[olug] Printing problems under Suse

[Bill Brush]

Have you considered your "driver" aka PPD file may be borked?  If it
was a Windows problem I would definitely think it was a driver issue.

Just a thought.  If that's not it, i would concur it may be a hardware
issue with the port.

Bill

On 10/3/05, Don E. Kauffman <dekauff at cox.net> wrote:
> I followed the recommendation here but -- No joy -- still get garbage.
>
> I even shut down the system and turned off the power supply thinking
> that maybe there was a "gremlin" somewhere that I could "starve"!! :-) I
> reinstalled the printing system via Yast2.
>
> I'm thinking that it's a hardware problem -- probably a motherboard
> problem. The printer works fine when connected to another system but not
> this one. I would think that reinstalling the software and resetting
> everything would have taken care of this &%$#@! crap!
>
> I'm interested in hearing other people's opinions though.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Don
>
> On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 21:10 -0500, Jake Churchill wrote:
> > A friend of mine had a similar problem with a Canon series with Mandrake.
> > He had to install some extra CUPS package.  Use YaST and install new
> > software.  Search for CUPS and install EVERYTHING you find.  If that doesn't
> > work, then I'm as lost as you.
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: olug-bounces at olug.org [mailto:olug-bounces at olug.org] On Behalf Of Don
> > E. Kauffman
> > Sent: Sunday, October 02, 2005 5:41 PM
> > To: OLUG
> > Subject: [olug] Printing problems under Suse
> >
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I'm getting garbage from my Epson Stylus Photo 82o printer that is
> > connected to my Suse 9.3 box w/ CUPS via my parallel port.  I started to
> > print a page from OpenOffice 2.0 beta (this process has worked before)
> > and since then I've gotten nothing but an unrelenting stream of garbage
> > characters no matter what I try. I've disconnected the printer and
> > turned it on to flush its memory, I've canceled and killed print jobs.
> > I've used lpstat to try and identify the problem job -- nothing shows
> > up.
> >
> > I know the printer works from my laptop so that possibility is
> > eliminated.
> >
> > When I do get the stream stopped the minute I put a test job in the
> > stream it returns to printing garbage characters. Can anyone point me to
> > a resource that will troubleshoot whether it's a hardware or software
> > problem? I've been working on this all afternoon and it's driving me
> > nuts!
> >
> > Any help will be greatly appreciated!! (I will kiss the feet of those
> > who attempt to help -- metaphorically speaking!!)
> >
> > Thanks for any help!!
> >
> > Don K,
>
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