3 years no print with Linux

[Tom Adelstein]

On Tue, 2005-04-26 at 09:23 -0400, John DeCarlo wrote:
> On 4/26/05, squareyes <squareyes at optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>         Hi all,
>         have just realised that in the 3 years I have been
>         using Linux (various distro's) I have never managed to
>         print a single page . I have 2 Epson dot matrix printers
>         (LQ 500 and LX 300) both listed in the list of printers 
>         when adding "New Printer" but neither work.  
> 
> 
> Here is a web site that may help you.  I found it by Googling.
> 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-LQ-500
>  

I've had a lot of luck using samba with cups. I access cups through the
browser with the address localhost:631 and configure samba with
localhost:901.

Setup your printer first and samba second.