Checkout this site: www.turboprint.de It has a printer program which supports various colour printers and allows you to check the ink levels just like in windows. Not sure if it will support your printer though.. Wolf -----Original Message----- From: Elton Woo [mailto:eltwoo@linuxmail.org] Sent: Wednesday, 11 December 2002 11:40 AM To: psyche-list@redhat.com Subject: again I ask: WHY does printing in RH Psyche have to be such a PITA?? Importance: High 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 ###################################################################### Attention: This e-mail message is privileged and confidential. If you are not the intended recipient please delete the message and notify the sender. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author. This e-mail has been scanned and cleared by MailMarshal www.marshalsoftware.com ###################################################################### -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
