my printer may have died

[Ted Ozolins]

Bonez wrote:

>Help:
>
>I went to print to my trusty HP laser jet iii and it stopped responding. 
>
>I am not sure if I have sent it some weird command that makes it not talk to 
>my system any more (caldera 3.1) but it has printed fine for the past several 
>months. Now, neither Windows nor Linux will print to it. 
>
>How do I test it to see if the communication is there? 
>
>Scott
>
>  
>
Check /var/log/messages  look at the section where it probes the 
parallel port and see if it detects the printer on that port (make sure 
that the printer is on prior to rebooting)

-- 
Ted Ozolins (VE7TVO)
Westbank, B. C.

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