[Wolves] cups and my lousy hp laserjet6l

[Kevanf1]

On Sun, 5 Dec 2004 18:15:20 +0000 (GMT), Adam Sweet <drinky76 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>  --- scared at geneforensic.mine.nu wrote:
> 
> > What can I do? what should I test and is this
> > problem symptomatic of an
> > old (and HP) printer or just dodgy configuration by
> > user(me!)?
> 
> Maybe
> http://linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-LaserJet_6L
> could help you, I don't know.
> 
> I've never used one under Linux personally, but it
> allegedly 'works perfectly' according to the above
> link. Perhaps there are tips on the page that can
> help.
> 
> Does it print ok under ahem Windows? There is a
> hardware problem with the 6L that causes it to jam.
> 
> Other than that I can only suggest making sure you
> have all of the right bits and pieces (I'm no Linux
> printing expert) as specified on the above link.
> 
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It may not be of much use, sorry if it isn't, but I have successfully
run a Laserjet 4l under both Debian and RH style Linux distros -
Xandros betas and both Mandrake and SuSE.  Perhaps the 6 would work if
it was configured as a 4?.
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Kevan Farmer

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