Frans Ketelaars wrote:
On Wednesday 20 August 2003 07:19, Matthew Dunaway wrote:
I am using Mandrake 9.0 Power Pack. I would like to go M$ free. The
only thing stopping me is I can't get my Laserjet 1000 printer to
work. Does anybody know how to get this printer to work? I would love
to ditch Windows, but I won't if I can't get this printer to work. I
don't know diddly about Linux, hence being on the newbie list.
Can anybody help
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1000
And please don't send html mail :)
HTH,
-Frans
I had, at one time, purchased the same kind of printer, and found it
impossible to get working with my Mandrake system. I didn't find the
affore mentioned site to be any help at all. So, I did the next best
thing. I took the printer back to where i bought it from, and this time
purchased a REAL hardware printer. An HP 1200 LasarJet. The 1000 is not
a real hardware device and is also known as a win-printer disguised as a
hardware laserjet. It relies on software to do what real hardware
printers use their own firmware to do.
Try as i might I could not get this printer to work. I'm glad I took it
back because the printer I came home with hooks up on a parallel port
and has all the firmware it will ever need "inside" the device. And to
thing I only paid $120 for this beauty.
--
Mark
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