Re: [Sheflug] printer help

[Lesley Binks <lesley.binks@xxxxxxxxx>]

Richard Ibbotson wrote:
> 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/
> 
Well it looks like the list is fscked again Richard

A post I made about cherry keybds hasn't turned up yet and I certainly
didn't see the original post about this.

Plus the OP's email addy is removed from the post so I can't even be
sure this will get back to him.

This is probably no help at all but I've always used cups - works fine
with an Epson I recycled two years ago and my current HP 6540.

My Epson was a venerable Stylus 740 and that always worked fine but some
of the Epsons don't work too well so I plumped for HP when it was time
for a new printer.

This page shows your printer 'works mostly'
http://openprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=Epson-Stylus_D88
What that 'mostly' is, I have no idea.

I suggest you check/replace drivers and then try cups in case turboprint
is causing the problem.

HTH

Regards

L.

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