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On Wed, 2013-06-05 at 19:30 +0100, bad apple wrote: > Right, on to my next headache (it's the same problematic box belonging > to my parents). > > I cannot seem to get the above combination to play nice - lots of raw > postscript being dumped to the paper instead of the expected results. I > will freely admit that printing on Linux is not something I'm very good > at as I literally never print anything personally, and normally for > clients I just plug the printer in, let CUPS do it's work and everything > is rosy. > > The only potential oddity is that the ancient 2100 is a parallel port > device and the PC in question is too modern to have either a suitable > port or the ISA slot required to drop my old serial/parallel breakout > connection card into so I bought a generic parallel to USB adaptor, > which seemed to work fine. Linux/CUPS immediately detected the printer > correctly, and once again, the dual boot Win8 install flawlessly > acquired drivers from windows update and prints without issues. > > So I've been fiddling around in the CUPS interface, and have tried all > of the available driver options - there are about 10 - and the correct > PPD which I obtained directly, with no luck. Helpfully, printing the > maintenance test page from the CUPS admin section results in the 2100 > printing the same "If you can read this you do not have the correct > driver installed" no matter which driver I use. I do remember at least > about Linux+printers from the distant past to make sure I've avoided all > the really dumb mistakes, like changing US Letter to A4 but have at > least temporarily hit a brick wall. > > Anyone got any ideas? > > Cheers > Do you have HPLIP installed ? -- ________________________________________________________________________ Regards Kevin Lucas Minions Post Master(Sub) A dedicated Linux user /usr/bin/microsoft Skype minions_shop www.minionsbandb.co.uk www.tearooms.minionsbandb.co.uk FaceBook Minions_shop Po House, Minions, Liskeard Cornwall PL14 5LE 01579363386 -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/listfaq