Re: Epson 740
Ment (may I call you Ment? ;),
Thanks for your reply. :) Sometimes I feel pretty thick, since I've been
using Debian for about 3 years and still stumble over stuff like this.
*sigh* Anywayssss, you willing to spoon-feed me a bit, here?
I already had gsfonts installed, so I installed apsfilter using dselect.
It ran me through the config, and I chose the following printer:
escp2: Epson ESC/P 2 language printers, including Stylus 800
I set the other values it asked for, and it finished, saying cheerfully
'we made it!'. ;)
I then attempted to print a text file with:
# lpr <file>
and got this output:
no printcap for printer 'ascii'
job 'cfA758doma.mattyt.net' transfer to ascii@localhost failed
Here is the printcap that was generated by apsfilter:
##
## Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
## All rights reserved.
##
## Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
## provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given
## to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University
## may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
## software without specific prior written permission. This software
## is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.
##
## @(#)etc.printcap 5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88
##
## This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig.
##
#lp|hpdj660|HP DeskJet 660:\
# :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj660:\
# :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
# :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter:\
# :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
# LABEL apsfilter
# apsfilter setup Sat May 13 12:03:33 PDT 2000
#
# APS_BASEDIR:/usr/lib/apsfilter
#
#
ascii|lp1|escp2-letter-ascii-mono|escp2 ascii mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-ascii-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-ascii-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-ascii-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-escp2-letter-ascii-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp|lp2|escp2-letter-auto-mono|escp2 auto mono:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-auto-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-auto-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-auto-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-escp2-letter-auto-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp3|escp2-letter-ascii-color|escp2 ascii color:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-ascii-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-ascii-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-ascii-color/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-escp2-letter-ascii-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp4|escp2-letter-auto-color|escp2 auto color:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-auto-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-auto-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-letter-auto-color/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-escp2-letter-auto-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
raw|lp5|escp2-letter-raw|escp2 auto raw:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-raw/acct:\
:if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-escp2-letter-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
I'm afraid I don't know where to go from here. BTW, I'm using lprng
instead of lpr on a friend's suggestion (rcw@debian.org), if that makes
any difference.
Hope I'm not too big a PITA. :)
Cheers.......................
On Sat, 13 May 2000, Mental wrote:
> On Fri, May 12, 2000 at 06:39:57PM -0700, Matthew Thompson wrote:
> > Hello, all,
> >
> > I recently purchased a 740 for my home network. I have a Debian 2.1
> > server with magicfilter and gs-5.10 installed. I was unable to get the
> > printer to work with any of the normally available filters in magicfilter.
>
> Hi Matt,
>
> I recently just setup my epson 1520. I'd imagine from what I read that
> they're fairly similar. I tried using magicfilter, and ran into similar
> problems. I wound up using apsfilter. Setting up the printer was
> easy. I wound up with several printer defs. ascii, so I can print
> from mutt and the console (lpr -P ascii), a couple stcolor printer
> defs for printing in color, and a raw def that I'm using for the
> windows machines to print on (samba). It works great, I love this
> printer.
>
> qualification: it was easy after I figured out that the reason the
> test page printed errors was because I needed to install gsfonts.
> If you dont install the gsfonts package, printing postscript files
> wont work. Netscape prints out in ps format. So install gsfonts,
> grab apsfilter and setup your printer.
>
> --
> Mental
>
> "When in doubt, use brute force."
> --Ken Thompson (author of unix)
>
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