I also have a USB printer, an hp deskjet 825c, to be exact. I was successful using CUPS, but I did have to play with the drivers a bit in order to get it to function. I wound up using the default HP Deskjet driver and it worked like a champ.
If you are using debian, the package cupsys-bsd is nice because it gives you the lpr/lpq/lprm set of command line tools. On Thu, 26 Sep 2002, Ryan wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Thursday 26 September 2002 12:31 pm, Mark Williams wrote: > > Greetings, LUGOD > > > > I'd like to use my Epson Stylus Photo 820 via USB with Linux. I've got USB > > printer support compiled as a module and loaded, and I've followed the > > instructions for setting up lpdomatic with lprng. lpr elicits nothing from > > the printer. So if anyone else successfully prints using a USB printer, I'd > > be very interested to hear how it's done. Thanks for your time, > > I got mine working in cups, using the cups web interface. > > - -- > PGP/GPG Fingerprint: 3B30 C6BE B1C6 9526 7A90 34E7 11DF 44F3 7217 7BC7 > On pgp.mit.edu, import with `gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-key 72177BC7` > Also available at http://www.cal.net/~ryan/ryan_at_mother_dot_com.asc > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) > Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org > > iD8DBQE9k7cyEd9E83IXe8cRAjgSAJ9DhvvqF3z1utdut2RW1FJeTmtxIACfQB44 > fVCGsJqV9A90fqgnR9AKCh4= > =kkjZ > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- R. Douglas Barbieri [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.dooglio.net vi: "The way God meant for man to edit text files..." GPG Fingerprint: FE6A 6A57 2B95 7594 E534 BFEE 45F1 9E5E F30A 8A27 GPG Public key : http://www.dooglio.net/dooglio.gpg _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
