On 22-Aug-2001 Bruce E. Harris wrote: > I have tried everything and can not get my printer to work with MK 8--it did > for a time under 7.2 until I upgraded cups. I never has this printer or my > pervious, Canon BJC 6000 work under MK 8. > > I have a Epson Stylus Photo 870 connected to my parallel port and tired USB. > It did work with USB, but painfully slow and very faint--totally unusable. I > tried the web interface with cups and I see the printer there but cant get it > to print. I tried KCUPS and that is how I got the USB to work (sort of) but > it will not see my parallel port. Under Mandrake Control Center, Hardware, > Hardware, I see a printer icon, but nothing identified for it, as if it is > empty. Under Printer, I try to set it up but get an error saying lp not > ready. Then I delete the printer and reinstall and still wont print. It acts > as if my parallel port is not there. But this printer works great under Win95 > attached to the parallel port. But all the software I use is Linux, so that > point is really mute. > > What else can I try? > > This problem is getting critial since I need a working printer for my new > job. > I got similiar problems with cups so I switched back to lpd. I uninstalled the cups packages, installed the lpd packages then I downloaded printtool from RedHat (either hasn't Mdk got printtool anymore it just work with cups). Then I configured my printer with printtool just as I did in LM 7.1 and it worked fine. You should check the lpr, lprm, lpq commands IIRC they are symbolic links that need to be adjusted if you switch to lpd. Gregor ---------------------------------- E-Mail: Gregor Maier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 23-Aug-2001 Time: 09:10:17 ----------------------------------
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