Hello sluggers, Recently decided to connect a HP Laserjet 1100 to an old Pentium 100 Rehat 6.2 box that I've got lying around.
For now I'd just like to get Linux to print to it, then share it across the network with Samba. I'm pretty familiar with Samba for file sharing, but this is the first time I've connected a printer to a Linux box, so please bear with me :-) I've tried to read as much of the Linux Printing HOWTO as possible, but I find the range of options confusing. So far I've done the following: 1. Attached the printer, executed LPD daemon and then run "printtool" under Red Hat 6.2 2. Created an entry under Printtool with the following properties: Name: LP Spool directory: /var/spool/lpd/lp File limit: 0 Printer device: /dev/lp0 Input filter: *auto* Laser Jet 4/5/6 - No postscript support Suppress headers: On 3. Attempt to test the entry by selecting Tests --> Print ASCII Test Page Printtool confirms that a job was spooled. And that's about it, no lights blink on the printer and no further messages appear. If I investigate the spool directory I get quite a number of files: cfA000elvis cfA004elvis cfA008elvis dfA001elvis dfA005elvis dfA010elvis lock cfA001elvis cfA005elvis cfA010elvis dfA002elvis dfA006elvis dfA011elvis postscript.cfg cfA002elvis cfA006elvis cfA011elvis dfA003elvis dfA007elvis filter status cfA003elvis cfA007elvis dfA000elvis dfA004elvis dfA008elvis general.cfg textonly.cf Not sure if I've selected the right filter under the Printtool, I went with a suggestion from another HP user on a Linux printing related Web site. Any comments or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Carl -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
