printer hell
Baza
baza at themauvezone.fsnet.co.uk
Tue Nov 16 20:07:24 UTC 2004
> 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
>
OK, done that still no joy. I hope this is not a, 'show stopper', as I
really need to be able to print, and I don't want to dump Ubuntu in favour
of Suse 9.1
Barry
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