Re: Using obsolete Laser printers with Debian
On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote:
> The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and
> parallel interfaces. It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows.
> In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script. I am using
> Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript
> document to the printer it justs hangs. A log file says "25% done...50%
Hi,
I had a similar problem (using gs and magicfilter). I found that
ghostscript crashed while converting the PS-file to PCL. The effect was
that lpq said "all xxx bytes printed" but the printer remained silent and
no errormessages were generated. You might try to call the gs-commandline
for magicfilter from shell to see if gs hangs and fiddle with the drivers
or additional gs-switches to get it working.
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