Marcia, This would be in the FWIW department. I'm a newbie myself and don't pretend to understand the ins and outs of printing.
I have a HP PSC 500 (all-in-one type printer) hung on my parallel port. It was configured and printing on LM 8.0. There were 3 drivers available for that printer in CUPS. I tested them all and setup a 'lp' and a 'lp1' using two of the choices. In the last month I did a 'clean' installation of LM 8.1, including updates of CUPS and CUPS drivers. I ran through the CUPS installation process in the installation menu (you can do this from within the Mandrake Control Center after the fact as well). I selected the printer using my preferred driver and did a test page. Everything was OK in terms of the test. However, from any application (and from a desktop drop) I was getting garbage out (symptoms the same as you described in your original note). I was stuck until I discovered that the the new version of cups-drivers had added another choice to the list. I chose it. All print tests were passed and, more importantly, it prints from any application. I have no idea why the old drivers no longer work. So my questions. Can you configure the printer and send it a test page? If so, consider trying all the available drivers for your printer (or similar printers) to see if you can get around the problem. Terry Smith Marcia wrote: > > Dear Linus, > > Thank you for your advice. It did not work for me although I may not have > done everything correctly. Could you send me your exact steps? Did you use > cups again or change the spooling? I am still quite the newbie in some areas. > I installed lpr because it was not installed before. I wonder if I could just > skip cups and use lpr or pdq instead. Would anyone be able to give me the > steps for that? > > How do I change the spooling system from cups to lpr without reinstalling? I > really do not want to do that again. I have heard that lpr for spooling has > cleared up problems. > > Does anyone here have Epson Stylus Color that is printing fine in 8.1? If you > do could you tell me what you did? > > Any help will be greatly appreciated. I have no printing at all and my > husband and I both need it desperately. He has not been fond of Linux anyway > and I do not want to give him more reasons to not like it. > > Thanks for any help. > > Sincerely, > > Marcia > > On Tuesday 27 November 2001 10:34 pm, you wrote: > > <snip> > > > > > Thank you for your suggestions. The lpq command tells me that xpp is > > > ready and printing with an active job listed that belongs to me. > > > Unfortunately the job is not printing. That is the problem. The strange > > > thing is the printing worked for a couple of days although it needed > > > tweaking for quality. Then out of the blue it stopped working. Has anyone > > > had a similar situation that they were able to fix? Thanks for any help. > > > > Yes, I've had similar experiences. The only way that I've been able to > > recover was to delete all instances of my printer and reinstall the printer > > drivers from scratch with PrinterDrake. I gave the printer a new "name" > > and used the new name. I know there must be a better way, but when you're > > desparate, anything that works... good luck! > > > > Linus > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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