Printing in Ubuntu 8.04

Rob robfleet at ix.netcom.com
Sun Sep 28 02:06:39 UTC 2008


Many thanks.  However, I see no instructions for installing/configuring, 
etc...

Rob

steve wrote:
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>> Greetings all,
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>> 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...
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>> Any clues would be welcome.
>>
>> Many thanks,
>> Rob
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> http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_6940
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> should work fine with the ppd from HP, see the bottom of this page.
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