printer hell

Bob Nielsen nielsen at oz.net
Tue Nov 16 19:21:08 UTC 2004


On Tue, Nov 16, 2004 at 06:05:43PM +0000, Baza wrote:
> 
> 
> 
> >> 
> >> 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

Unfortunately that model isn't listed at all on www.linuxprinting.org, 
which lists a large number of printers which work (or do not work) with 
Linux.






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