Re: Ubuntu printing problem

I found out what the problem was. At one point I tried to print a label
with gLabels. This locked up the printer. To get things going again I
just had to restart the printer.

The gLabels problem has something to with the font I was using. I don't
know much about gLabels so I just stuck with the default settings. When
I changed the font to Times New Roman it printed just fine.

I spent all morning trying to figure this one out. I'm happy that it
wasn't a problem with Ubuntu.

 
Joshua J. Kugler wrote:
> On Thursday 10 August 2006 12:24, Damien Hull wrote:
>
>> I don't know for sure but I think printing in Ubuntu is broken. I can't
>> print anything. Even if I cat a file to /dev/lp0 I don't get anything. I
>> sent an email to the Ubuntu list. If I get something back I'll post it.
>>
>
> This is a long shot, but since I had this similar problem the other day, I'll
> try.
>
> First: does /dev/lp0 exist? if so, you many ignore this e-mail. If not, read
> on.
>
> The other day my little one got to my computer power button. Well, I think
> the power cycled too fast, because apparently the BIOS got cleared (it's
> happened before), and after much troubleshooting and
> uninstalling/reinstalling printers, etc, I finally realized there was
> no /dev/lp0. Rebooted, went to BIOS and saw the parallel port was disabled.
> That fixed that problem.
>
> So, anyway, FYI, HTH, FWIW, IMNSHO, IIRC, ROFL, YMMV, and DUMB. :)
>
> j
>
>

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Received on Thu Aug 10 15:12:12 2006