printer hell

[Neil Woolford]

At 21:47 15/11/04, you wrote:


>But I also can't get my HP Desk Jet 500c to work. This is odd as it's
>worked fine with Suse, Mandrake, Fedora.
>
>It's set up, but when I send a job to it, it grabs the paper from the
>tray, but stops, pauses for ages, then prints a line of garbage every
>minute or so.

I've just set up an Epson CX3200 under Ubuntu.  I had a similar problem, 
with the printer
just form-feeding repeatedly and constantly rather than printing anything.

The problem was down to using a generic driver rather than the exact one 
for the printer.
Ubuntu's printer setup isn't comprehensive 'out of the box'.

I had to add the gimpprint drivers to solve the problem.  Not just the 
gimpprint stuff with the
initial distribution, but also the cups versions - cupsys-drivers-gimpprint and
cupsys-drivers-gimpprint-data.  (These are unsupported packages from Universe.)

With them installed, I was able to find the driver version which makes the 
printer work excellently.

Hope this may help.

Neil 
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