On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 11:30 -0800, Cameron Showalter wrote: > > Ranbir > > > what type of okidata line printer and how is it connected to the > network? It's an Okidata ML395. It's connected to a Windows 2000 PC (which we want to get rid of, but can't because of the printer and one Windows app), where the printer is being shared. I've setup the Windows printer in CUPS as a Samba printer and raw queue. > there are some generic dot matrix drivers for linux out > there that may work for you, and depending on your model some model > specific linux drivers at okidata.com. I've tried the generic dot matrix drivers, and everything suggested on the linuxprinting.org website multiple times. Nothing has ever worked. Every driver I've tried produces reams of pages with garbage on them. It's really weird since the printer itself has a few different emulation modes, and they all have equivalent drivers in CentOS 4. But, they simply don't work. When I think about that printer my blood pressure rises. Anyway, printing is working except from OpenOffice.org. I guess it's sending a postscript document to the printer and the Windows driver doesn't understand postscript, thinks the print job is just plain text, and starts printing it. But, like I said, I don't know much about printing systems, so I'm probably wrong. Regards, Ranbir -- Kanwar Ranbir Sandhu Linux 2.6.19-1.2895.fc6 i686 GNU/Linux 14:34:31 up 23:29, 2 users, load average: 0.50, 0.32, 0.25