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Hi, everyone,

I am having printing problems under Caldera OpenLinux 2.3.  I am trying to
get my Epson Stylus Color 600 (which worked perfectly under Red Hat 5.x/6.0)

going.  At the most basic level, if I type:

cat test.txt > /dev/lp0

My printer will spit out the text file, so it is not a hardware issue.  I
believe it has something to do with lpd configuration.  In any case, the
usual method of adding the printer with COAS was used.  I changed my
printfilter file to the one in the Caldera knowledgebase.  I changed the #
localhost=localhost line in  /etc/lpd.conf to localhost=caitlyn.vnet.net
(the hostname required by my ISP for my fixed IP service).  None of this has

any impact.  If I print I do not get an error message, but nothing prints.

Any suggestions on where to look next would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Caity

Go to www.linuxdoc.org and check  out some of the printing how tos.

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Quote:> Hi, everyone,

> I am having printing problems under Caldera OpenLinux 2.3.  I am trying to
> get my Epson Stylus Color 600 (which worked perfectly under Red Hat
5.x/6.0)

> going.  At the most basic level, if I type:

> cat test.txt > /dev/lp0

> My printer will spit out the text file, so it is not a hardware issue.  I
> believe it has something to do with lpd configuration.  In any case, the
> usual method of adding the printer with COAS was used.  I changed my
> printfilter file to the one in the Caldera knowledgebase.  I changed the #
> localhost=localhost line in  /etc/lpd.conf to localhost=caitlyn.vnet.net
> (the hostname required by my ISP for my fixed IP service).  None of this
has

> any impact.  If I print I do not get an error message, but nothing prints.

> Any suggestions on where to look next would be greatly appreciated.

> Thanks,
> Caity

Don't you think I would have done that *before* posting?  Been there, done
that, everything seems to be as it should be and still does not work.

You know, "RTFM" answers are no help whatsoever, especially when one already
has.

-Caity

If You find an answer let me know Caitlyn.