[olug] Printer help

[Jonathan Warren]

lpd is the line printer deamon.  Kde is pretty slick but I would recomdn you not configure system devices from kde because of the large variation of systems it is designed to run on.  There are a bunch of things to watch when trying to ge tyour printer working.  I use slackware 8.1 beta.  Slackware ships with a ghostscript adn apsfilter.  I was able to configure my apollo 1200p using that setup.  I would recomend you read the documentation of the distro you installed and see if it recomends a program to setup your printer.  

There are several commands to monitor your lpd.  
lpq - view jobs in the queue.
lprm - remove lp jobs 
lpstatus - check printer queue status 

you can find all kinds of configuration and usage information at 
www.linuxprinting.org

A printing howto found at www.linuxdoc.org remcomends pdq.  I have never used it but the howto implies it is much easier to use.  Good luck
-Jon Warren

On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 09:19:11AM -0600, Charles Broer wrote:
> I have not been able to get my printer configured and need some help in doing 
> so.
> 
> First some background:
> I am a newbie to linux
> My equipment is an Intel Pentium II processor.
> It is a dual boot system: LInux or Windows.
> The printer is a Hewlett Packard LaserJet 4P.
> I am running Red Hat linux version 7.2 and using a KDE desktop.
> I am trying to use the driver with the displayed name of ljet4.
> The printer is on and connected properly. It works under Windows or DOS.
> 
> I go to the K menu -> System -> Printer Configuration and after I have gone 
> through the configuration routine I try to print a test page. The last two 
> messages I get are:
> 
> 1: "lpd restart succeeded"
> 2: "There was an error trying to print the test page"
> 
> I thank you for any help I can get
> Charlie
> 
> Charles W. Broer
> E-Mail cwbroer at neb.rr.com
> 
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