Re: [expert] Odd printer problems

2000-04-05 Thread Marcos Dione
On Mon, 3 Apr 2000, Monte Milanuk wrote: > No, this printer isn't _that_ old. I think it was > purchased about a year and a half ago. It is an inkjet > printer, but it does seem like the wheels or rolls or > whatever feeds the paper thru aren't quite running the same > speed. But again, how wo

Re: [expert] Odd printer problems

2000-04-03 Thread Monte Milanuk
No, this printer isn't _that_ old. I think it was purchased about a year and a half ago. It is an inkjet printer, but it does seem like the wheels or rolls or whatever feeds the paper thru aren't quite running the same speed. But again, how would that be linux specific? Monte --- "Brian T. S

Re: [expert] Odd printer problems

2000-04-03 Thread Brian T. Schellenberger
That really *is* odd. Are you sure that this is consistent, reproducable behavior? Is this an ancient printer, perhaps? I had an old one that could be either tractor-fed or sheet fed (like a typewriter), and if switched into sheet-feed mode it would do that. Is it possible that the linux driv

[expert] Odd printer problems

2000-04-02 Thread Monte Milanuk
O.k. here's the scenario: Linux-Mandrake 7.0 (GPL) installed on a Dell OptiPlex GX PIII-500 w/ 384MB RAM Printer = Epson Stylus 640 Linux-Mandrake is one of the few distro's that got my printer to work the first time, w/ no arcane wand waving and editing of /etc/printcap, or other nasty files.