wine users - Oct 2011 - printer doesn't work under wine

Just installed wine to my mepis11, and few programs under it, ... irfaview,
justbasic,...
everything works fine except printing, 
under wine, non of those  programs show any printers not a virtual .pdf or my 
HP1200.
any suggestion? I am total novice, please.

On Thu, 2011-10-13 at 14:13 -0500, Kepu wrote:
> Just installed wine to my mepis11, and few programs under it, ... irfaview,
justbasic,...
> everything works fine except printing, 
> under wine, non of those  programs show any printers not a virtual .pdf or
my  HP1200.
> any suggestion? I am total novice, please.
> 
The following should be in the FAQ. If it already is, it needs more
visibility. If not, it should be added. Either way id need to be easy to
find since this is a common question that has been asked many times.

Wine prints through CUPS. It expects CUPS to be available as an internet
printer, rather than using the 'lpr' interface. However, most distros
only enable the lpr interface by default and block internet printing.
So, to make CUPS available to Wine, you have to enable Internet
printing. Do the following by using your distro's  Print Server
configuration tool:
- enable 'Publish shared printers connected to this system' 
- enable 'Allow printing from the internet'

This lets CUPS accept Internet printing jobs from the local machine
regardless of which machine the printer is attached to or whether it is
a network printer: Wine sends the print job to the local CUPS service
which spools the document and then sends it to the default printer
regardless of whether that printer is locally attached, is attached to
another computer on your network, or is a network printer.

You'll need to know the root password to do this. It also goes without
saying that you have previously set up CUPS correctly, which means
that: 
- you have set up CUPS to use your printer(s)
- you have set your preferred printer as the default printer
- you have tested that CUPS can successfully print the test page on
  this printer

Martin

Martin Gregorie wrote:
> 
> Wine prints through CUPS. It expects CUPS to be available as an internet
> printer, rather than using the 'lpr' interface. However, most
distros
> only enable the lpr interface by default and block internet printing.
> So, to make CUPS available to Wine, you have to enable Internet
> printing. Do the following by using your distro's  Print Server
> configuration tool:
> - enable 'Publish shared printers connected to this system' 
> - enable 'Allow printing from the internet'
> 
I know you've said this before, and I'm sure you had to do that for your
system, but it is by no means necessary for all setups. Printing from Wine has
always worked just fine out-of-the box for me, and CUPS is NOT set to either
publish shared printers or allow printing from the internet. IMO, this is the
case for most users, or we would see far more questions here about printing than
we do.

I change in   'System Settings/Printer Configuration/Local Printers/'
printer orientation to landscape an fit to printable arera, it worked,
but now only half of the page is seen, other half is outside of paper
Bottom of drawing is on middle of paper
The paper size is right .
What now, I feel lost