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.
On Friday 24 May 2002 17:32, MJ Ray wrote:
Hi Mark,
Been looking around and still no luck, bloody windows proprietary things. Had the thing for a while now, it is great under windows but not what I want.
When going through the Yast2 setup, it autodetects the printer being on lp0, but fails to print anything via any print driver selected when doing a test.
It is a shame, my SuSe system rocks at the moment. Got all other hardware working including a USB scanner. Installed Openoffice which also looks quite good.
Decided to use Kmail over Mozilla's email client as Kmail comes with a spell checker, though Mozilla say's you can download one, I couldn't get it to work. Will look into address books etc at a later point.
Well better crack on, beer to drink :) Have a good one all.
Jamie
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.
On 24-May-2002 MJ Ray wrote:
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.
It is probasbly not too late, but unless he said *at the time of purchase* that he wanted it to run on Linux, he might be in for a bit of an argument. Computer supplies comapines have a history of ignoring, or trying to sde-step, the Sale of Goods Act. One generallly has to do everything inw rting and copy all correspondence to the local trading standards office.
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