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[Constant Brouerius van Nidek <constant@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Friday, July 22, 2011 09:46:37 PM Johannes Meixner wrote:
> Hello,
>
> On Jul 22 19:54 Constant Brouerius van Nidek wrote (excerpt):
> > After some problems with my printers I want to connect my old and trusted
> > 9 dot printer. It is an Epson LX-300.  I could always find a ppd or
> > other driver for this printer in former Suse versions in Cups or in the
> > Yast printer setup but right now  dot printers are nowhere to be found.
> > Where to look? Do they hide under a nice modern name?
>
> There are not at all "printers in Cups".
> It is the printer driver RPM packages that provide the stuff which
> makes printer model names show up in whatever printer setup tools.
> I cannot know which printer driver RPM packages you have installed
> on your particular system.
> On my system (I won't tell you which exact system I have ;-)
> "lpinfo -m | grep -i dot" shows me several "Epson Dot Matrix".

I assume it is at least openSUSE ;)

> For more information you may have a look at
> http://en.opensuse.org/Portal:Printing
> http://en.opensuse.org/Concepts_printing
> http://en.opensuse.org/YaST_Printer

Johannes,
On my system, for details see my signature ;) I get no dot printers after 
lpinfo -m | grep -i dot.
After reading through the information material you supplied, I finally found 
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-LX-300plus. 

Thanks Ken Schneider, I was just there :) .


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