Printing problem

[Madison Kelly]

Hi all, this is a reply for the archive. The problem turned out to be a 
dieing printer. When I moved it to a windows box it still didn't work. I 
unplugged it from the mains and plugged it back in and voila, all was good.

Madison

Madison Kelly wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
>   I have setup a Redhat 9.0 machine (fully updated) which has a Canon
> BJC4300 printer. There is a Win98 laptop here as well. The printer is on
> the Linux bos of the parallel port (lp0, iirc).
> 
>   I had the printer working just fine. I installed a second printer also
> to use lp0 using a raw driver that was shared in Samba (needed to use
> raw because  the win98 tried to format the print job and then so did
> samba again). All was good and both machines printed fine for a day or
> two. Now, I can't get either to print at all. I am in the middle of yet
> again removing and reinstalling the printer using  Redhat's printer
> configuration util.
> 
>   Does anyone have any insight into what might be wrong?
> 
>   Thanks!
> 
> Madison
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