[moneydance] Printing

[Claude S. Sutton]

Keith:

I use a ThinkPad which goes every where I go.

So the printer at home was named by Ubuntu when I first set up.

So when I went to the office and hooked up to that printer, which is the
same HP model, Ubuntu renamed the printer at home HP 2175-1 and the one
at the office HP 2175-2.

I don't know if it is fixed, since it is 1:30 AM, but when I deleted
both printers and reinstalled the one here at home as HP 2175, it
printed.

So now the problem is how to get the hyphen out of the name.

Before deleting and reinstalling, I tried renaming the printers and
Ubuntu would have none of it.  It would rename them -1 and -2 as fast as
I could change them.

When I go to the office tomorrow, it will rename this printer HP 2175-1
and I will be in trouble again.

I tried naming this one HP 2175 Home, which I did when using W2K, but
Ubuntu will have none of it.

I expect you are using a laptop and that is how you hit on the hyphen
thing, so how did you resolve it?  I do have another model printer at
the office, but I prefer the HP 2175 as the other is not a color
printer.

If my guess is correct that you are moving a laptop from one site to
another, you also must have figured out a way to set up your dialer for
different ISP's.

I have two ISP's and I do not want to have to reconfigure from the
ground up every time I move.

Thanks for the help.  Very good.

CSSJR


On Fri, 2006-05-05 at 14:54 +1000, Keith Bates wrote:
> On Fri, 05 May 2006 00:22:53 -0400
> "Claude S. Sutton" <claudesutton at cognisurf.com> wrote:
> 
> > I can not get MD to print.
> > 
> > OS is linux Ubuntu 5.1
> > MD is current.
> > 
> > Java is jre 1.5
> > 
> > I know there was a thread on this recently, but at the time my OS was
> > W2K and I had no problem, so I trashed the posts.
> > 
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> > 
> > CSSJR
> 
> Welcome to the weird world of printing under linux and java.
> 
> Here are some suggestions that people have found to work or not:
> 
> 1. Make sure your printer name in CUPS does not contain a hyphen.
> 2. You might try a different version of java. I recently had this
> problem and I found that different version of java do different things.
> In your moneydance folder there should be a symlink called jre which
> points moneydance to your version of java. So that means you can have
> different versions of java installed and tell md which one to use. I
> have found that I can print OK under java version 1.4.2, but I couldn't
> with 1.5
> 3. Check your md printing settings. Under Printer Preferences there are
> option for using Java 1 or Java 2 methods. Try changing which one is
> selected.
> 4. Make sure your printer is correctly aligned with the earth's
> magnetic field and that you place freshly picked roses in front of your
> monitor. OK I'm just kidding about that one. But it seems quite
> arbitrary and dependent on some secret magical formula. 
> 
> Let us know what you find out about the magical secrets of your system!
>