Did you set up your printer with printerdrake or printtool?
Till
Vic wrote:
>
> Well ladies and germs, I snooped in the newbie and
> the expert archives and I saw some things about
> lpd but, not enough to inform me of what
> I need to do.
>
> I have an olllld HP Deskjet, just Deskjet
> nothing else after no number or anything.
>
> It is obviously a black and white printer
> but, I still wonder how to get the lpd
> running, I can dump text into the
> /dev/lp0 port and I'm running
> Mandrake 7.0-2
>
> So I cannot install KUPS or cups,
> can't upgrade just yet,
> I have some more issues to deal
> with.
>
> I think I am seriously missing something
> about the lpd daemon as it will not
> do anything, netscape print function just
> errors as: lpr lp lp printer unknown,
> is it possible to also use fonts with
> this printer?
>
> Thanks
>
> Vic
