Get postscript printing working, and that is then your interface for printing from most applications, including StarOffice. I installed magicfilter, and picked the right filter for my printer. That did it for me. That and lpr... Mike On Tue, Oct 16, 2001 at 01:31:57PM +1000, Alanna White wrote: > I'm a newbie. > I've just installed Debian and I can't work out how to print. > > I've looked up the man pages and I've looked at my /etc/printcap file, > but I don't know what changes I'm supposed to make. > > When I print, all the connections work - the printer spews out words > that look like program instructions and they are stepped down across the > page. > > I am using Star Office 5.2 and it offers a dialogue for printer setup, > but I don't know what I should write. I have a Canon Bubble jet BJC > 255SP, but I don't know how to change the setting from "Generic > Printer". > > I have the feeling I've missed something really obvious...?? > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org > -- Michael P. Soulier <michael.soulier@home.com>, GnuPG pub key: 5BC8BE08 "Pretty soon, massive bloat is the industry standard and everyone is using huge, buggy programs not even their developers can love." -Eric S. Raymond, The Art of Unix Programming
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