On Monday 07 May 2007 08:55, Joachim Schrod wrote:

Doug McGarrett wrote:

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One printer worked pretty well, after some futzing around, but the HP Laserjet 2200D, that worked under 10.0, (which had its own problems with KMail,) will print, sometimes, _after about an 1 hour or more delay_. I reported this to the list, but have not had any reply, much less cure. This printer is listed as 100% working on the Linux Printing website. And it was, under 10.0, but since 10.0 ruined my mail with Chinese characters, I had to go back to 9.3. The printer that worked pretty well may have broken of its own accord, but the Laserjet that worked under 10.0 still works perfectly under Windows, even tho Windows itself doesn't work perfectly--or even well. It just doesn't like 9.3, or vice versa. I think that this should be made clear. Probably SuSE 9.3's fault, yes, absolutely. I am hoping 10.3 is pristine, and I'm waiting.

Take the CD that came with your printer, identify the PPD file there and use it for CUPS. Alternatively, get the Windows printer driver from the HP Web site, and extract the PPD file from there.

All problems that I had in 9.x with that printer went away afterwards. I don't know if there are any problems in 10.x, since I continue to use the vendor-supplied PPD file.

Joachim

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Well, I don't have the vendor-supplied file on disk, but I got a copy from the net, called "hp5sips.ppd" and with a great deal of futzing around, I _think_ I installed it into cups. The printer test printed out in 23 minutes. This is not a big improvement. I'm still waiting for a net d/l to print--it's only about 10 minutes now, but nothing is happening--even the start-print light on the printer isn't blinking, so I suppose there will be no print-out at all. --doug -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org