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[Spencer Ogden <spencero AT mail.utexas.edu>]

First questions are, do you have a postscript printer? If not, have you set 
up printing under another distro?

Spencer

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 03:11 am, Roger Shaffer Jr wrote:
> Has anyone had any luck setting up printing in Sourcemage.  I've been
> working primarily with cups, but have tried gnulpr with no more
> success.  I have all the proper modules loaded.
>
> parport_pc             22024   1  (autoclean)
> lp                      6272   0  (autoclean)
> parport                25664   1  (autoclean) [parport_pc lp]
>
> and have changed the parallel port to /devices/printers/0 but still no
> response.  I can't even print a cups test page without it automatically
> being cancelled.
>
> My error-log lists it as:
> I [14/Aug/2002:02:48:53 -0500] Job 8 queued on 'hpdj682c' by 'baron'.
> E [14/Aug/2002:02:48:53 -0500] Unable to convert file 0 to printable
> format for job 8!
>
> I can 'cat' files directly to the port, but the printer doesn't know
> what to make of the data so it seizes up moments after starting.
>
> Any idea what I'm missing?  I think I have every possible (not lpr
> related) package installed, so I don't think it's a print filter.
>
> Thanks for any advice,
> Rog
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