Oh dear, this does pose a problem. Well tried the generic PCL and PS no luck, then tried oki4w still no luck. This could be the deciding point of not using Linux as my desktop :( I will plod on trying to find a solution, which may be hard as a newbie. Any thoughts guys please shout, and no one say buy a new printer, it ain't a possibility. Cheers for your time Mark.
I assume it's too late to return the thing as "not fit for purpose" or some such? I see you're already active on the linuxprinting.org lists. I guess you probably checked cups.org and found no drivers available there either.
Are you able to see on the device or in the manuals if the printer part is the same as any other standalone printer? What bad output did you get with your tests? If no output, are you sure it's actually communicating with the printer? Worst case scenario, does anyone know if it's possible to talk to this thing via a Windows system? It's a shame, but I'd hate to see it stop you using GNU/Linux at all.
Actually, it's not a shame: it's a bloody nuisance. You should be very very angry about these devices. It's not like we're short of printer protocols.