On Tue, Sep 06, 2005 at 05:20:26PM +0800, Michael Lai wrote: > So, I renamed it back to LJ1300 and it worked again. It seemed odd to > me since I didn't think the name of the printer would actually affect > the printing. Still, I accepted this fact but now I discovered a new > problem with the printer. That sounds like some sort of samba issue. > I can print simple document from Notepad but when I try to print a > MSWord document with Japanese or Chinese text, my printer would hang. > On the LaserJet1300, there is a green and orange light. Usually, only > the green light stays on which indicates everything is fine and is in > ready mode. Orange light is reserved for printing errors like paper > jams. When I tried to print a doc with chinese/japanese text in it, the > green light would flash (which indicates that the printer is processing > a print job) and then suddenly it turned orange and the doc would not print. You could try the Pre-Render PostScript option, or try another driver from the drop-down list. > I don't know if this is due to the fact that I am using a test version > of hplib or if it is another setup problem with my printer. If it is > former then should I instead use the hplip from SourceForge? Will that > hplib support asian text? Personally, I would prefer to use the rpm > package since I can just use up2date on it. When will the production > rpm version of hplip come out? The HPLIP RPM package set is the latest version of the software from SourceForge. It is in updates-testing because I'd like it to get more testing before shipping it for all Fedora Core 4 users. I'm hoping that the Fedora Core 5 test releases will give it more thorough testing. Tim. */
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