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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?

-- 
Harvey J. Stein
Berger Financial Research
abel@netvision.net.il


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