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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