On Thu, 20 Jan 2000, dagnir wrote:
> I've experience a number of weird things installing Mandrake 7.0 and
> have gone through the install 3 times and have managed to get past all but
> one problem. I can't get an SMB printer to work. I've tried the Mandrake
> configuration as well as Printtool. The printer is an HP600C that has
> worked fine with ever flavor of linux I've tried until now.
> The lpd daemon initalizes <OK> at boot. I've get the following
> response with lpc:
>
> [root@localhost /root]# lpc status
> lp:
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> no entries
> no daemon present
>
> I type lpd at the command line followed by ls > /dev/lp0 and it just
sits
> there. I've checked the lpd, lpc,lpr and lpq permissions. The printcap
> file is identical to a functional version on a backup. Samba is definately
> running and I can smbumount shared drives. Any help or direction is
> appreciated.
>
> Thanx Darrin
>
>
I had the same problem with my HP DJ 670C. Under printtool's input filter
selection popup, the print options included "Fast text printing (non-PS
printers only)?" as a default option. I unchecked the selection box,
saved the config and it came back to life.
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