On Tuesday 07 May 2002 05:05, you wrote: > /WARNING, RANT MODE ON > Could someone please, please, please tell my why it seems every distro > of linux is such a pain in the a%^ when it comes to printing.
Historical - printing used to be extremely expensive & slow. It's really only now starting to be ironed out > I have played with Redhat, Mandrake 7.1,7.2,8.1 & 8.2, Caldera, and ELX, > and in EVERY CASE its an uphill battle to get a DIRECTLY attached > printer to work.It doesn't seem to matter whether it is an old > dotmatrix, an inkjet, or a laser; I've ALWAYS encountered problems. > /RANT OFF Mandrake is easily the easiest, IMHO, as they have embraced CUPS in all its glory.... > Current problem: > > Using 8.2 beta 3 beta, huh? If you're having issues, why not move to a supported distro (just a thought...) > My current source of grief is an IBM 4029 laserprinter. I have tried all > flavours of drivers, and even some HP and Lexmark drivers, and all I get > is garbage across the top of the page, and the printer has to be reset. > > The printer works fine under all version of windows. > > Ken According to LinuxPrinting.org <http://www.linuxprinting.org>, your IBM laserprinter is partially supported. Navigate from this page, as there is more than one 4029 model entered: http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi Basically, it looks like CUPS will handle your printer via either the generic PostScript driver for the model 4029 10P, or via gimp-print for the non-postscript version. Mandrake should make this pretty painless for you, either way.... just make sure CUPS is installed hth -- john in sydney ================================= Mandrake Linux 8.2 Kernel version: 2.4.17-5mdk Uptime: 20 hours 43 minutes =================================
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