[NTLUG:Discuss] Printer setup?

[David Neeley]

You will likely receive many responses. Solving the printing problems for 
your printer with such an old version of Linux will be a definite learning 
experience.

However, I believe Mandrake 8 would be a major step up. Two-CD versions are 
floating around for $10 or so--

I just installed this version on a friend's machine. It saw his printer 
correctly and automatically installed CUPS (common UNIX printing system) 
and Ghostscript and asked if we wanted a test page. When we said yes, it 
printed flawlessly--and has been doing so since.

I don't believe you'd have any problem with that distribution--and you 
would also have the 2.4 kernel (a big step up from the one on Caldera 2.2 
or 2.4) and the later Xwindows (also a big improvement) etc. etc.

I am sure there are folks on the list who can give you in great detail how 
to print to your printer from your present distribution if it can be done. 
I am also sure you would learn quite a bit in the process. However, when 
there is a cheap alternative available that is so much better in so many 
ways, I'd rather spend my time learning other things that have a bit more 
interest!

Good luck.

David



At 10:39 AM 14-09-01 -0500, you wrote:
>I am a rookie LINUX user, trying to get my printer setup and I am not
>having any success.  Here is the setup: Caldera 2.2 (the price was
>right) and a Epson Stylus Color 600 printer on parallel port 1.