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Printing Problem, Deskjet 520. Need help, please.
Eyal Retter writes:
> Hi,
> Yes, I have read The Printing-Howto many time, including the Complete
> Installation Guide, and Running Linux from the LDP, and I still don't
> have a solution to my problem.
>
> I can't print.
>
> I enabled the parallel suport while compiling the karnel, and my printer
> reacts while booting by doing "reset".
> I get no error massages while booting, and I use the dj500filter
> configured using the control pannel of the Metro X-win, RedHut 4.00.
> Everytime I send something to printing, from x-windows or not,
> ghostscript or not, I get the error massage "waiting to the printer to
> be ready", and my printer start to do "reset" every 1 minute, but
> doesn't printa thing!!
> I have no problems printing through dos nor win95. OS whith I like less.
> Please help me. I'm getting desprate.
What happens if you kill lpd & cat something to /dev/lp0, or /dev/lp1,
or whatever parallel port you happen to have the thing attached to?
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Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il
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