HP LaserJet 1000

[Rick Stevens]

Mario St-Gelais wrote:
> I started not so long ago with Linux.  Initially, I installed SUSE Linux 
> and with some pain was able to install my HP printer.
> 
> Then I switched to Fedora and I haven't been able to make that damn 
> printer puke some printed stuff.  I followed all instructions as per 
> http://www.linuxprinting.org/ without success.  When I do "cat 
> sihp1000.img > /dev/usb/lp0" the printer burps out some noise indicating 
> I guess that the driver is being loaded buy yet it won't print.  Looking 
> at log files I get all kind of messages according to flavor of the day I 
> guess : "paper tray empty" or "printer faults".  But I damn know it is 
> not empty.
> 
> What am I gonna do switch back to SUSE??

Try opening the image in gimp or another image viewer ("RedHat
icon->Graphics->The gimp" or "->More Graphics Applications->Image
Viewer") and print from there?  Spewing an image directly to the printer
port is guaranteed NOT to work (it wouldn't in Windows or any other
OS to my knowledge...it's gotta go through some software driver
somehow).
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