Re: Problem with Canon BJC-1010 printer

[Bob McClure Jr <robertmcclure earthlink net>]

Sounds like when you initially set up this printer via printtool, you
selected "network printer" instead of "local printer".

On Tue, Mar 14, 2000 at 04:00:12PM -0500, Guenther Jakob wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I successfully installed RH6.1 on my Toshiba Satellite 2100CDS laptop.
> Everything is working fine (sound with the maestro driver and the built-in
> winmodem with the driver from Lucent) except my Canon BJC-1010 printer, which
> is connected to the parallel port of the laptop. I selected the Canon BJC-610
> (up) driver offered as input-filter by "printtool". This driver, which is also
> part of  GSView32, works fine under MS-Windows 98 (so it's definitely not a
> hardware problem).
> Printing either test page with printtool constantly results in the error
> message "lpd cannot connect....connection refused by server" although lpd is
> running.
> 
> Does anybody know a solution to this problem?

If that is true, delete that printer and set it up again, but as a local
printer.

> Guenther

Cheers,
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