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gliezl · Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 322 Location: Manila

I happen to drop by my friend's office. I noticed she's still using windows 98. And she has problems with spyware & such stuff. I told her we can try Puppy linux on her PC without affecting her files. I booted Puppy, and to my surprise, it detected all hardware except for one thing, the printer. It is a HP 930c connected via parallel port. My question is, does puppy support such brand of hardware? I tried Printer Wizard, but I can't see the printer's name. What will I do? Would someone be kind enough to help? Confused

I am new to linux.

Ian · Posted: Mon 29 Aug 2005, 23:14 Post subject:

Have you tried using the HP DeskJet 900 series driver in the wizard, sometimes you can get printers working using a different driver.

Bruce B · Posted: Tue 30 Aug 2005, 01:57 Post subject:

the pcl-900 has been reported to work for that printer

if that doesn't work try:

http://www.linuxprinting.org

http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi

gliezl · Joined: 06 Aug 2005 Posts: 322 Location: Manila

Ian · Posted: Tue 30 Aug 2005, 11:30 Post subject:

If you have trouble following the steps in the printer wizard here are some tips.

When you are adding the printer in PDQ make sure that you type in lp0 for a parallel port printer.
In the setup for the printer you may have to remove the % from the path and also you may have to tick EOF.