Problems setting up printer

[audriusb at homelan.lt]

Quoting Lewis Futrell <lfutrell at intrex.net>:

There are many reasons for such bad position. Open site:
   http://mirrors.kernel.org/LDP/HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO/index.html
and follow this long instruction. Working step by step and You'll find and fix
your bug. I performed my HP PSC1210 exactly in this way.

Gediminas Bukauskas


> I have a Lexmark Optra E laser printer and I am having 'fun' trying to set
> it up.  I'm using Kubuntu at the moment, but since it's using CUPS just like
> ubuntu, I figured that if ever I switch over to just Ubuntu I would need to
> find the answer to this problem anyway.
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> My problem is that no matter what driver I chose for the printer, when I try
> to test a print page, all I get is multiple pages with a single line of
> garbage on each page.  I cannot stop the printer from printing the pages
> without shutting it down and rebooting the system.  On other distros, I
> could get the printer to work, but often times the test page would just keep
> on printing.  Any help would be appreciated.
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> Lewis Futrell
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> Intrex Computers, Greensboro
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