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[opensuse] printer problem, 9_3
  • From: Doug McGarrett <dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 01:28:19 -0500
  • Message-id: <200611250128.20059.dmcgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
It drives me crazy.  I can't seem to print from Suse 9.3.  My main machine is
down with unknown problems, and I have only the Suse machine.  I brought the
HP 970 Cxi color printer over, plugged it in, Suse found new hardware, printed
most of a  test page, and then decided to spit everything out and not touch
it again.

Running on USB, but I can try parallel.  When I tell it to print, nothing
happens.

When I go to YaST, it comes   up with parallel printer checked, and I
move it to USB  --altho there are a lot of USB's available, and I don't
know what any of them stand for.  When I go to test, it either prints in
very light print, or not at all, altho paper comes out.  But when I try to
print from KMail, nothing at all happens.

Would it make more sense to go to parallel print?  I can do that.  This
machine printed fine to a parallel HP Laser Jet  when I had 10.0 on it,
now it won't print over that length of cable, so I moved the other (color)
printer right next to the machine, and plugged in USB.  Since the XP machine
is down, I really need a system that can reliably print.  What can I do to
find out what the problem is and fix it?

I'm using a Fry's computer with an additional 512 MB RAM, everything else is
like I bought it, without an OS installed, about a year ago.

Thanx for any help--

doug
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