On Tuesday 31 December 2002 17:39, you wrote:
> Maybe the Suse guru's here can help with this one.
>
> I went over to a new SLUG member's home today to hopefully get his
> printers working in Linux.
> 1) Epson 680 (Correct me if I'm wrong here Doug) connected via USB
> cable.
> 2) HP DeskJet 1000C connected via parallel port.
I just had a similar problem which I successfully solved. First, check here:
http://hardwaredb.suse.de/index.php?LANG=en_US
>
> Using the YAST2 configuration tool I setup both printers. SUSE said that
> the Hp wasn't fully supported and may need to be manually adjusted. The
> Epson, printed 1 test page perfectly, but never printed another page
> after that. Even using the yast tool again. It would try to print, and
> the print head would move back and forth but all the pages were blank
> when they came out.
>From the suse data base you would find that the HP1000 is Not supported at
all. However, the Epson Sylus 680 is fully supported. So, for now, the
HP1000 is just a paperweight. Let's look at setting up the Epson 680.
>
> The HP would accept print jobs but nothing ever printed.
As is to be expected.
>
> I had my laptop running Redhat 8.0 with me, so I hooked up both
> printers, the worked perfectly in redhat using LPD.
But LPD is likely using a generic driver, so it will print, but you are not
getting the full functionality of that printer from the generic driver.
> Suse was using CUPS.
Yes, and CUPS has been known to get corrupted by a bad install or patching.
So, I suggest you reinstall cups, cups-client, cups-libs. and cups-drivers.
Remove the old cups config, then reconfigure the printer. Be sure that the
usb modules are loaded and you don't also have a usb problem.
>
> Can anyone help Doug out? He really wants to fully switch to Linux but
> can't till he get Staroffice6 printing.
Remember, that StarOffice has its own printer administration. While SuSE may
support the printer, SO may only have a generic driver available.
Smitty
> While there I got Doug signed up on the SLUG list so he should be seeing
> this :)
>
> Take care,
>
> Seth
> seth@opentechinc.net
> 727-919-1598
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