[opensuse] 9 dot printers in Cups, where?
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? -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.0.0-rc7-4-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) 19:46pm up 9:00, 4 users, load average: 1.06, 0.62, 0.51 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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". 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 Kind Regards Johannes Meixner -- SUSE LINUX Products GmbH -- Maxfeldstrasse 5 -- 90409 Nuernberg -- Germany HRB 16746 (AG Nuernberg) GF: Jeff Hawn, Jennifer Guild, Felix Imendoerffer -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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 :) . -- Linux User 183145 using LXDE and KDE4 on a Pentium IV , powered by openSUSE 11.4 (i586) Kernel: 3.0.0-rc7-4-desktop LXDE WM & KDE Development Platform: 4.6.5 (4.6.5) 10:32am up 23:47, 4 users, load average: 0.65, 0.40, 0.24 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Am 23.07.2011 05:41, schrieb Constant Brouerius van Nidek:
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 :) .
Maybe you should add http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Printing/openSUSE_11.4 to your repo list. You'll find a lot of OpenPrinting's PPDs there :-) Regards, Werner -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.16 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with SUSE - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJOKy+7AAoJEOfJ7bNoiiCNWqwH/2/PIH3hx4mFRggRAr6PVrW2 fqSFdXNkJiWRQVFH0AI6BChxFXZ1ipRFLjAmFTzHJTs7lW7LdLJJ34UGMeJhvN9f xqN7g5mQJLt+mWXe6VJfjFD2b0YReohn0tC38WMVwA/uynUsz4SI6h+xRBrx3VNL DA0POM6C2NbiEqYgeET9nGdW1cU8QgW9K/pnFfpZC37M8tgaKuO7583Pi+bt3Nqb WEj7iRiylz8rXOn45y8CtN4RHt3KxnNnSbUijDr+Y4Bx19FS9LpeKeNu4euFaelQ tQXoDX+os0HmVbr0HrD8+bfxSERaXPenecvW3fCBUbwJEqTYH1HTMclAC2ggjRQ= =ue0N -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
On 07/22/2011 08:54 AM, Constant Brouerius van Nidek pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
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?
http://www.openprinting.org/printer/Epson/Epson-LX-300plus -- Ken Schneider SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998 -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org
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Constant Brouerius van Nidek -
Johannes Meixner -
Ken Schneider - openSUSE -
Werner Flamme