Printing woes in mandrake 8.2

[Kevin Brown]

I use printtool under RH to setup the printers and then just use the LPR command
to print.

> > I too have trouble with printing using an HP laserjet 3P.  Finally gave up.

> >      Anyone out there having trouble printing with mandy 8.2? I have
> >      used the kde print tool and everything looks as if it should work,
> >      it just doesn't. I have verified that the printer works fine. It
> >      is an hp photosmart p1000. kde found the right driver in its list
> >      and applied it. It has a name and port address. I did however get
> >      a pop-up screen when finalizing the config that said:(in Kmail)
> >      kde has logeed a request to access local host on port 631 but
> >      requires a password. It brings up my local login name and when I
> >      use my password it kicks it back as invalid. Any Ideas on how to
> >      solve this?

> Sounds like your using the CUPS print system. Have you tried to use the
> generic LPD Unix print system?