except we got 5 of these at work and they all work fine, whether they're connected to windows boxes and shared over the network or directly connected to GNU/Linux boxes.
this is on Mandrake 10.1, but I do remember that earlier versions where a bit of a problem, so since you're using a very old distro (redhat 9 is no longer supported by redhat and recieves no updates afaik) your problem may be old CUPS version.
try to upgrade CUPS or upgrade the whole distro and see.
you may want to test with a recent liveCD first.
Alaa
"i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"
You have to set up CUPS on your RH9 box first to match your printer
what driver are you using ( I assume run redhat-config-printer to check it )
The only way I can -reliably- print without doing a lot of playing around is to convert my file to a postscript and use lpd
it's the most reliable way to print is by converting your file to postscript (.ps). If it is an image gimp can convert it and if it's a document you can save as a .pdf in open office and use the shell program pdf2ps to convert to a .ps
Then you use:
But that is assuming you've got the printer installed ( And since you get the first-line-garbage thing, you probably do )
I used to be indecisive .. but now I'm not so sure
why do you guys insist on making things complicated, no need to convert to ps at all, printing works just fine from all the apps I ever used, they all convert to postscript in the back but the user (even the expert user) does not need to worry about this.
Alaa
"i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"
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except we got 5 of these at work and they all work fine, whether they're connected to windows boxes and shared over the network or directly connected to GNU/Linux boxes.
this is on Mandrake 10.1, but I do remember that earlier versions where a bit of a problem, so since you're using a very old distro (redhat 9 is no longer supported by redhat and recieves no updates afaik) your problem may be old CUPS version.
try to upgrade CUPS or upgrade the whole distro and see.
you may want to test with a recent liveCD first.
Alaa
"i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"
set up CUPS
You have to set up CUPS on your RH9 box first to match your printer
what driver are you using ( I assume run redhat-config-printer to check it )
The only way I can -reliably- print without doing a lot of playing around is to convert my file to a postscript and use lpd
it's the most reliable way to print is by converting your file to postscript (.ps). If it is an image gimp can convert it and if it's a document you can save as a .pdf in open office and use the shell program pdf2ps to convert to a .ps
Then you use:
But that is assuming you've got the printer installed ( And since you get the first-line-garbage thing, you probably do )
I used to be indecisive .. but now I'm not so sure
huh
why do you guys insist on making things complicated, no need to convert to ps at all, printing works just fine from all the apps I ever used, they all convert to postscript in the back but the user (even the expert user) does not need to worry about this.
Alaa
"i`m feeling for the 2nd time like alice in wonderland reading el wafd"
Same with all of the
Thank You :) :)
RedHat 9 is no longer support
RedHat 9 is no longer supported by redhat, No security updates or fixes since long ago.
Quote "c u next life time then when i come back as a mug of tea :P"
How is RedHat 9 no longer supported?
Thanks
Redhat announced the disconti
Redhat announced the discontinuity of redhat linux for desktop and gave a rise to fedora which is more community oriented.
The updates are still there, But no more updates'll be rolled out.
Quote "c u next life time then when i come back as a mug of tea :P"
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