[CentOS] printer problem

Frank Cox

theatre at melvilletheatre.com
Fri Jun 8 20:50:36 UTC 2012


On Fri, 8 Jun 2012 16:42:34 -0400
m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:

> I d/l gutenprint, and that has a driver for this printer. I have a more
> serious problem, it appears: no matter what position I move the lever on
> the back right, and hold in the paper feed, no paper feeds, and so it
> doesn't print its firmware self-test page.... Can't see anything jamming
> it.

Many printers have a built-in test page that will print if you hold button X on
the printer down for Y seconds.  You can usually print a test page even if the
printer isn't attached to a computer.

If that's not happening, then the printer has hardware (mechanical) problems.

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