Re: [newbie] getting a printer to work with pdq

2000-10-05 Thread Carroll Grigsby
John: I've got a Brother HL-1040. Like you, I figured it would be useless when I moved to Linux. Happily, that wasn't the case. Following Brother's advice, I told Linux that I had an HP Laserjet III. It works - all that I gotta do is pick print, and the file prints. The one drawback is that the re

[newbie] getting a printer to work with pdq

2000-10-05 Thread John Hendrickx
I've managed to get my Brother HL-720 printer to work. I'm a bit surprised because I thought it was a Windows only printer. But a combination of pdq and a custom ghostscript file frow linuxprinting.org did the trick. The problem is, or was, that this only worked when I logged in as root. On my re