Re: DeskJet 870

[Alec Smith <sweetin@ix.netcom.com>]

I'll have to give it a try later... Thanks.

People have suggested the 550c filter, but all it seems to do is spit out
blank pages and partial print jobs when I print from a Winblows system to
the Linux box using Samba. Someone else sent a modified filter more
specific to an 870 and it just plain didn't work. And here I was thinking
that making the 870 work would be just as easy as setting up an old
DeskJet 520.


Alec



On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jay Barbee wrote:

> At 1/21/99 04:21 PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote:
> >Could anyone tell me how to make my DeskJet 870 operate under Debian? For
> >example, a filter for Magicfilter or whichever.
> >
> 
> My Djet 870Cxi is on a NT system that Debian still accesses via LPR.  But I
> did at one point have it hooked up and shared from Debian.  Here is how it
> looked in my printcap:
> 
>  dj|djet870|HP Deskjet 870:\
>         :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet870:\
>         :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
>         :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj500c-filter:\
>         :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
> 
> I will say that I did have problem with the magicfilter program.  The
> actual 550c driver that it installed filter would not execute.  I don't
> know if that was a bug or not, I got a new copy of that filter (older
> version maybe) and put it in its place, and I have never had a problem.
> 
> I will attach the driver I use (4.73k).
> 
> Other than that, you need to have the queue created in /var/spool/lpd:
> drwxrwxr-x   2 lp       lp           1024 Dec 16 09:36 djet870/
> ..you can use a 'cp -a lp djet870' in the /var/spool/lpd directory, and
> that should handle it for you.  
> 
> I know all of this sounds manual, but if the magicfilter install was a bit
> much, this could be an easier route for you.
> 
> Hope it helps
> --Jay