Comment 4 for bug 284730

Thanks for reply. I should have mentioned yesterday that applications unrelated to KDE print perfectly routinely, e.g. Firefox. Thus, while I use kate for much drafting, I have to use gedit for printing.

The print system is the standard CUPS as installed by Kubuntu 8.10 on 2008-10-29.

bruce@Xenophon:~$ dpkg -l | grep cups
ii bluez-cups 4.12-0ubuntu5 Bluetooth printer driver for CUPS
ii cups 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - server
ii cups-bsd 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - BSD commands
ii cups-client 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - client programs (SysV)
ii cups-common 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - common files
ii cups-driver-gutenprint 5.2.0~rc1-0ubuntu1 printer drivers for CUPS
ii cups-pdf 2.4.8-1ubuntu1 PDF printer for CUPS
ii cupsddk 1.2.3-3 CUPS Driver Development Kit
ii cupsddk-drivers 1.2.3-3 CUPS Driver Development Kit - Driver files
ii cupsys 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-bsd 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-client 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-common 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii cupsys-driver-gutenprint 5.2.0~rc1-0ubuntu1 Transitional package
ii hal-cups-utils 0.6.17+git20080728-0ubuntu2 CUPS integration with HAL
ii libcups2 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - libs
ii libcupsimage2 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System(tm) - image libs
ii libcupsys2 1.3.9-2ubuntu4 Common UNIX Printing System (transitional package)
ii libgnomecups1.0-1 0.2.3-2build1 GNOME library for CUPS interaction
ii python-cups 1.9.41-0ubuntu1 Python bindings for CUPS
ii python-cupshelpers 1.0.5+git20080819-0ubuntu6 Python modules for printer configuration with CUPS
bruce@Xenophon:~$