Printer on slack9
 

Hi

I'm trying to set up my HP deskjet 970Cxi in slack9, but I couldnt do it work

I took a look at linuxprinting.org but I have a poor english and then I didnt udersntand much in that page.
I downloaded my printer PPD file.

I dont know how to do it, because I already selected my printers name in Peripheralls >> Printers but when I click " Teste " it says me that a page will be printed, but nothing happens.

What should I do??

Tnx a lot.

:study:

How is your printer connected to your box? I recently (due to a renewed spark of interest) got mine to work using the default aps drivers.
Although it does seem a little poorly documented at first, if you just dive in and attempt
a config on it, you can start to test out options specific to your printer.
The way to get started is:
cd /usr/share/apsfilter and read some of the files around then, when you
are ready:
/usr/share/apsfilter/SETUP
will start the setup of the program. Once you are done, you can test a page at the end, if you test something properly, you've got yourself a printer.
Now to setup your applications to use it:
In the print section of each application use this as your syntax:
lpr -P printername
Where printername is the name you chose during the apsfilter setup. There are plenty more options, and your application may need them, see man lpr for more info.

Cool

Its connected thru parallel port.
I d/l and installed ghostscript and hpijs but dunno how to go on...

Try using the aspfilter first, if that doesn't work, then we'll move onto other things like cups.

Cool

I selected aspfilter but it wont print...