On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 19:02, Landy Roman wrote:

On 22 Mar 2002 18:49:21 +0100 wolfi wrote:

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Hi Landy,

Which printer is it? (model?) dozens are existing.

DESKJUET hp640c

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Are you using cups or lpr?

lpr

Hi Landy, If you don't manage to get it to work with lpr, I would strongly recommend switching to cups. Then, have a look at http://www.linuxprinting.org , and look for this model, and get yourself a driver (ppd.gz-file) for this model, to copy it to the/usr/share/cups/model/HP/ directory. Then the driver should be available in YaST2 Cheers .... Wolfi ============================================= mailto:wolfi_z@yahoo.com AND PLEASE DON'T ALWAYS DO REPLIES TO ALL, ONLY REPLY TO THE LIST!! _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com

On 24 Mar 2002 17:02:25 +0100 wolfi wrote:

Hi once more,

I just had a look into my YaST2 on SuSE 7.3 The driver for the HP DeskJet 640C is not present there, so getting a driver from linuxprinting.org seems to be the most promising way. This printer model apparently is newer than SuSE 7.3, so do it that way and I think you should achieve maximum performance:-)

http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_640C

Cheers .... Wolfi

i tried that and i see some extra drivers when i run yast2, but when i try the test page with those drivers i get " call of apsfilter setup and then test page fails to print with an error sayin unable to print test page blablabla

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On Sat, 2002-03-23 at 12:50, Landy Roman wrote: i have a color printer hp usb with suse 7.2 and it does not want to print color

Hi,

Once I was in a similar situation, except my printer is a Canon, not HP. Since I was using lpr and YaST2, all other factors are the same; I don't believe that being usb would have any effect in this case.

Go to YaST2, Hardware, Edit Printers. If it is not highlighted yet, highlight your printer. Click on Edit. On the right side, click on Settings. In the top panel, the line with 'drivers', it probably says 'Monochrome' or something similar. In the bottom panel there are some printers listed; click on the appropriate one (in my case is "color driver 'uniprint'", but the wording for HP is probably different). You may click on 'Test' and see the result right away. Don't forget to click on 'Next' to make it effective.

HTH

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On Sat, 23 Mar 2002 05:51:25 -0600 Jay Vollmer wrote:

Landy Roman wrote:

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i have a color printer hp usb with suse 7.2 and it does not want to print color

Have you selected the color driver?

yes

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