misc. printer question

[Fred Yankowski <fcy@mcs.net>]

Paul McDermott writes:

 > I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c.  First does
 > magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother
 > filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to
 > make a filter.

I just set up my HP Deskjet 870Cse.  Magicfilter did not have a
specific filter file for that, but 'dj550c-filter' seems to work well
enough.  It took me a while to discover that I also need the 'djtools'
package to get the djscript program used by 'df550c-filter'.  The
'netpbm' and 'libjpeg-*' packages bring in some other filter programs
used by that magicfilter configuration.

It would be nice if magicfilter did a better job of reporting the
cases where the necessary filter programs aren't installed.  Perhaps
I'm overlooking some useful log file, but all I would see was an 'lpr'
command that would run quietly, but no job would be queued and nothing
would print.  The '--debug' option to magicfilter was useful though.

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Fred Yankowski