If you have a color printer and it is being identified as black and
white, then I think that the printer identification must not be correct.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| Thank you fou your help. Ans thanks too for all other gays that try to give
| advise. Infortunately, because some mail problems I only could receive this
| one.
|
| Nevertheless, Tom, I couldn't do what you say. This is because, on
| installation, Mandrake identifies very well my print and sugests (correctly,
| I guess) that I use as filter print Desject/Deskjet Plus. The problem is
| that this filter have no options to colour bit, I mean, this have only a
| 'default' option. So I can' t make any change at all. I guess that there is
| nothing to do except wait to another Linux Mandrake.
|
| Thanks
| Alvaro Nunes
|
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: "Tom Berkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Saturday, March 18, 2000 4:09 AM
| Subject: Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
|
|
| > Color works fine. Fire up printtool as root and select your printer then
| > edit
| > In the print filter there is a selection for the color bits. You
| > probably took the default 8 bits which will give you a great b&w printer
| > with 256 shades of gray. Select 24bit color and you should enjoy some
| > nice color output.
| >
| > Tom
| >
| > Alvaro Nunes wrote:
| > >
| > > Hi
| > >
| > > Can you make color prints or only black & white? I ask this because I
| have a
| > > Deskjet 970Cxi and only prints on B&W.
| > >
| > > Thanks
| > > Alvaro
| > >
| > > ----- Original Message -----
| > > From: "Tom Berkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| > > Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:55 PM
| > > Subject: Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
| > >
| > > > I have an HP Deskjet 895 with USB and parallel cables attached
| > > > simultaneously. Works fine but when I print from Win98 thru the USB
| > > > cable and then reboot to linux and try to use the parallel cable
| > > > connection, the printer must be powered off before I attempt any
| printer
| > > > access or I have to reboot again after cycling the printer power to
| make
| > > > the printer work with linux.
| > > >
| > > > Tom
| > > >
| > > > Norman Carver wrote:
| > > > >
| > > > > Printer is now working via parallel port. Problem
| > > > > appeared to be due to having both the usb and parallel
| > > > > cables attached to the printer. Win98 has no problem
| > > > > with this with the Epson, but Linux appears to--no
| > > > > output as I mentioned in earlier post. While we had tried
| > > > > disconnecting this cable and rebooting before (without
| > > > > success), we may not have shut printer down in between
| > > > > as we did this time. So usb cable has been removed.
| > > > > Still a bit hard to understand how this can be the issue.
| > > > > If the Epson works fine with both attached in Win98, why
| > > > > won't it work under Linux?
| > > > >
| > > > > Anyway, my friends setup is a bit closer. Now if we can
| > > > > just get X configured nicely for his Rage Pro Turbo.
| > > > > He is getting ghosting, which I gather implies improper
| > > > > settings. Perhaps will post on this later if we cannot
| > > > > make progress.
| > > > >
| > > > > Thanks,
| > > > > Norm Carver
| > > >
| >
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