Do you have terminal access? Meaning... do you have X? therefore you can install printtool.....its a .deb package (downloadable from debian site) If you haven't tried printtool... give it a go...
Mike ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mark Wagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:51 PM Subject: Printer Question > Hi all, > > Trying to get my printer working but having some problems with it. I > used to have an HP Laserjet 6L which I had working on an earlier > Debian Potato installation. Now I have a new installation and a new > printer. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 880. Still running > Potato. > > Anyway, I have lprng, gs-aladdin, and magicfilter installed as I did > on my previous installation. The device that the printer is showing up > as has seemed to have moved on me. It's now on /dev/lp0 (was lp1). > After configuring my printcap with magicfilgerconfig, I get this when > I print a file: > > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'esc880' > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 21:41:46.427 > Filter_status: lp is ready and printing > > Anyone know what this message means besides the obvious? I am also > unable to send a filer directly to the printer with cat. I would do a > backflip if I could just get garbage to issue from my printer, but it > doesn't seem to want to cooperate. > > Any ideas? I've seen several posts on printer issues over the last > week or two. However, they, nor what I could glean from the archives > seemed to improve my predicament. > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > -- > Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
