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Sent: Thursday, February 17, 2000 7:13 PM
Subject: [Cooker] Win Printers and Mandrake
> After reading an article that calls printers made to only work with
software
> for windows WinPrinters, I wanted to ask if there will be any added
support
> for them in the Mandrake distrobution. I have the HP 720C and after
having
> it recognised in Mandrake 7, I became frustrated that I could not use it
> until I read this article. Please let me know what I can do to get it to
> work and how you guys are working to get it to work in the later
> distrobutions. Thank you for the clairifaction of the install process.
> Kudos on my favorite distro!
To shorten what could become a very long reply, it is HP and not Mandrake,
that must supply the driver for your printer. At this time, I would suggest
that you sell the printer to someone who runs MS Windows exclusively and
purchase a printed supported in Linux, or copy the files to your Windows
partition and re-boot to Windows to do the printing. I have heard that some
are able to print by connecting to Windows box with the printer over a
network using samba. No matter what you do, contact HP and politely request
Linux support for your printer; they are supposed to be re-inventing
themselves nowadays and maybe they will listen.
Hoyt
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