Re: Installing a printer

2004-09-29 Thread Joris Huizer
Byron Nilsen wrote: This must be a well-worn question. I just installed woody. The installation did not stop to inquire about my specific printer make/model which is an older (ca 1990) Canon BJ-200ex. It did install a generic dot-matix driver which works for ASCII text, and as near as I can t

Installing a printer

2004-09-29 Thread Byron Nilsen
This must be a well-worn question. I just installed woody. The installation did not stop to inquire about my specific printer make/model which is an older (ca 1990) Canon BJ-200ex. It did install a generic dot-matix driver which works for ASCII text, and as near as I can tell, several PostSc

Re: installing a printer

2002-10-29 Thread Travis Crump
Stephen Gran wrote: i recently have attached an hp710c printer to the lpt1 port. and i do not have any set-up cds, floppies, etc. Be aware that lpt1 = lp0 in linux. Real geeks begin couning at zero (^8. You shouldn't need any drivers for this printer. I think lpr, lprng, and CUPS all have go

Re: installing a printer

2002-10-29 Thread Stephen Gran
This one time, at band camp, Sandip P Deshmukh said: > hello all! > > this is a question that comes from a windows user shifting to linux. > > i have debian 3.0 installed, up and running. > > i recently have attached an hp710c printer to the lpt1 port. and i do > not have any set-up cds, floppie

installing a printer

2002-10-28 Thread Sandip P Deshmukh
hello all! this is a question that comes from a windows user shifting to linux. i have debian 3.0 installed, up and running. i recently have attached an hp710c printer to the lpt1 port. and i do not have any set-up cds, floppies, etc. windows way of 'installing' the printer would be to add pri

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-19 Thread ben
On Saturday 19 January 2002 02:49 pm, dman wrote: > On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:50:53PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: > | I have set up a printer using CUPS called "laser". Its actually a > | Brother Laser printer connected to a windows machine across my network. > | It works great from within KDE

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-19 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 09:50:53PM +, Alan Chandler wrote: | I have set up a printer using CUPS called "laser". Its actually a Brother | Laser printer connected to a windows machine across my network. It works | great from within KDE. | | However, I have installed lyx - to try it out.

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-19 Thread csj
On Fri, 18 Jan 2002 21:50:53 + Alan Chandler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > However, I have installed lyx - to try it out. This is NOT a kde/qt > application - I think its a gtk. It running in a kde window. When I want to > print it pops up a dialog box with a blank text box for me to

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-18 Thread Alan Chandler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 18 January 2002 9:19 pm, dman wrote: > get the 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client', 'cupsys-bsd', > 'cupsys-driver-gimpprint', 'cupsomatic-ppd', and 'cupsys-pstoraster' > pacakges. (I think at least some of them aren't in potato) The CUPS > printing

Re: Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-18 Thread dman
On Fri, Jan 18, 2002 at 08:11:28PM +0100, Claus Ladekjær Wilson wrote: | how do I install the filter for my hp 390 c ? get the 'cupsys', 'cupsys-client', 'cupsys-bsd', 'cupsys-driver-gimpprint', 'cupsomatic-ppd', and 'cupsys-pstoraster' pacakges. (I think at least some of them aren't in potato)

Installing a printer and using kde as a window manager

2002-01-18 Thread Claus Ladekjær Wilson
I run Mandrake normally - how do I install the filter for my hp 390 c ? This was my first install of Debian and I am impressed of performance. I run potato 2.2r4 How do I change window managers? And kde isn't on the cdrom's I guess? I would like to use a 2.4 kernel - how to install such a thing? -

Re: installing a printer

2000-10-09 Thread Dale Morris
I have my printer working now. Here's what happened and what I did: apt-get upgrade resulted in a newer version of printtool being installed (this is curious because there's only one version in unstable) I removed printtool and tried to configure apsfilter. Didn't work, got a message from cron that

Re: installing a printer

2000-10-09 Thread Dale Morris
I removed the printtool package and installed apsfilter, configuring it for my printer answering the questions asked. When I try to print a text file, here's the message I get: apsfilter: unsupported filetype english text from dlm or missing filter ! or perhaps you have to t

installing a printer

2000-10-09 Thread Dale Morris
I just upgraded to the latest version of printtool and now my printer doesn't work. I used to printtool to install my epson stylus color 600 in the past and it worked great, but now, it doesn't work. I removed the printer from the printcap, hoping to reinstall it, but there's some sort of bug in t

Re: installing a printer

2000-05-16 Thread Pollywog
On 16-May-2000 17:28:03 Daniel Reuter wrote: > Get the Printing-HOWTO at > http://metalab.unc.edu/mdw/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html > There, all the steps are described. In short: > 1. install printer spooling software (usually lpr or lprng) > 2. install filter software (magicfilter or apsfilter, woul

Re: installing a printer

2000-05-16 Thread Daniel Reuter
Hello Pollywog, On Sat, 13 May 2000, Pollywog wrote: > I did not configure a printer when I installed Debian. Is there a > tool to help me configure a printer now without reinstalling Debian? Of course you can configure a printer without reinstalling. The Debian way of doing things lets you do

installing a printer

2000-05-12 Thread Pollywog
I did not configure a printer when I installed Debian. Is there a tool to help me configure a printer now without reinstalling Debian? I am getting an Epson Stylus Color 740 and I will use the parallel connector until the 2.4 kernels are released. I know I will need to recompile my kernel with pr