I beleive the DJ820 is a host based printer. In other words, it is VERY
difficult printer to set up and it is very fickle. It will not print
from a straight dos environment, and I beleive the same holds tru from
Linux, although I may be wrong.
Nathan Washor wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> I'm new to Linux, and been working on configuring my system. I have an
> HP Deskjet820Cxi, and I can't seem to get it to work under Mandrake 7.1
> I tried doing all the things on Sourceforge about dling the pnm2ppm
> stuff, and I can actually print a test page when under printtool. But
> when I go to print something under netscape or abiword nothing happens.
> I made sure the lpd was running, and restarted the cpu after doing all
> the pnm2ppm stuff. I've tried using the PrinterDrake utility too, but
> under that util, my Printer doesn't appear in the list. How strange
> that it appears in printtool but not the printdrake. This leads me to
> believe they read from dif files for the types of printers. Well anyway
> I think this has something to do with the problem. How can I get
> printerdrake to give me Deskjet820 series (PPA) as an option. It
> appears for printtool but not Madrake's Printdrake. Any help is way
> appreciated. Thx in advance.
>
> Nate
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