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ghostscript, apsfilter, and SMB/WIN client question



Hi all, Happy New Year.
Thought I'd finish out the year with one newbiesque question. At work,
I'm trying to print from my Debian box (woody) on a Lexmark Optra M412
(a postscript compatible laser printer) connected to a networked Windows
machine. I'm presently using apsfilter and lpr (although I had exactly
the same problem using lprngtool and lprng). Anyway, below is my present
/etc/printcap. I tried two settings, one named kinetics, the other named
ghostprint. 

I can print just fine from most applications, including Evolution,
Gnumeric,Gimp, Acrobat Reader and Galeon. Where I have problems is with
gv and gnome-gv. Strangely enough,KGhostview prints just fine with
ghostprint. Any idea why gv and gnome-gv don't print? I have them
printing to the same place as the others, either:
"/usr/bin/lpr -Pghostprint"
or 
"/usr/bin/lpr -Pkinetics"

Thanks in advance for your advice 
-Glen

# /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
# You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
# your own filters. See /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl and
# the printcap(5) manual page for further details.

# APS1_BEGIN:printer1
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
kinetics|PS;r=1200x1200;q=high;c=full;p=letter;m=raw:\
    :lp=/dev/null:\
    :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/kinetics:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/kinetics/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/kinetics/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sf:\
    :sh:
# APS1_END - don't delete this
# APS2_BEGIN:printer2
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer2
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
ghostprint|PSgs;r=1200x1200;q=high;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\
    :lp=/dev/null:\
    :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ghostprint:\
    :lf=/var/spool/lpd/ghostprint/log:\
    :af=/var/spool/lpd/ghostprint/acct:\
    :mx#0:\
    :sh:
# APS2_END - don't delete this




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