[Scottish] HP LJ 6P & SuSE 9.2

[Magnus Lawrie]

Robert Barbour wrote:
> Having successfully installed 9.2 Professional, I am now having printer trouble.
> Installation with Yast was a doddle and its test printing of text only, graphics and text and photo worked fine.
> But when I try to print a document from openoffice or a plain text file from the desktop, PS output is sent to the printer and it prints one line of gobbledeygook then lots of blank pages.
> Where am I going wrong?
> Regards
> Rob
> 
> My old HP Laserjet 6P, 1998 vintage only seems to provide PCL. Postscript was only available on sister model Laserjet 6MP.
> 

I had problems installing an Epson C44UX on Suse9.1, which I resolved by 
installing 'lib gimp-print'. After this things went quite smoothly.

According to the info at the following link your printer may be supported:

http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/gimp-print/print/NEWS?rev=1.93

but check out www.linuxprinting.org for up to date info and download link.

regards,

Magnus