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Re: PRINTER device on Linux [message #41517 is a reply to message #41516]

Tue, 02 November 2004 08:12

KM
Messages: 29
Registered: October 2004

Junior Member

On Tue, 2 Nov 2004, David Fanning wrote:
> Has anyone gotten the PRINTER device to work on a Linux machine?
Never tried.

> I got my printer apparently set us and my computer able to send
> info to the printer. But when I send output (an image), I get the
> error message:
>
> %Can't set RGB color on an indexed destination.
What type of image? Some 3-channel RGB I am guessing? That might be
the problem. Have you tried a bitmap, or an {E}PS?

> A page comes out of the printer, but there is nothing on it. Any
> ideas on what this might mean? Or, on how I might fix it?
It sounds like the destination doesn't take RGB data, only indexed
files. But I haven't dealt with this exact message myself.

-k.

P.S. Who are you, and what have you done with David Fanning? I
thought you didn't do low-level Linux :) Next, are you going to be
writing in with emacs IDLWAVE questions?

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		Re: PRINTER device on Linux By: David Fanning on Tue, 02 November 2004 13:02
		Re: PRINTER device on Linux By: mperrin+news on Tue, 02 November 2004 12:54
		Re: PRINTER device on Linux By: David Fanning on Tue, 02 November 2004 08:22
		Re: PRINTER device on Linux By: KM on Tue, 02 November 2004 08:12

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