[Wylug-help] Printing

[Anne Wilson]

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On Sunday 12 Sep 2004 14:45, John Erskine wrote:
> I'm having problems printing at the moment. I'm a Linux Newbie so pardon
> what may seem like quite a gormless query.
>
> I use SuSE Linux 9.1 Personal running on a Dell Dimension 4600, and my
> printer is a Canon MP370.
>
> Canon don't supply a Linux driver for this device, but I was able to get a
> proprietary one from a German company called Turboprint, which was working
> fine, until recently. This operates partly Open Source, but to get it
> working without advertising you need to purchase a key code, which I did.
> Unfortunately, I think that at some stage I've altered the printer path
> which sends output to the USB port where the printer is connected, with the
> result that jobs seem to sit in Kjobviewer and go nowhere, and when I check
> the job report it says printer stopped, which it isn't.
>
> Any ideas on how I check the paths, and start to get printing again?
>
Hi, John.  I don't have SuSe, a Canon printer or Turboprint, so this is pure
guesswork.  Have you looked at the .conf files under /etc/cups?

Anne
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