How do I Install Dell 1700 Laser Printer under Fedora Core 4?

[ctlmd]

I'm trying to install a new Dell 1700 Laser Printer on Fedora Core 4. It's recognized under Queue type, but the drivers offered under Dell are M5200 and S2500 only. Why is that? Neither one of those seems to work. Is there another driver that will work?

[banzaikai]

Heh.

After searching for the model on Google, I found this:

This is a PostScript Level 3 printer with 89 scalable PCL fonts and 91 scalable Post Script fonts included. It works with all versions of Windows and many versions of Linux.

So, you just need to select the "Printer Driver" tab, "Generic Types" (scroll to top), and then "PostScript" (scroll to near bottom) in your printer config.

You have the option of usb or parallel on this one, so I'm not going to guess if it's usb://dev/usb/lp0 or /dev/lp0. FC4 most likely can find it just fine.

banzai "Porn^H^HstScript" kai

[ctlmd]

It's showing //dev/usb/lp0, and I put in "PostScript", but I get nothing when I try to print a CUPs test and it takes a few seconds, says the job's completed, but again nothing when I print a test with Office.

[banzaikai]

Okay, now you need to load up the PPD into cups. Now, when I went looking for it, I found this little gem (http://www.linuxprinting.org/pipermail/general-list/2005q2/006410.html).

Turns out this thing also does PCL-6. Give that a shot and see what happens.

If that fails, just find the PPD file off the driver CD and copy it into the /etc/cups/ppd directory. It'll look like DL1700.PPD, and it's best to use the WinNT version if there is no *nix in there. Also, the 1700 may be a re-badged Lexmark Optra E310/312 series. You can find this at LinuxPrinting.org.

You may have to enable the PostScript from the printer's menu or something. Play with the setup there, and see if it can push out a test page. If so, then the problem is with the driver/PPD or queue setup.

banzai "PCL-5" kai

[ctlmd]

Thanks! :)