Dear Linus, Thank you for your suggestions. Unfortunately I cannot even get a test page to print now. Test pages were printing for awhile but not anymore. It is very strange, because everything worked at first then just slowly stopped working. I do not know what else to do. I think I would like to use a whole different printing system at this point but I do not know how to switch at this point. I want to stay away from reinstalling if I can.
Thanks for your help. I will continue to research and maybe will find an answer. Thanks very much for your help. Sincerely, Marcia On Wednesday 28 November 2001 01:08 pm, you wrote: > 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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