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Title: The printer isnīt supported by Linux

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The printer isnīt supported by Linux

Symptom:

Your printer is not contained in the list of devices supported by ghostscript.

Cause:

The device is too new, or unknown, or is not yet supported officially. So far there is no official support for GDI printers; GDI printers are Windows-only hardware -- however please read the article quoted below.

Solution:

First of all, it should be tested, whether the printer can be used in one of the emulations that are available. It should always be usable as a normal ASCII printer. Just configure an arbitrary printer and print with lpr -Praw FILE .

In order to access the full functionality of this printer, please follow the steps below :

If you have a new printer type and manage to get it to work, then feedback is of course welcome ! We then need information about the operating mode that you used. We're also interested in information about printers, that don't run at all under S.u.S.E. Linux. Please check http://www.suse.de/cdb/english/ whether we already have information about the failure of that printer, before you send us an email about it.

Thanks !

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Keywords: PRINTER, PRINTING, UNSUPPORTED, GS, GHOSTSCRIPT, GDI

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Categories: Printer

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