Thanks for the suggestions... did: yum install gimp-print setup I am using the parallel port... did ls -l /dev/lp0 it is there... did cat /var/log/dmesg + | grep lp0 nothing there... configured printer with the gimp-print driver then removed the printer and reconfiguried with gimp-print-ijs neither worked! no printer output... I have tried cat /etc/hosts > /dev/lp0 also... no output... Other thoughts???? Thanks for your help! Lynn Alan Dayley wrote: >On Thursday 31 March 2005 09:45 pm, Craig White wrote: >> yum install gimp-print >> >> setup or system-config-printer >> >> My thinking is that your first problem is connection. Is this USB? Is >> it connecting to USB? >> >> what's output from >> ls -l /dev/ttyUSB* >> cat /var/log/dmesg | grep USB > >I second this advice. Find out if the computer even knows you are >connected. > >> ---- >> Fry's was selling refurbished HP 7110's for $199 >> >> Great printer/fax/scanner/color copier combo >> >> cheap printers / inexpensive cartridges aren't the way ink jet printers >> are sold. The cheaper the printer, the less ink in the cartridges and >> thus the more per page - pay me now or pay me later philosophy. I think >> Gillette perfected the formula in the 60's by giving away the razors. >> Bic rained on their parade. Bottom line, cheap ink jet printers are >> never cheap. > >Before my wife went digital with her photos and had to have a nicer >printer, we got alot of use out of an Epson C40ux. USB. $5-6 ink >cartridges online, $12-ish local. Just works with Linux. My kids have >it now. I don't know if they are discontinued or not. It was $50 bucks >brand new when we got it. > >But, don't buy a new one till we get the one you have talking. > >Alan >--------------------------------------------------- >PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: >http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > __________________________________________________________________ Switch to Netscape Internet Service. As low as $9.95 a month -- Sign up today at http://isp.netscape.com/register Netscape. Just the Net You Need. New! Netscape Toolbar for Internet Explorer Search from anywhere on the Web and block those annoying pop-ups. Download now at http://channels.netscape.com/ns/search/install.jsp --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss