Re: Printing help, please.
On Mon, Aug 18, 2003 at 09:20:24AM -0500, Wathen, Metherion wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am having trouble getting my printer to function under Debian.
> First off, my printer is a Lexmark 1020 color inkjet.
> I installed Cupsys, cupsys-bsd, and a few other cupsys related packages.
> I installed the ppd file for my printer from the Linuxprinting.org site.
I take it the 1020 isn't supported directly out of the package?
Where did you place the .ppd file? When you used the localhost:631
interface to set it up was the ppd file recognized? Did you test the ppd
file for errors? 'cupstestppd /etc/cups/ppd/name_of_file.ppd'
You might consider running cupsd in debug mode (in the conf file) and
looking at the output for clues...
> I rtfm'd several times and I'm still getting nowhere, lpstat shows my printer
> as existing, the boot-up screen shows my printer as attached to lp0 and
> gives the correct make & model.
> I am using wdm for my display manager but didnt think that would have
> any affect.
I don't recall what the packages do in setup, but you might check whether
/etc/printcap correctly points to /var/run/cups/printcap.
HTH,
Kenward
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