>>>>> "Drew" == Drew Parsons <dparsons@emerall.com> writes: Drew> On Wed, Jul 17, 2002 at 06:06:38PM +0000, Simon Ross wrote: >> Saw the last post about an Epson printer which got an excellent >> answer. :-) So here is my printing problem... >> >> Dell Inspiron 8000 Debian Woody kernel-2.4.17 Lexmark Optra E310 >> >> If anyone has a setup like this and it's all working. Then please let >> me know if you can help. >> Drew> Ooh, I fear you may be in trouble. Memory tells me the 310 model Drew> is Windows only (like the winmodems, software controlled). But Drew> maybe I remember wrong and its the model which works perfectly. Drew> Lexmark sells both kinds. That's the 210 (which I have), but there's a Ghostscript driver for it, so it actually works pretty well -- except no manual feed. The 310 seems to be a native PostScript/PCL printer, which is good. Drew> By the way, Lexmark's Linux support for Optra is in fact fantastic Drew> (apart from the Winprinter model, whichever one it is), Drew> they. provide full specs and everything. Drew> The page that tells you all about this kind of news is, quite Drew> simply, www.linuxprinting.org. Best printing support is found Drew> through the foomatic scripts. I think Debian has cupsomatic, Drew> which sets it up easily with CUPS. But I use lprng, not CUPS, the Drew> site has instructions on what to do for lprng too. If the printer is PostScript, you don't have to bother with foomatic. Just use a normal PPD file (there may be one on the printer's drivers disk, or you should be able to find one on the web). -- Hubert Chan <hubert@uhoreg.ca> - http://www.uhoreg.ca/ PGP/GnuPG key: 1024D/124B61FA Fingerprint: 96C5 012F 5F74 A5F7 1FF7 5291 AF29 C719 124B 61FA Key available at wwwkeys.pgp.net. Encrypted e-mail preferred.
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