Re: setting up lprng

[Jens Ritter <jens@weh.rwth-aachen.de>]

On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Chris Frost wrote:

> On 22 Nov 1998, Jens Ritter wrote:
> 
> > Install magicfilter and run magicfilterconfig.
> Ahh, very nice; thanks! When I print postscript files it still just sends
> text to the printer (using the deskjet 855c filter fwiw), any ideas?

You have installed magicfilter and you did run magicfilterconfig --force
if necessary?
Is ghostscript installed?

> > P.S.: This will (hopefully) yield a running system. Later you can scan
> > the manpages of "printcap", "lpd", "lpr" and "lpd.perms", see also:
> > /usr/doc/lprng...  
> Nothing that mentioned the problem; the filter I'm using has entries for
> postscript; not sure why they aren't being used.

Please post the printer entry from /etc/printcap.

HTH,

Jens
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