Re: Linux Users ...... newbie needs help
- Posted by ChrisB (moderator) Apr 18, 2009
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Hi
Printing is a nightmare on Linux - Linux printer drivers always lag behind printer development. Its because the Linux userbase lags the Windows userbase, and printer manufacturers don't make Linux drivers routinely.
However, if you have a printer that is not supported by CUPS then you can often (not always) get it working, by substituting other, older drivers, and living without some of the features.
This is not the forum for printer problems (try Ubuntu forums, there's plenty of printer stuff on their).
You don't say if you are using CUPS, but if you are, and you can print a test page from within the web interface (open a browser, and type "localhost:631"), then you can print a text file by doing (from the command line)
lpr -P[printer_name] [text_file_to_print]
Whats more, using CUPS, you can often print post script files, and using some scripts convert on the fly text to .ps (using enscript), and pdf files directly.
Hope this gets you started.
Chris
