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From: Simon Siemonsma <s.siemonsma@hccnet.nl>
To: Bill Schoolcraft <bill@wiliweld.com>
Subject: Re: Setting-up CUPS with HP Deskjet 710C problems
Date: Wed, 2 Jan 2002 19:08:55 +0000
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I have a so called Windows printer. As far I now I can't just print ascii to 
it, but hopefully I'm wrong. In which case I would appreciate you to tell me 
how I should do this. I tried to echo something to lpt0 but it didn't work. 
At boot time the printer is recognised however.
I'm very much thinking about giving it up and give lpd a try instead. Is that 
may be better?

Simon Siemonsma


On Tuesday 01 January 2002 17:03, you wrote:
> At Tue, 1 Jan 2002 it looks like Simon Siemonsma composed:
> > My printer is connected to my parrallel port.
> >
> > My /usr/local/etc/cups/printers.conf file looks like this:
> > # Printer configuration file for CUPS v1.1.12
> > # Written by cupsd on  Tue Jan 1 10:19:05 2002
> > <DefaultPrinter HP_DeskJet_710C>
> > Location Home office
> > DeviceURI parallel:/dev/lpt0
> > State Idle
> > Accepting Yes
> > JobSheets none none
> > QuotaPeriod 0
> > PageLimit 0
> > Klimit 0
> > </Printer>
>
> Have you attempted to first configure it for a "text" printer only
> ? You should first strive to get your printer to at least print
> something albeit just ASCII text.

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