I had a similar problem with my BJC-5000. I think it has to do with the
printer. When I connected my HP Officejet, it printed like a champ. I
rebooted to DOS and tried to print from the DOS prompt and nothing came out.
My guess on the 5000 is that it is a win printer- similar to a win modem.
The control software resides in Windoze not on the printer so it will not
print from any OS other than Windoze.
Try to dump something to the printer from dos (not a dos box under Windoze).
If this works, there may be something wrong in Linux, if it doesn't, it's a
printer issue.
Anyone want to buy a used BJC-5000?
-Original Message-
From: Audrey Beck [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, February 21, 2000 3:50 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] Cannot Print
Abdoul Da Man wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> I am using Mandrake 6.1 and everything is fine.
> but I cannot print. I have a cannon BJC-2010 and
> a Microtek scanner.
>
> When I do:
> $lpr filename
>
> It's said something about connection refused but the
> job is queued. I checked the lpd and it's running.
>
> Thanks.
Try connecting just the printer and see if you can print. In KDE, open
a console window and type "printtool" (without quotes). Try using
printtool to reconfigure the printer and print test pages.
