printer hell

[Baza]

>> 
>> 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.
> 

It's a Lexmark P706, which I'm told is very linux unfriendly

Barry