On Sun, 2003-04-20 at 05:31, Mike Vanecek wrote: > I used printer configuration to set up a locally-connected printer on > /dev/lp0. The printer is a HP LaserJet Series 2. The system installed the Omni > driver. If I select test and print an ASCII text test page, the test page > prints correctly. > > If I try to print anything else using anything else (gedit, open office, > mozilla, and so on) the output is blurry garbage. > > I suspect that the system is trying to send postscript format to a > non-postscript printer. Not! Postscript is "readable" ascii, so if you get garbage you're not getting postscript. > I would think that such an old printer would have no problem working with > supplied drivers? A while ago I had a LJ series 2 which worked fine with the RH7.x drivers. > Can anyone advice me on how to get the printer working on RH 9? > > Thank you. > > Mike. Maybe you could try other printer drivers? Try configuring it as a Laserjet 2 (seems to use other drivers) or a standard Laserjet (they are backward compatible I think). -- Klaasjan Brand <kjb@xxxxxx>
