This is because your printer requires a windows only driver that will not
run under linux. That printer has no onboard processing capability at all
and requires the CPU to do all formatting and send the data in a proprietary
format. It will not run with Linux at all.
-----Original Message-----
From: Phil Deane <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: linux-newbie mailing list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, October 26, 1998 11:29 PM
Subject: I need Printer help
>Hello again, my little fountains of knowledge :)
>
>The on going saga of my printer is at another deadend. Fortunatly this
>time I think it is a small problem.
>
>For those of you who havn't heard me moan and groan fo about a week, I
>have a lexmark 1020 coloutr inkjet printer which I have been trying to
>get to work to no avail.
>
>ok The current agenda. I installed apsfilter and now seemingly should
>have a printer that works. I can get jobs to go to the printer queue,
>(woohoo) but they don't seemt o be coming out of the printer.
>
>To get them to the queue I use the lpr command. The problem is that when
>i type lpq to see what is going on, I see the jobs but it tells me
>WARNING: no deamon present
>
>I have read the man pages for all the lp* commands <Like the good little
>linux nerd I am :)> and tried the lpc restart all command, but they do
>not seem to work, for all type s of print what happens is that it saiys
>no deamon to abort, demona started, but it still says that there is no
>deamon present.
>
>I am sure I am doing something wrong, like maybe a command to print the
>queue, but as far as i can see nothing is wrong, As i have said i have
>read the Howto's the printing usage howto and all the man paes I have
>tried using lpd lpr lpq lpc and all the other lp* commands but nothing,
>except a rapidly expanding print queue
>
>Please of Guru's of Linux, someone help me get this sorted, so I can
>annoy you about my scanner next :) <I bet you are all looking forward to
>that one>
>
>Thanks for the help, and I am in a stupid mood, which explains the
>narritive of the email
>
>Phil
>ps For those readers who cannot wait for the next exciting installment
>of this nerds dream to have everything sorted on his system, The scanner
>is a Mustek ScanExpress 6000 P so if anyone knows any details could they
>please let me know?? :)
>
>Thanks
>
>
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>Philip Deane MA Psychology(Soon!)
>University Of Dundee
>Perth Road
>Dundee
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>
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