Jon Doe wrote:
>
> On Friday 16 February 2001 12:43 am, s loudly grumbled:
> > Ok, what's the trick? :)
> >
> > I've tried through cups. I've downloaded a 'driver' from linuxprinting and
> > followed directions. What is the trick to get it to work? It is supposed
> > to be "perfectly" supported, so I know that there must be a way. But when
> > it sends a test page to it's daemon, I get the big nothing.
> > Tia,
> > -s
> >
> > Mandrake 7.2
> > cups-1.1.3-13mdk
> > GNU Ghostscript 5.50
> > gimp-1.1.25-12mdk
>
> i had the same problem, and found that if you configure and have lpr starting
> up at boot then cups won't work. After I removed lpr it worked fine.
>
> --
> Registered Linux User #181996
And I got mine to work by setting the postscript to "Type 1" using
SPAdmin (the default is type 2)--run spadmin as root. Give it a
try--can't hurt.