I've finally found that my printer will not print in colour, because the colour mechanism is defective. At least, it can or should print in monochrome. LEXMARK Z53, (parallel-port, usb) connected ONLY via the usb hub. Unfortunately, there is no GUI app in linux as in Windows, whereby one can verify ink levels in the cartridges. Hence, I installed Windows, and further to that, got a Windows-using friend to try the printer on *his* system. It only will print in monochrome Black. (That'll teach me to buy a display item from Radio Shack!!! <*grrrr*> ....). so, I'm resigned to printing in B & W ... until such time that I can either repair the printer, or purchase another one. Today, for no reason, I cannot print (except to do test prints using either the CUPS admin utility, or the redhat printer configuration utility (printconf-gui). This latter insistently defaults to /dev/lp0, instead of /dev/usb/lp0. ... I've now spent almost a hour trying to print a letter from Open Office or the same from Abiword. The jobs don't even *show* in the Cups config jobs list... I DON'T want to have to install Windows on my machine again. I've even added my user (myself) to the lp group, but nothing doing... some assistance, please? TIA Elton Woo http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/stats/team/team_4504.html "We ALL should make life EASIER for each other." LINUX Reg'd User #193975. AMD-K7 ATHLON on board. -- ______________________________________________ http://www.linuxmail.org/ Now with POP3/IMAP access for only US$19.95/yr Powered by Outblaze -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
