Re: [SLE] Lexmark E210 printer help need badly
Hi: I'm the last one to be able to help. However, can you describe what happens when you delete the printer, then add the printer in YaST2? There's a test for parallel port, that might be important [if you're adding it on the parallel port]. Or, can you create a one liner testfile.txt, and then at the command prompt: cat testfile.txt >/dev/lp0 The printer should respond, but you may have to form-feed once it gets there to actually print it out. Thanks, Tom ----- Original Message ----- From: Ralph F. De Witt
To: SuSE Linux English Sent: Sunday, September 02, 2001 10:22 PM Subject: [SLE] Lexmark E210 printer help need badly Hi all: I have just gotten a brand new Lexmark E210 printer, the box said that it
was
able to run under linux. I have installed the Ghostscript rpm's from the install disk, I set up the apsfilter as per the manual, but I am still not able to get it to print. Has any one gotten one of these to work in SuSE,
and
could supply some gidance? Thanks for your help.
Ralph -- It said uses Windows 98 or better so I installed SuSE 7.2 Proud user of SuSE 7.2 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7
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On Sunday 02 September 2001 10:34 pm, you wrote: the future I will look more carefully before buying. (ie. look beyond the marketing hype on the box that says runs in Linux.) 2.) It looks like Lexmark is not supporting the printer in Linux. I could not find any updated files on their site. So I am stuck with their modified 5.50 Ghostsciript install. 3.) Install was taliored for Red Hat 7.1. It was much too difficult to install it via the old linux printing system. So the switch to cups. To their credit they did have insturctions for Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake. Wish list: 1.) Support for the Lexmark E210 to be added into the current Ghostscript version. 2.) Support for the Lexmark E210 to added to future SuSE distributions. Ralph -- It said uses Windows 98 or better so I installed SuSE 7.2 Proud user of SuSE 7.2 Professional Register Linux User 168814 ICQ #49993234 GPG Public Key available at http://www.keyserver.net Key fingerprint = 6426 1CFF 0987 9D51 76D6 06BC F22A CFF4 559A 03E7
On Monday 03 September 2001 10:39 am, Ralph F. De Witt, you wrote:
Tom: Thanks for your reply. I have taken a different track. I have installed cups and removed lprold. I then installed the modified 5.50 rpm of Ghostscript and droped in the cups printer definition file from the set up disk now things are working. For the learning curve: 1.) The Lexmark E210 is a GDI printer, it is not postscript compatable, in the future I will look more carefully before buying. (ie. look beyond the marketing hype on the box that says runs in Linux.) 2.) It looks like Lexmark is not supporting the printer in Linux. I could not find any updated files on their site. So I am stuck with their modified 5.50 Ghostsciript install. 3.) Install was taliored for Red Hat 7.1. It was much too difficult to install it via the old linux printing system. So the switch to cups. To their credit they did have insturctions for Red Hat, SuSE and Mandrake. Wish list: 1.) Support for the Lexmark E210 to be added into the current Ghostscript version. 2.) Support for the Lexmark E210 to added to future SuSE distributions.
Ralph
Ralph, You might want to check the SuSE ftp site for the GhostScript update files. This is version 6.51, which may indeed have your printer included. I haven't actually looked thru all the printers myself, as mine was already supported with the original GS/SuSE install (7.2). Of course, you seem to have your problem solved with CUPS, but it is always good to check their site for upgrades first when experiencing problems of this sort. end of line Tracer -- ---KMail 1.3--- SuSE Linux v7.2--- Registered Linux User #225206 /tracerb@sprintmail.com/ *Magic Page Products* *Team Amiga* http://home.sprintmail.com/~tracerb
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