HP LaserJet 1000

[Alexander Dalloz]

Am Do, den 19.02.2004 schrieb Rick Stevens um 20:51:
> Mario St-Gelais wrote:
> > I started not so long ago with Linux.  Initially, I installed SUSE Linux 
> > and with some pain was able to install my HP printer.
> > 
> > Then I switched to Fedora and I haven't been able to make that damn 
> > printer puke some printed stuff.  I followed all instructions as per 
> > http://www.linuxprinting.org/ without success.  When I do "cat 
> > sihp1000.img > /dev/usb/lp0" the printer burps out some noise indicating 
> > I guess that the driver is being loaded buy yet it won't print.  Looking 
> > at log files I get all kind of messages according to flavor of the day I 
> > guess : "paper tray empty" or "printer faults".  But I damn know it is 
> > not empty.
> > 
> > What am I gonna do switch back to SUSE??
> 
> Try opening the image in gimp or another image viewer ("RedHat
> icon->Graphics->The gimp" or "->More Graphics Applications->Image
> Viewer") and print from there?  Spewing an image directly to the printer
> port is guaranteed NOT to work (it wouldn't in Windows or any other
> OS to my knowledge...it's gotta go through some software driver
> somehow).

sihp1000.img is no graphics image! See
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_1000

Alexander


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