New subject: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. (Roger)

25 Mar 2013


      Hi Roger,
...
I too have Fedora 18 64 bit. Have always had trouble with Xerox laser printer
in Fedora Linux, all versions, for years. It has never been auto detected.
You may need the ppd file, I can send my fxlinuxprint.ppd if you wish or
google for it. Copy it to /usr/share/cups/model/
My Xerox only seems to work if I jump thru the below hoops.
First in Printers > Print Settings > Add, I have to enter my password 2 times
(one of the Fedora 18 vagaries) which brings me to Select Device:
In this dialog select LPT#1 > Forward> it will search for drivers.
In the next dialog "Choose Driver" select > Provide a ppd file and navigate
to > File system /usr/share/cups/models and choose one of these:
fxlinuxprint.ppd
pxlcolor.ppd
pxlmono.ppd
I find that only the last 2 work, so I have created both a color and a mono
laser printer.
From here in follow the prompts and complete the printer set up.
BUT
Now the hard part.
This is set up as LPT and needs to be changed to USB. To do this I need to go
back to > Print Settings double click on the printer I just created and in
...
Printer Properties change the > Device URI to what ever suits your system,
on mine it is: usb://FUJI%20XEROX/DocuPrint%20C2100
-- Finding the correct URI is the difficult part. I think I got this some
time ago from my Ubuntu setup where printer was auto detected.
Click Ok and the printer should be available and should now print.
I'm sure others have no trouble and It's just my Xerox but hey this is my way
of resolving Xerox hassles.
Hope this helps
Roger
I'll give this a try and let you (and the list) know the outcome.  I may need more help with that "URI" step.
thanks,
Bill.

Re: no printout, but no other hint of error. F18. (Roger)