ...
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cups lp print multiple separately stapled copies

There is a Ricoh MPC3001, which I'm using for printing. Today I tried to print five copies of some pages in a PDF, while also stapling them: lp -n 5 -P 31-50 -o Duplex=DuplexNoTumble -o ...
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Missing lines in pdf print taken on Linux

When printing a PDF document on Linux some horizontal and vertical lines go missing. The document contains many lines of the same width but only a few go missing each time. The same document when ...
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How can I print two small files on the same page with a2ps?

I'm using Ubuntu Linux 12.0.4.1 LTS and I like the auto-formatting that a2ps does. I just want to print several small files using as few pages as possible. Example: a2ps file1.c file2.c file3.c ...
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Cups without webserver

I have a minimal linux system and I would like to print. It seems the usual approach is to install cups. But what I think is very annoying is that cups comes with its own webserver to do the ...
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Is it possible to print without CUPS?

Having a SOHO printer, HP DeskJet 3940 is it possible to print with lpr/lpd on Debian GNU/Linux? The Debian Wiki says that LPR. The still commonly used traditional printing system is called lpr ...
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Print dynamic PDF in command line using acroread

I'm using debian, acroread version 9.5.1 is installed (latest as far as I know). What I want to accomplish is to print a dynamic PDF via command line. Dynamic PDFs are those, where the rendering is ...
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Again, how can I get the data sent to printer by attaching linux pc to the printer side of the wire, hen print it somewhere else?

The similar question was asked by davidb, however the circumstances are different. I have a device with the 9-pin RS-232 port and an ancient printer connected to that device. I need to replace the ...
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Printing from the command line with LibreOffice, lpr commands?

I'm trying to print a word document from the command line, but I need to specify printing options that I would normally use lpr for. This is the command I'm using libreoffice -p "filename.doc" I ...
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Missing characters when printing in linux

I have a pdf that I was printing recently, and on the final printout there is a single character that doesn't print. It is the greek letter phi, and the pdf was built with pdflatex. The phi shows up ...
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Automated printouts from a wireless printer

I have a wireless printer which is always on, and an always on fanless Linux server. Looking at the mprinter project on Kickstarter I started to wonder if there is a way for me to prepare an ...
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Virtualbox: print from Windows XP guest in Xubuntu host, using NAT

I have several network printers at work and at home I'd like to access in a Windows XP guest, under a Xubuntu 12.04 host. I have networking set to NAT, since I take my laptop back and forth to work ...
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Printing: Different pages from different feeds (pdf)

I've got a pdf document and want to print it about 100 times with a Kyocera fs 4020dn printer. I'd like to have the first page on colored paper. Is it possible to tell the printer to take the first ...
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How do I setup a WI-FI printer?

I have a Samsung ML-2168W printer with WI-FI support. Currently it is connected to my computer with a USB cable. However, I have no clue of how to connect it to the network through WI-FI (with WPA). ...
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Samba jobs disappear from Windows spooler

I searched for similar issues to no avail, yet I have multiple systems exhibiting the same bizarre behavior. Samba jobs printed to Windows printer shares arrive at the Windows workstation, but then ...
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How do I install a brother mfc5895cw printer filter for ubuntu 11.10 64 bit?

I have already installed the pinter ppd file from a brother download, the system recognizes my printer but when I try to print it says it cannot because a printer filter is missing
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CUPS : Creating a dummy printer directing to dev/null

I used following command , is there anything wrong with it ? lpadmin -p lp0 -E -v /dev/null -m raw
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Remote CUPS Printing, Is It Possible?

I have a RHEL 6 server, and a Solaris 2.6 server. The RHEL 6 server is able to print to a network printer, which is a Laserjet 4014DN, using CUPS. I want to have the Solaris 2.6 server print to that ...
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Why isn't my printer listed?

Why is my printer not listed when using the lsusb command? I've got a HP Photosmart C4780 connected via USB on Ubuntu 12.04. I've installed hplip but I still but this does not appear to have solved ...
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Debian: Firefox or Iceweasel default printer for POS station - web application

Context Using Debian 6.04 "Squeeze" as POS station. Needs to prints to receipt printer from web app. There are two printers installed: Network printer [ default ] and a receipt printer. It ...
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Linux IrDA printing

I have a USB IrDA that I got working with my IrDA printer (SiPiX compact printer A6) on the Windows side, using default 4000000 speed and 1.0ms turn-around time (in the driver config). The USB IrDA ...
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Epson receipt printer slow on Linux

I am trying to set up a POS station for web-based software. The receipt printer, an Epson TM-T88V, is slow using Epson's own drivers and prescribed installation method. To clarify, it is slower than ...
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Sending DYMO xml label files directly to printer

Is this possible on either lin or win? I've had this working with a Zebra printer by just using COPY/cat to send the EPL text file to the USB port, but no such luck with DYMO. Under win I can print ...
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Most convenient way to get a “2up” (2 pages per physical page / sheet) option for LPR?

I'm looking for something similar to How to convert a 1 page PDF to a 2 page per sheet PDF?, but that works like LPR instead of a PDF file converter. This institution has a custom version of lpr that ...
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Removing an unknown linux printer

Linux printing appeared to be working fine up until yesterday. Today typing lpq gives the following: lpq Printer 'sdst@other.domain' - cannot open connection - Connection timed out Make sure ...
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problem with linux usb device permission on reboot

THe below output from my terminal probably should make sense to those able to help: [root@Plugbox ~]# cd /dev/bus/usb [root@Plugbox usb]# ls 001 [root@Plugbox usb]# cd 001 [root@Plugbox 001]# ls -l ...
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How can I get my HP 309G printer to work on Linux Mint 10?

How can I get my HP 309G printer to work on Linux Mint 10? It is not recognized out-of-the-box, and HP doesn't supply drivers.
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printing in linux

I've been a linux user for quite some time. But haven't do printing until now. I just wanna ask how to do printing in linux? I have researched a bit on it. I found some $> echo "print me" > ...
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Printing without a spooler

I have a non-root account on a shared server, on which the system administrators do not support printing because of past experience with stalled and runaway jobs. For the same reason, they do not ...
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dscInfo dictionary - cups printing

In my .ppd file, i see the following text: *% If the dscInfo dictionary is not set using the printer driver, the *% userlogin and job name are set to "CUPS User" and "CUPS Application" *% ...
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FinePrint Alternative on Linux

I'm looking for a program similar to FinePrint for Linux; I'm running Ubuntu 10.04. FinePrint is basically a virtual printer device/driver that acts as a proxy for an actual printer, and allows you to ...
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How to set default “Page Setup →Page Size” as A4 in Firefox?

In my Firefox (linux) I can change the page as A4 in File → Page Setup → Page Size. Doing this, I inform the browser to print my pages as A4, instead of the default of Letter. My printer doesn't have ...
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Missing paper size when printing from Openoffice

I'm trying to print a spreadsheet from Openoffice 3.0.1 (Xubuntu 9.04), I'd like to use the A3 pagesize but the Print dialog shows only A4 and Letter.. Other applications work fine. Any idea on what ...
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Linux: how to list printer names acceptable for use with lpr?

The lpr man page says a destination printer can be specified with the -P flag. -P destination[/instance] Prints files to the named printer. I have 'added' various printers on local Samba shares ...
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Printing transcript with ANSI escape sequence

Is there a way to print a transcript generated using script that is coloured using ANSI escape sequences while preserving the colours? I am on Mac OS X 10.6, but any tool that works on ...
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Printing from Firefox on Linux with bad and random letter spacing

I have the problem that printing normal pages from Firefox on Linux results in very erratic letter spacing within words. I've attached an image of a print preview on a Google result page. For ...
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How print multiple independent pages in one print job?

How can I combine multiple single page prints into a single print job? For example, using Firefox on Linux one can print a web page such that each sheet of paper has four pages printed upon it. I ...
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How to resume CUPS printer from command line?

I have printer in CUPS that due to driver problems (HP 1010) from time to time goes into pause. I would like to write a shell script that will execute once per hour to resume a printer in CUPS. But ...
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cannot print from flash-player plugin

I am running flash-player plug-in 10.0.32.10 inside of Firefox on a SLED 11 machine. Firefox can print to the network printer without issue from File > Print. However, I cannot get the flash-player ...
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Good Virtual Printers (with cropping) for Windows and Linux

I'm interested in a virtual printer that would allow me to: preview the stuff that I'm about to print, and remove some pages allow printing multiple pages per sheet, removing white margins of pages ...
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Fedora 10 setting up HPLIP for HP Deskjet F4488

I had set up a newly purchased HP F4488 using HPLIP, I installed it on my Fedora 10 desktop and it worked fine for the past 2 days. Suddenly, it is failing to print. The scanner works and the ...
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Windows can see Ubuntu Server printer, but can't print to it

I have an old desktop that I'm trying to set up as a home backup/print server. Backup was trivial, but am having issues getting the printing to work. The printer is connected to the server running ...
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Printing via Adobe Reader under Linux and CUPS

I have a Gestetner printer, installed via CUPS and working under other pdf readers like Evince. However, with Adobe Reader, I get an error: lpq : Gestetner : unknown printer lpstat -a lists the ...
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How do I print a bunch of OpenOffice.org documents at once?

With Microsoft Word on Windows, I can select a bunch of documents, right-click, and select "print". There doesn't seem to be any such option for OpenOffice.org running on Ubuntu 9.10. I have a folder ...
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Okular extremely slow when printing?

I'm using Okular to view PDF files with KDE. I'm quite happy with it, the only problem is when printing a file: after selecting "Print" or "Print preview" from the file menu, Okular freezes for about ...
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How do I get a network printer installed in ubuntu 9.04?

My girlfriend's work computer now has Linux on one of the partitions, and for the most part it's running fine--except that I can't seem to get the network printers configured right. There are two of ...
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Printing from a Linux using an Acer Aspire Netbook

A friend asked me to check why their Linux Acer Aspire netbook can't print to their HP printer. When I plugged in the USB cable, the a "balloon" popped up on the netbook saying it was installing the ...
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How to print a large page on multiple smaller pages?

How can I print a larger page (A3) on multiple (two) smaller pages (A4)? This is sometimes called "poster printing", since the objective is to join the smaller printed pages together to form a larger ...