Getting a BJC2100SP to work

[Richard Rose]

On Sat, 2 Feb 2002 21:12, Damien Elmes wrote:
> Richard Rose <richard58 at bigpond.com> writes:
> > Hi All,
> >
> > I am having a bit of trouble getting a Canon BJC2100SP printer to work on
> > my RedHat 7.2 Box. Nothing I do seems to be able to get anything to
> > print. I have even tried sending raw text to /dev/lp0 but to no avail.
> > Can anyone tell me what I am missing.
>
> Newer Canon printers no longer even except plain text. Check
> http://www.linuxprinting.org to see what support is like under Linux

Checked there. Basically the printer should work with the stp drivers but the 
person who wrote the blurb said that they had only tried it as a USB device. 
I picked up a USB cable but still no joy (yes I did change the config to look 
at /dev/usb/lp0)

Richard R :-)