[Nottingham] Printers not printing

[Marcel Taylor]

Hi

prior to recompiling my kernel, I thought it would be a good idea to prin=
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(and study) the relevant HOW-TO. I clicked on the print icon, the printer=
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nothing! I tried printing one of my Open-Office documents, nothing again.=
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That has always worked before. All this was on a parallel connection to a=
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Desk Jet 550C. I tried a HP Desk Jet 895Cxi via USB, which had worked bef=
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Again nothing. There is nothing in my print queue. I reconfigured the HP =
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The serial connection test did print 'Hello, world'. The configuration te=
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did not produce any output. I'm running SuSE 8.1 on a Toshiba Tecra 8000=20
laptop, 2.4.19. Can anyone help?
Thanks,
Desperate of Gedling