first step
Make sure the printer is accesible through your parallel device.
Try this:
$ echo "hello world" > /dev/lp0
or
$ echo "yellow world" > /dev/lp1
and if you have proper parallel support, your printer will print
that. Then you will have to manually feed the page.
Then proceed to the next step.
brian
On Sun, Feb 06, 2000 at 11:58:23PM -0800, Beth Camero wrote:
>
> >What are you trying to do? Your kid prints from Windows to a printer
> >connected to where? Your Linux box? Or is it a network printer?
>
> The printer (HP Deskjet 820 Cse) is attached to my Windows machine. I am
> set up to share my printer, so my kid prints to it across the network. I'm
> sure there are better ways to do what I'm doing, but it works like this
> so..... I want the linux box to be able to do the same thing. Possible?
>
> And what do you suppose I'm doing wrong trying to run printtool if it tells
> me it can't bind something and then tells me I don't have $DISPLAY set up
> right?
> I don't know enough to do this, I suppose, but I can't seem to let it alone.
>
> Thanks -
> Beth
>
> PS: I love the sacbee website, you guys are really all over it.
>
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