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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 on 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! In such cases we would need information about the operating mode that you used. We're also interested in information about printers that don't run at all under SuSE Linux. Please check http://www.suse.de/cdb/english/ to see if we already have information about the failure of your 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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