Sounds like you have not properly configured your machine to use cups. psyche does not use cups by default. If you check back on this thread "RE: HP 4050TN - which driver?" I responded with a mini howto on setting up cups in psyche. -----Original Message----- From: Thomas Dodd [mailto:ted@cypress.com] Sent: Wed, December 11, 2002 5:34 PM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: Re: again I ask: WHY does printing in RH Psyche have to be such a PITA?? Elton Woo wrote: >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) > > <snip> >on *his* system. It only will print in monochrome Black. (That'll teach me to buy a >display item from Radio Shack!!! <*grrrr*> ....). > > So take it back? Send it to Lexmark for repair? It should be under warranty, every display item I've bought at Radio Shack was considered new, and priced the same as new. price watch lists them ~$90 total. >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. > > So the test prints work? >... 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... > Can you print from the command line? Plain text? PostScript? Images? -Thomas -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
