Re: troubles running a printer on Mint17.3 "Rosa"
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On Tue, Jan 31, 2017 at 12:43:06PM +0100, albcares wrote:
> dear Sirs and Madams
> I'm afraid my question could be off-topic; but anyway I try all the same
> since Mint appears to have a strong relationship with Debian.
I'm myself no printer expert, far from that. Besides, I tend to avoid
CUPS whenever I can. So I'm not the most appropriate person to answer
your questions.
Still, a couple of tips:
> so, the matter is that I own an old laser printer Lexmark Optra e310. Few
> months ago I had to reinstall CUPS due to a bad mistake that made it
> completely out of service. After having restored CUPS I tried to join my
> printer;but although I got PPD from various sites as "nodevice.com" or "
> openprinting.org" none of them seems to run correctly.
- - What does "not running correctly" mean? Can you address your
printer from an application? Does it print anything?
- - Is your printer listed on the list of printers of your desktop
environment?
- - Most of the time there's a way to print a test page. Does that
work? Are the results "wrong"? In which way?
> Finally I set up the Optra as "generic" with PCL5; but this solution is
> quite unsatisfactory, too.
- - The printer prints, but it doesn't look good? In which way?
If you are able to answer some of those questions (or any other
you might come up with), this would help people willing to help
to focus their search a bit.
Regards
- -- tomás
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