hello. i am trying to install my old canon-bjc-240 printer under gentoo. I am sure it can work correctly cause it worked on rh 6.22 or 7.0 when i used it some years ago. i've read installation guide from gentoo.org and a bit of documentation to cups but i haven't found any explanation why does it doesn't work for me [i mean printer].
as in manual, i've mentioned, i've done: # foomatic-configure -s cups -p Canon-BJC-240 -c file:/dev/lp0 -n Canon -d gimp-print-ijs Btw. I have parport and parport_pc in my /etc/moudles.autoload. i've started gimp [i have gimp print installed of course] and file -> print. I've chosen Canon, set Letter -> A4, but after pressing Print-button my printer prints out some ascii postscript code :>. I found in Setup Printer that `lp -s -dCanon -oraw` is the command to print [i think that is correct] but no ppd file is given. I'm quite sure it don't have to be there but even if i put the full path to my canon's ppd it hadn't given any effect. the only way i can achieve positive effect printing non-ascii is TestPage from Cups www-interface. None of AbiWord, Ggv, Gimp works. I tried also to use bj200 driver from lp-website instead of gimp's one the same effect. I guess the problem can be about filters or rather some gs configuration, but I really can't find anything written about that in gentoo's manual and others i have. can anyone give me bright point-to-point algorithm how to set up my printer? PS: Since I give up using RH i still try to set up my printer on diffrent *nix boxes i have - without any effects [always using cups]. I have tried really hard to install it on debian for exapmle, but that time [since i've installed gentoo] i was dual-system and just switch do MS Windows to do some printing [it wasn't a problem cause i print a lot of pages buy very rarely] Now I have Gentoo, and one-system user - i just really *need* to have it working due to university classes started and i have big collection of materials waiting to print. -- my PGP public key available via $finger [EMAIL PROTECTED] or via my website http://daczkowski.civ.pl/daczkowski.pgp
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