Re: printing stopped working--any ideas?
On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 08:57:03PM +0000, thyrinn@attbi.com wrote:
> I have one of these printers. The only way I ever got
> it working was using gimp-print(?) and CUPS. lpr and
> all of that wouldn't work. Also with this setup the
> quality was awful. It would only do greyscale. When I
> hooked the same printer to a Win9x computer with the
> Canon drivers it printed just fine. The printer has
> since run out of ink and I haven't gotten around to
> spending another $35 for ink for the $80 printer. I had
> this working around 4-6 months ago.
And Adamm wrote:
>IMHO, for b/w printing that _will_ always work, try swaping your
>printer for HP DeskJet series - I have the old 500 and it works
>perfectly. Refiling the cartridge is cheap; can't complain.
>
>If you want good quality, look for a printer that is supported
>under Linux. Either it is PostScript or some other open
>standard.
Note that I can't even cat filename > /dev/lp0. Absolutely nothing
happens that I can see. Also, when I Print from Gimp (I have a CUPS and
gimp-print setup), then check "lpstat", I briefly see something in the
queue, then it disappears without any action to the printer. And this
was all working a month ago before I started messing with kernels; still
stumped; I thought I'd changed everything back to how it was!
But the important thing is I got color output just a few weeks ago.... I
believe it does work. I followed all the instructions at
www.linuxprinting.org (or at least I think all of them....).
Thanks,
Luke
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