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Printers



> I'm new at kernels and new at configuring printers, which is probably not a 
> good combination in this situation. Are there any suggestions about this? 
> Have people successfully configured a printer with kernel 2.2.x? I'm trying 
> to use an HP deskjet if that means anything.

Boy, is this annoying to here.  Setting up a printer should be trivial by 
now.  But Sun has made the same mistake - they paid virtually no attention
to setting up printers, and it's a headache.

I was pleased to find with RedHat 5.2 that setting up a Deskjet on my machine
was as easy as getting a printer to work with Mickysoft boxes.  But it
seems that the basic Linux support just isn't there, if this complaint is
representative.

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