[6687] in RedHat Linux List
Re: printing question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bomber)
Fri Nov 29 14:17:27 1996
Date: Fri, 29 Nov 1996 11:13:53 -0800 (PST)
From: bomber@globalpac.com (bomber)
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> I have been unable to make my printer work. When I finally broke down
> and read the Printing HOWTO (9/10/96), it told me that I ought to be able to
> find the device "lp" in the output of "cat /proc/devices".
>
> In fact, "lp" is not in the list. I had done an "everything" install of
> 4.0, and assumed that that included the printer. What can I do about it?
> (I actually tried reinstalling from scratch. Nothing changed.)
>
> (I have a Panasonic KX-P5400 ps parallel-port printer and a 486-dx33 with
> 20 meg system.)
>
> Any advice will be appreciated.
have you tried the printtool in the control panel? or can you find any
references to your particular printer via web search? if you use
ghostscript as filter, here are the devices:
]
Available devices:
x11 x11alpha x11cmyk x11mono deskjet djet500 laserjet ljetplus ljet2p
ljet3 ljet4 cdeskjet cdjcolor cdjmono cdj550 pj pjxl pjxl300 bj10e
bj200
bjc600 bjc800 stcolor faxg3 faxg32d faxg4 pcxmono pcxgray pcx16 pcx256
pcx24b pbm pbmraw pgm pgmraw pgnm pgnmraw pnm pnmraw ppm ppmraw
tiffcrle
tiffg3 tiffg32d tiffg4 tifflzw tiffpack tiff12nc tiff24nc psmono bit
bitrgb bitcmyk pngmono pnggray png16 png256 png16m pdfwrite nullpage
bomber
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