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Re: Question about a printer on Mandrake..

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From: Michael Dwyer
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:00
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Tony Martinac <martinac@cs.colostate.edu> wrote:
: This might be trivial but I'm using Mandrake Linux and trying to operate
: a DeskJet 820 Cse printer.  My boss installed Mandrake and I don't think
: he changed the printer type.  We are not too familiar with Linux, but I
: tried using printtool and tried to change the printcap file in the
: etc/.  Where do I go from here?  Is the DeskJet 820 supported by Linux?
: Any help would be appreciated.

I have no experience with it, but I believe that the 820 is to real
printers what a winmodem is to a real modem.  That is, most of the
brains is in the driver.  But don't quote me on this. :)

I think that people are having more luck with this one that the modem
one, though.  I believe you can get ghostscript to output the right
format. 

All this doesn't help you, I'm sure... :)  Try looking at the Printing
HOWTO (search for that) -- or just do a search for the "deskjet 820 linux"
and see what comes up.

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