RE: DeskJet 870
I have a Canon 4200 setup on my linux box and print to it from win98.
The shared printer doesn't have any local filters on it and the win98
box uses the driver for the printer. Works just fine (and all the
setting , ie color et al). You might want to try just setting the samba
shared printer with no filters and the win box with the correct driver.
Either that or see if you can convince win to just print with out
formating the text for the printer and let the linux box deal with it.
--Dano
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Alec Smith [SMTP:sweetin@ix.netcom.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 22, 1999 12:17 PM
> To: Jay Barbee
> Subject: Re: DeskJet 870
>
> 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
>
>
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