* Alanna White ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I'm a newbie. > I've just installed Debian and I can't work out how to print. > > I've looked up the man pages and I've looked at my /etc/printcap file, > but I don't know what changes I'm supposed to make. > > When I print, all the connections work - the printer spews out words > that look like program instructions and they are stepped down across the > page. > > I am using Star Office 5.2 and it offers a dialogue for printer setup, > but I don't know what I should write. I have a Canon Bubble jet BJC > 255SP, but I don't know how to change the setting from "Generic > Printer". > > I have the feeling I've missed something really obvious...??
Well; from my experience with SO 5.2, there isn't much to do there. Your system printer setup, on the other hand, needs to have that "stair-stepping text" corrected by inserting a carriage return at the end of each line. This is an option in the printtool utility that I had to use for my LaserJet, which did the same thing at first. If you're spewing raw postscipt out at your printer, it would look like a program, since postscript is, in fact, a programming language of sorts. So that needs to be fixed with an appropriate printer filter. StarOffice assumes that any printer it talks to is postscript, IIRC. I suppose it would be good to ask which Debian release you're using before recommending configuration tools? Cheers, Mike Pfleger There's seventy brilliant people on earth. Where are they hiding? "Yashar" -Cabaret Voltaire (off of "2x45")
