Printing Question

[Gerald]

Ed,

thanks for the tip. However that does not work at least for me. While 
it does recognize my printer it does nothing. I can't print from OO or 
the test page. While I like many things about Linux it's pretty useless 
without the ability to print out my work, plus it's extremely 
frustrating. I'll get back to it again. But right now I have some work 
to do.

Thanks for all the help.


On Apr 30, 2004, at 9:07 AM, Ed Sutherland wrote:

> On Friday 30 April 2004 11:53, Clinton MacDonald wrote:
>
>> Printing problems are the bane of Yellow Dog Linux, or of almost any
>> Linux on any platform. People have had more success with solving them 
>> on
>> the Yellow Dog General mailing list, so I recommend you ask your
>> question there (we are, after all, all newbies here :-) ). Look in my
>> signature for directions to the General list.
>
> Setting up local USB printing with YDL was a snap, compared to doing 
> it in
> other distros. The trouble is when you get into CUPS.  But all a user 
> (well,
> almost every user) has to do is follow the online howto instructions, 
> which
> basically are find your printer, fire up printtool, create a new 
> printer,
> name it lp0, and test your printer.
>
> Ed
>
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