I have tons of trouble too. At work I have an hp 5 and I can not print to it over the network. It is not obvious at all what to do when setting up printers. At home I have an Epson Stylus 800 that I can print to locally but only at 600 dpi and not the 1400 that it is supposed to. My friend has an Epson stylus 740 and it can not print at all. Thankfully it is possible to boot into NT to print. I guess Linux just is not intended for printing really.
Stephan Schutter
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Schussman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 1999 4:27 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] printing w/Mandrake 6 and bjc-2000
Hi-
First problem of the day is printing from Mandrake 6 with my Canon
BJC-2000. I don't get any kind of response from the printer when I send
jobs to it. Printtool identifies a printer on /dev/lp0, and indicates to
me that it is successfully sending test pages to it, but the printer never
does anything -- and yes, the printer is connected. lpc never show
any print jobs or anything getting through. Could I be missing a
package or something? I'd expect the printer to do something if it's
really receiving data, and I'd feel a little puzzled if it even printed
garbage; but at least I'd have a starting point. Any suggestions from you
folks? (And if I actually get the printer to do something, has anyone put
together ghostscript configuration for the bjc2000?)
Thanks -
-Alan
