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Tommy Kelly <tommyk@dcs.gla.ac.uk> wrote:

>Tommy Kelly
>> > >RedHat 5.2
>> > >
>> > >I can't get any response from my new HP Deskjet 710c.
>
>"Chris":
>> I think youll find that this is a win printer (Windows Only)
>
>What exactly does that mean? Are you referring to PPA? 
>And how do you know?
>
>> Harold Sargeant:
>> > Try (as root) to print a text file by typing
>> > cat file > /dev/lp1
>> > and see what you get. You may get a staircase effect and the rest
>> > blank but it is a start.
>
>I tried this - under win98 the printer is on LPT1 as you
>suggested.
>In linux I got no response from the cat - no lights, no
>staircase text, not even a murmer from the motors.
>
>(But no error from the cat command - it just quietly returned
>to the bash prompt, as if it had successfully cat'ed to
>something). 
>




Download this puppy from this web site:
http://www.rpi.edu/~normat/technical/ppa/software.html
and your problems will be solved.

It won't make the printer print in color though but
the developer of this fix hopes to have that straightenned
out in th future,

Hope this helps

Alan