RedHat Printing

[Stephen Andert]

Kevin,

RedHat8 was my first choice, but I was unable to get X to start in 7.3 or 8 
due to the very advanced age of my monitor.  I don't really want to spend 
anything on a newer monitor since I'm planning for this machine to be my 
database server and print server. I work with Oracle and I want a test bed 
at home to play with.  Basically when this gets up and running, I'll be 
logging in over my network usually from my laptop (next candidate for linux) 
or my work-at-home pc (unable to convert that one due to work requirements 
:(

I'm downloading the newer version of OMNI, hopefully that makes things work 
better.

Thanks
Stephen



>From: "Kevin Brown" <kevin_brown@qwest.net>
>Reply-To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>To: plug-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us
>Subject: Re: RedHat Printing
>Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 20:22:40 -0700
>
>Went to that site, they recommend OMNI version .7+ and RH7 comes with 
>pre-.5.x.  Guess you might want to upgrade to either a newer version of 
>Omni, or better yet, upgrade RH to 8.0 as it comes with .7.x
>
>http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/rpm2html/search.php?query=omni&submit=Search+...&system=redhat&arch=
>
>>I don't know if I need an intro to linux printing or just a push in the 
>>right direction in getting this setup correctly.  I've tried RTFM'ing 
>>(till my eyes are sore and several linux books strewn about my desk:)
>>
>>RedHat 7
>>Epson Stylus Photo 820.
>>
>>www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_Photo_820
>>
>>says that this is supported and the recommended driver is gimp-print but 
>>does not give any directions on how to use it.
>>
>>When I use printtool and test direct to port, I get one line that says 
>>"This text should appear on the printer on /dev/lp0".
>>When I try ASCII test or PostScript test page I get many pages of random 
>>characters.
>>
>>I've got the Epson Stypus Color 800 (which is the closest I found usint 
>>Printtool).
>>
>>Can someone either give me a quick rundown on what I need to do or where I 
>>can find good step-by-step directions to get this working?
>>
>>My next question will probably be getting my remaining Windows pc's to 
>>print on this printer.
>
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