Printing problem

orange400 · 10-04-2004, 06:18 PM

I'm working on my neighbor's computer, trying to get the printer working. It's a Lexmark 1100 parallel printer. I've set it up through RH9, but when I try to print to it, it just sits there and doesn't so anything. Any ideas on how to fix this?

Thanks!

amfoster · 10-05-2004, 06:46 PM

Are u using lpd or cupsd?
Check if the daemon is running.
Try lpq and see if there are jobs in the queue.

I think we need those basic steps troubleshooted first.

orange400 · 10-06-2004, 04:44 PM

Yeah, we're using CUPS, and the daemon is running just fine. When I run lpq right after telling an application to print, the document shows up, but after a few seconds, it disappears after another lpq request. It's almost as if the printer is just dropping the data, only that's not the case - it worked just fine under their previous win32 system.

Any ideas? Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks!!

Peacedog · 10-06-2004, 05:36 PM

Have you seen this.

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_pr...m=Lexmark-1100

good luck.

Tinkster · 10-06-2004, 05:49 PM

Hard to say much, really.

Are the modules for the parallel printer loaded?
lsmod | grep par

What has the printer been set-up like in CUPS?

Cheers,
Tink