printer and OpenOffice

So, I have just installed Red Hat 8.0 on my Gateway 2500 laptop. I like the Gnome desktop, and OpenOffice looks like it might be really nice. My problem is in getting OpenOffice to communicate with my printer. My printer is a HP694C.

I have installed the printer with printool, at least I think it was print tool. (I don't have all the info in front of me.) I can print from a linux terminal screen using the lpr command. I have used the OpenOffice printer install program. I think I have installed the HP694C as the default printer in OpenOffice. When I try to print a document from Open Office, the printer will pull in a sheet of paper and maybe print a little bit on it that has nothing to do with my document, the pull in another sheet of paper, and it repeats this until all the paper has been run through the printer.

I sure need some advice. Please reply through e-mail, 'cause I dont read the newsgroups much. (It is real slow to do so.).

Yeah, you are certainly right, we know exactly how you feel. Reading newsgroups is a waste of your, and our, precious time. We all agree with you and plan to adopt your behavioral model. That is why no one read your post.

That is why you are not going to receive any help.

When you learn how Usenet works, post again.

I had a similar problem in that I'd get raw Postscript code sent to the printer, which wasn't a Postscript printer. You may want to ensure that apsfilter (think that was the name) is installed on your system: It's supposed to detect Postscript code and sent it on to Ghostscript if need be. I wasn't able to get it working correctly under Debian, so I just removed lpr altogether and installed CUPS (Common Unix Printing System) along with the associated ps2raster package. THAT worked. In addition, I installed kprint, a graphical front-end to CUPS. This comes in handy for certain apps which aren't too CUPS-aware, like Mozilla.