Color works fine. Fire up printtool as root and select your printer then
edit
In the print filter there is a selection for the color bits. You
probably took the default 8 bits which will give you a great b&w printer
with 256 shades of gray. Select 24bit color and you should enjoy some
nice color output.
Tom
Alvaro Nunes wrote:
>
> Hi
>
> Can you make color prints or only black & white? I ask this because I have a
> Deskjet 970Cxi and only prints on B&W.
>
> Thanks
> Alvaro
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Berkley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 8:55 PM
> Subject: Re: [expert] Solved: Printer problem in mdk 7.0
>
> > I have an HP Deskjet 895 with USB and parallel cables attached
> > simultaneously. Works fine but when I print from Win98 thru the USB
> > cable and then reboot to linux and try to use the parallel cable
> > connection, the printer must be powered off before I attempt any printer
> > access or I have to reboot again after cycling the printer power to make
> > the printer work with linux.
> >
> > Tom
> >
> > Norman Carver wrote:
> > >
> > > Printer is now working via parallel port. Problem
> > > appeared to be due to having both the usb and parallel
> > > cables attached to the printer. Win98 has no problem
> > > with this with the Epson, but Linux appears to--no
> > > output as I mentioned in earlier post. While we had tried
> > > disconnecting this cable and rebooting before (without
> > > success), we may not have shut printer down in between
> > > as we did this time. So usb cable has been removed.
> > > Still a bit hard to understand how this can be the issue.
> > > If the Epson works fine with both attached in Win98, why
> > > won't it work under Linux?
> > >
> > > Anyway, my friends setup is a bit closer. Now if we can
> > > just get X configured nicely for his Rage Pro Turbo.
> > > He is getting ghosting, which I gather implies improper
> > > settings. Perhaps will post on this later if we cannot
> > > make progress.
> > >
> > > Thanks,
> > > Norm Carver
> >
