Maura Edelweiss wrote:
SuSE PRO 7.3 installed and working on my DELL GX110 mini-tower computer. I have an EPSON STYLUS COLOR C60 connected through a USB cable. SuSE detects the printer correctly as well as the USB cable. I tried to configure the printer using either "lp" or"cups". My problem is that no matter the dpi configuration or the driver I choose the test image printed out is always only black/white. Actually when I configured the printer as "lp" the choice of some high-resolution drivers caused SuSe configuration interface to lose control of the printer that kept printing pages and pages of wierd characters and symbols. Not even turning it off and on again could reset it. I finally could kill the printing process by unplugging the USB cable and shutting down the computer.
As my printer supports colors and can print colors when driven by Windows 2000 (I tested that) my question for you is HOW CAN I GET A COLOR PRINTOUT withe SuSE ???
My advice would be to uninstall lprold or whatever non-cups printing package you may have. The may pages of gibberish you had sound typical of the old lp package. Then make sure you have Cups installed. I would then advise you to download a copy of turboprint (www.turboprint.be), and install it. It works with cups, and provides a driver for your printer, which is probably much superior to whatever generic driver cups has. You can test the colour option, but it will print with a logo. If you don't want the logo, buy the program, it's only $19. I know it's a commercial product, but if there is an area of Linux on the desktop that really needs improving, it's the printing system. Cups is definitely a step in the right direction, but until printer makers release Cups drivers for their printers, it will remain a choice between limited features with an open cups driver, of full features with a commercial driver. Before turboprint, I tried Easy print pro, but TP is definitely superior: I use an HP deskjet 940, and TP is the first driver that has given me the same quality in Linux as in Windows. Happy new year fx -- _______________________ Courtesy of SuSE Linux AIM fyxyf