Re: [Sheflug] printer help

[Richard Ibbotson <richard@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Robert

> I haven't posted for years, things have been going right,
> but I now have a problem, I'm running Suse 10 and printing on an
> Epson stylus
> d88 plus, driven  by turboprint, this is the problem
> when I print I get lines , as if there where a bit missing in the
> print out,
> (I go back to apple2 and this ment the 8th bit was missing}
> but when I print turboprints test page it has no lines and is
> perfect. where do I look to solve this problem?

I don't think I can give you any real help.  I haven't seen this one 
since SuSE 6.xx or 7.xx.  Shows you what Novell have been doing just 
lately :)   Only thing I can do is point you at this...

http://www.linux-foundation.org/en/OpenPrinting
http://www.faqs.org/docs/Linux-HOWTO/Printing-HOWTO.html

Which isn't much help.  I've always had problems with Linux and my own 
Epson Stylus Color 300 printer.   I get a similar fault.   If you 
want to upgrade from SuSE 10.0 don't go to 10.1.  There's a lot wrong 
with it.  I'm running OpenSuSE 10.2 on a box over here and all that 
was wrong with OpenSuSE 10.1 has been fixed.   CDs from...

http://www.cheapiso.com/

-- 
Richard

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