Printer Administration

E.11 Printer Administration

E.11.1 I am having trouble setting up my printer. My printer is not listed in the printer configuration tool.

Due to licensing problems, we can not ship the latest ghostscript. It is however available for download in the directory (having been contributed by another Red Hat user):

http://www.users.dircon.co.uk/~typhoon/

This later version of ghostscript supports many more printers.

E.11.2 I have a Canon BJC printer and it isn't printing properly.

If you have a Canon BJC printer and it is not working with 5.0, you may want to try editing /var/spool/lpd/lp/postscript.cfg. Commenting out the line:

COLOR=-dBitsPerPixel=1

has been effective for some users with Canon BJC printers.

E.11.3 When I print, lines from my printout get truncated.

Some printers truncate ASCII lines when printing a page. This is how the printer handles lines that are too long. The text must be run through something that will format the text, like pr or mpage before sending it to the printer.