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Old 11-29-2002, 10:32 PM   #1
Schizo265
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adding a printer

im trying to add my Lexmark E210. how do i do this?

i swear the other night, at 3:30am, i saw some addprinterwizard somewhere...i can't find it! help
 
Old 11-30-2002, 09:49 PM   #2
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a question
how am i able to find out to which lp port is my printer connected?
 
Old 12-01-2002, 04:49 AM   #3
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well, usually it's lp0
And isn't there only one lp port on most computers? Well i at least have only one...
So if you have your printer support in the kernel, something like cat example.txt > /dev/lp0 should work
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