Printing in Ubuntu 8.04

[steve]

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Rob wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Can anyone shed any light on why printing seems to be such rocket 
> science with Linux?  I have been using Linux for a good number of years, 
> beginning with much earlier versions of Red Hat, then Mandrake and 
> finally now, Ubuntu 8.04.  I have always had problems with printing and 
> once again with Ubuntu, I am not able to print.  I have 5 documents in 
> queue to print but they are not printing.  Not sure what else I can add 
> to a description of this problem other than in the Document Print Status 
> box, my printer is correctly identified as an HP Deskjet 6940...
> 
> Any clues would be welcome.
> 
> Many thanks,
> Rob
> 

http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_6940

should work fine with the ppd from HP, see the bottom of this page.






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