[Techtalk] Printer trouble - minor breakthrough

[Tabatha Persad]

Conni,

Doubtful if this will help, but interesting, because I did note that you had 
a Canon and an Epson printer.

We have a Canon BJ-200e, which was a royal pain to set up in Mandrake 8.1 (I 
realize you are using RH).  The interesting thing was that after reading 
about foomatic and omni and all that stuff, what ended up working was setting 
a jumper on the printer which actually categorizes it as an Epson 24 pin, and 
VOILA, it printed fine, and I didn't use CUPS, I used KUPS (the KDE version), 
and that was on a Win2000 shared printer.  It didn't need foomatic or omni, 
just the Epson 24 driver.

As I said, not sure if that's helpful, but since the printers seem to be 
somewhat related I thought it might give you a lead or something!

Good luck!
Tabatha


On Sunday 28 April 2002 19:52, Conni wrote:
> I uninstalled all the print stuff again, then reinstalled it.  After
> racking my brain a while and reading the documentation, I went to GIMP and
> successfully set up the printer there.  I even printed a small image.  So
> gimp-print can make this stupid printer work.
>
> Still one problem, though: printconf-gui still doesn't list my printer,
> and there aren't any printers that it thinks is equivalent.
>
> I'd like to be able to print from, say abiword with this printer, or even
> use the better drivers from gimp-print for my old Canon (which works
> sufficiently for printing things like papers, but the edges are kind of
> fuzzy.)
>
> Conni
> befuddled, perplexed, etc.

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