printer hell

[Bob Nielsen]

On Mon, Nov 15, 2004 at 09:47:04PM +0000, 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

You didn't mention which model of Lexmark you have.  My E312 works
perfectly with Ubuntu (and Debian and Libranet), although that is 
likely because it uses PostScript.