On Fri, 20 Jun 2003 22:42:25 +0200 felipe leon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> This is one of the typical things of linux: things break without an > apparent reason. Lately I decide to migrate my struggle to redhat 9. I > bought a new printer (hp deskjet 3820) and it was detected right and > configured right with the appropriate driver and so on. I was happily > printing for several days but then ""suddenly"" the printer starts to > abandon printing jobs halfway "telling it has no paper" until finaly > the jobs don't go through at all and stay "eternally" on the printing > queue. > > What can be possibly wrong?? the only thing I did was to change an > option of the driver to "draft,grayscale,etc, etc" to save some ink > and even after this change the printer was working fine and I was very > happy because the printer was fast and saving ink. > Does anybody have any idea of what could be going on?? and an innocent > question: my logic says that if something is configured and working > fine, unless I break it, it should continue like that! Why?? it has to > just stop working? do I have to become an expert on linux (to be > slaved on solving broken things) in order to more or less efficiently > use the operating system?? Ummm........the printer is broke? It happens, ya know? It does it in Winders, too. -- If it was easy, you probably did it wrong. -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
