printer hell

[Eric Potter]

baza wrote:
> OK, I love Ubuntu. Have done since I was first told about it at a LUG in
> Birmingham (uk). BUT
> 
> I just can't get the darn thing to work with any of my printers. The
> Lexmark comes as no real surprise as it's always been a sod under Linux.
> But I also can't get my HP Desk Jet 500c to work. This is odd as it's
> worked fine with Suse, Mandrake, Fedora.
> 
> It's set up, but when I send a job to it, it grabs the paper from the
> tray, but stops, pauses for ages, then prints a line of garbage every
> minute or so.
> 
> Some one out there has got a printer working... how??
> 
> 
> Barry
> 
> 

We're assuming you already did this:

Computer --> System Configuration --> Printing
                                      _____________
                                     |             |
                                     |             |
                                     | New Printer |
                                     ---------------
                                                     (Right Click)  + Add