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What sort of printer it is - a local one directly connected to your system or networked? And what did you try so far? Stuck with some error(s)?
As per RHEL documentations:
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Using Printer Configuration Tool requires root privileges. To start the application, select System (on the panel) => Administration => Printing, or type the command system-config-printer at a shell prompt.
the thing is when i look for Printer its Epson its there but the Model FX-890 does not exist as you can see under select connection from the screenshot there is no Epson printer. That's were i am stuck
Please tell us how the printer is connected i.e. USB, parallel port or networked i.e. attached to another computer. If networked and connected to another computer what is its operating system i.e. windows or linux.
the printer is an Epson Dotmatrix FX-890, its connected to a local machine running on Windows XP. Its been shared on the network so that everyone can access it. Its using a LPT1 not USB
You want add a network printer using windows printer via samba and its URI will be smb://10.48.43.209/epsonfx. Assuming the windows computer's IP address is 10.48.43.209.
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