cups is what I usually use, it has 'foomatic' drivers that work for a ton of printers. unixprgrmr01@netscape.net wrote: >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 > > --------------------------------------------------- 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