If you haven't already tried it, the following site may provide some info:
The driver listing here does not unfortunately have LQ 1040+, nor LQ 1050, but has LQ 850 and LQ 2550 which may be compatible (all are 24-pin).
Satish
On Thu, 15 Jul 2004 21:48:43 +0530, Senthil_OR wrote
-----Original Message----- From: swathantra software ........... Could anyone please help us in getting dot matrix printer working in Openoffice?. Kannur district administration is getting migrated to GNU/Linux and as part of it few section has got GNU/Linux Redhat 9 installed. All sections has got dot matrix printer Model WIPRO HQ 1040+( 24 pin). Using printtool in RH9, local printer is configured using driver epson LQ1050 ( "omni" driver)( we do not know what is the compatible driver in Linux for this Model, so tried epson LQ1050). A test print from printool worked just fine. But in OpenOffice we can not get any printout. When we tried the driver epson "dot matrix" ( driver "epsonc") OpenOffice did print, but the quality was very poor and print is not clear. The printer works just fine in Windows. Could anyone please help us to fix the problem.?.
Not a direct help, but I have heard this kind of a situation before, wherein One guy was having similar troubles with printing documents with Openoffice on a dot matrix printer. He said that when tried with AbiWord, the printout was proper. Did you try with Abiword or any other word processing software? Or if it is just a text document,directly to the printer?
Lets also check with bugs open with the Oo.org
Cheers! Senthil
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