CentOS 6 & gnucash 2.4.15 Printing problems...

[Robert Heller]

At Wed, 6 Jan 2016 16:35:44 -0500 Fred Smith <fredex at fcshome.stoneham.ma.us> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, Jan 06, 2016 at 03:12:06PM -0500, Robert Heller wrote:
> > I recently upgraded my system to CentOS 6 and installed the version of gnucash 
> > in the EPEL repo (2.4.15).  Everything works properly, *EXCEPT* printing is 
> > weird:
> > 
> > I have a PostScript Laser printer (a small Brother B&W model) and when I went
> > to print some invoices, I had a problem: it sent PDF code directly to the
> > printer (the printer was not amused, nor was I). I am able to print to file
> > (selecting Postscript format output) and then sending the output.ps file to
> > the printer with the lp command.
> > 
> > What am I doing wrong?  Is there some preference or system setting I need to 
> > change? 
> 
> wrong printer driver? what model Brother is it? are you using the
> driver from Brother's web site, or one of the "mostly works" ones
> from the Fedora distribution?

I just updated the driver (updated the ppd file), and things seem to be 
working now.

> 
> > Printing otherwise (other apps) works fine (well, the only other app I have
> > used to print is the lp command), so I am assuming that CUPS is setup 
> > properly. 
> 

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