Red Hat printing Problem

[Kevin O'Gorman]

I've been having a similar problem, so I'll just throw in my $.02
and hope someone can help.

I'm trying to replace RH7.1 with RH7.3.  I only got printing
working on 7.1 by completely replacing the printer stuff with a
fresh compile of LPRng.  I suppose I could do the same on 7.3,
but would prefer a way to use the distro as-is.

The actual printer is an HP LJ4M, on a parallel port of a
COL eD2.4 machine, running caldera's standard printer stuff.
Right now, the machine I'm upgrading dual boots 7.1 or 7.3,
but I run 7.1 all the time because the printer stuff isn't
sorted out yet.  I may have fooled with the Caldera printer
stuff; I don't remember whether on eD2.4 I still had to
take steps to keep it from running postscript files through
ghostscript to re-encode as Postscript to send to my printer.
In any event, the way it is now, Postscript is sent directly
to the printer.  I handle a lot of Postscript files, so this
suits me.

++ kevin



On Sat, Jun 29, 2002 at 06:04:53AM -0700, Tony Alfrey wrote:
> Printing (and sound cards) seem to be the "standard" setup problems.
> There are a variety of notes on the SxS site, there are How-To's about 
> printing at the linux documentation project
> http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Printing-Usage-HOWTO.html
> and my favorite source
> "Running Linux" (O'Reilly Pub.)
> 
> 
> On Saturday 29 June 2002 02:36 am,Shane A Broomhall wrote:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I have just put Red Hat 7.3 on my laptop after using SUSE for some
> > time. After Setup I am able to configure the laptop to see the
> > printer, and it is automajically recognised by the OS.  The problem
> > is that I am unable to get anything out of the que to the printer. 
> > LPD is restarted by the print config utility. I am hoping that
> > someone might be able to point me towards how to solve my problem,
> > not give me the answer but where it might be a good idea to start
> > looking.
> >
> > Thanks in advance.
> >
> > Shane Broomhall
> >
> > Brisbane Australia

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