Re: [artworks] UniPrint Printing Problem

  • From: Richard Ashbery <riscos@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: artworks@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 13:24:04 +0100

In article <b4676edb51.martin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Martin Wuerthner
<lists@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

[snip]

> I have tracked down this problem, and my first reaction was right:
> This is a !Printers bug. More specifically, it is a Castle "pop-up"
> !Printers bug (!Printers 1.7x, the version that is used on the
> Iyonix and the BeagleBoard/BIK/ARMini).

> The problem is that "pop-up" !Printers does not set the "File:"
> connection of the active printer correctly on start up if there is
> an unavailable USB printer. You can check for that by checking the
> "Printer control..." list. If it contains a printer with "USB"
> connection that is displayed as "Unavailable", then that entry
> stops the active printer (usually a different one!) from being set
> up correctly on start up.

An Interesting Oddity
--------------------------

Is the information presented by the Connections window reliable?

Now after a fresh reboot and with Printers loaded the window reports
UniPrintFS:192.168.0.2. However Show Printer$Path reports null:

Only when I click the UniPrint icon does Show Printer$Path report the
path correctly.

Richard

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