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Metalhead01
10-15-2002, 10:42 PM
I finally managed to get Samba installed & CUPS configured. However, I'm having trouble printing anything. If I tell Linux to print a test page, the printer stays idle. I did a quick check of the wireless server's status, and it says the printer is idle, as well.
Do these work in Linux? Is there some network driver or config or Mystical Voodoo Printer Dance I need?
My specs:
Gentoo 1.2, 2.4.19 kernel
HP PSC 500 printer
Linksys Wireless Print Server WPS11 ver3
Hangdog42
01-11-2003, 12:57 PM
Well, I got mine to work. Sort of (more on that later)...
My set up
RedHat 7.2
Linksys wireless router
WPS11 print server
HP Deskjet 832C
I've got the WPS11 on a fixed IP address, so I entered the following line into my /etc/hosts file
10.0.0.10 SCXXYYZZ #Linksys wireless print server
the SCXXYYZZ is the ID number on the bottom of the WPS11.
I then started the GUI printer configuration utility and created a new printer with the queue name DeskJet (this can be anything though). For the Queue type, I set it as a UNIX printer (lpd queue) and set the server to SCXXYYZZ and the Queue to SCXXYYZZ_P1. I then selected the pcl3 driver for the HP DeskJet 832c.
Now this may be the important bit: In the RedHat GUI printer configuration utility, you have a tab that lets you change the driver options. By default, the "Convert Text to Postscript" was selected. I turned this off since my printer doesn't understand Postscript
The good news: I can now print ASCII
The bad news: I can ONLY print ASCII
I'm assuming that I can't print any graphics because the printer doesn't uncerstand Postscript, and somehow PCL isn't being used. If anybody has any ideas, I'd love to hear them.
Hangdog42
01-11-2003, 01:23 PM
I don't normally talk to myself in public, but I changed the driver from pcl3 to cdj880 and now everthing works perfectly. I can print text AND graphics.