Dear Luggers,
I finally got the printer to print a document in Open Office. The problem of pages getting ejected without printing was due to a postscript setting in the printer properties in the OO Printer Setup (./spadmin).
The correct command line on OO setup for printing was lpr -P lx300 which I found out from the good site,
http://www.lns.cornell.edu/public/COMP/printing/linux_print.html
However the page still kept getting ejected. This problem was traced to the setting for postscript in the spadmin where the 'from driver' was changed to '1'. This finally printed the page on my lx 300. To cross check I tried 'from driver' and '2' but they ejected the page. Only postscript 1 is accepted by my printer.
The print quality is terrible but this is because it is a postscript printout which is a very basic printout. OO does not support lx300 in its drivers database so only a 'generic printer' can be selected. Generic printer driver supports only postscript. Maybe the new versions of OO 1.1.3 and the preview 2.0 may have better features.
Is there any way by which OO can be forced to use a system's default driver, without postscript?
Regards,
Rony.