Getting a BJC2100SP to work

[Richard Rose]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 20:17, Ben Elliston wrote:
> Richard,
>
> >>>>> "Richard" == Richard Rose <richard58 at bigpond.com> writes:
>
>   Richard> I am having a bit of trouble getting a Canon BJC2100SP printer
> to work on my Richard> RedHat 7.2 Box. Nothing I do seems to be able to get
> anything to print. I Richard> have even tried sending raw text to /dev/lp0
> but to no avail. Can anyone tell Richard> me what I am missing.
>
> Have you tried using `printtool'?
>
>
That's what I used to try and set it up. It appears to recognise the printer 
but when I restart the LPD and try to send a test page, nothing seems to 
happen. I checked lpq and can see that it is trying to send something to the 
printer but it quits after 3 attempts.

Richard R :-)