Setting up a Printer....

[gary]

On Sun, 2006-12-03 at 09:04 -0400, Ted Gervais wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi Gary and the others on the list....
> 
> I am not using usb but parallel as you suggested. And I agree with you - 
> this printer worked fine right out of the box (as they say) with fc5.
> Must be something different in fc6???
> 
> 
> 
>  > ON a new FC6 installation I am trying to get my printer going. It is a
> > > Deskjet 895Cxi.  And the default installation shows no signs of working.
> > >
> > > I am trying to use 'system-config-printer' to get things going and am
> > > wondering if that is the only tool available or is there something else.
> > >
> > > So far I have no luck in getting the printer to come to life..
> > >
> > >
> >
> >  I have exactly the same printer on  fc5 - with no problem but I recall
> >sometime back not being able to get it going with usb. If you're using
> >usb try the parallel hookup instead.     ------gary
> >

 ??? - Since it looks like you'll have to troubleshoot this, here's a good starting point=
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_895C

                                       --------gary