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Article #37Re: Question about a printer on Mandrake..
From: Michael Dwyer
Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2000 00:00
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. -- -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Michael J. Dwyer Digital Watches are a neat idea! mdwyer@holly.ColoState.edu http://WWW.CS.ColoState.EDU/~dwyer/ Computer Science Major Amateur Radio Tech N0ZAP
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From: Michael Dwyer <mdwyer@holly.ColoState.EDU>
Subject: Re: Question about a printer on Mandrake..
Date: 2000/04/24
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