printing on linux
Hobbs, Timothy
Timothy.Hobbs at ca.origin-it.com
Fri Jun 18 10:00:09 EDT 1999
Chris:
When I needed to set up my HP laserjet 1100 (which emulated as an hp 4
(or 5)) I had to send an extra argument to the device to get the
emulation right. Otherwise it would just spool and sit.
I use Redhat and set up the printer through control panel where all the
arguments were there for the picking. I don't remember the argument I
used (which prob. wouldn't work for you anyway). If you can set it up
through control panel, do that. I don't know which distro. you're using
(and couldn't help you with anything other than Redhat anyway).
Hopefully this will give you a direction to go in.
>Tim Hobbs
>
>
>>Hello all:
>>
>>I have a question. I am trying to set up an HP laser jet 4m on my dell pc
>>running linux. I know all hardware works because it is a dual boot
>>machine and I can print from the windows partition. Everying seems to be
>>fine (daemon is running, print jobs go to the que) but the computer isn't
>>seeing the printer, ie, the lpc status is: "waiting for device lp to be
>>ready (offline?)"
>>
>>Is there some little switch somewhere to let the computer communicate with
>>the printer, ie, maybe the default is for the voltage on pin 3 to be sucha
>>and such bbut with hp printers it is pin 4 and I need to change it or
>>something, maybe a flag to set in printcap or some modification to
>>/dev/lp1??
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Chris
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