Re: Printer Setup
That's what it was... magicfilterconfig kept telling me that a printcap
already exists and would exit unless --force. that can be confusing to
someone who knows squat about linux printing.
Thanks for your help,
Craig
On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 16:27:57 -0700 (MST)
> From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
> To: "Craig R. Hodges" <chodges@Copernicus.Astronomers.org>
> Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Printer Setup
>
> Well, it looks like magicfilter hasn't been configured. I believe this is
> the default printcap installed by lpr. Run magicfilterconfig and you
> should get something similar to:
>
> #
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> #
> # @(#)etc.printcap 5.2 (Berkeley) 5/5/88
> #
> # > This file was generated by /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig. <
> #
> lp|dj|hpdj|HP Deskjet 520:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj:\
> :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj500-filter:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
>
>
> On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Craig R. Hodges wrote:
>
> > Here's my printcap:
> > lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
> > :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > :df=/etc/filter.ps:\
> > :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
> > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> > :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> > :pl#66:\
> > :pw#80:\
> > :pc#150:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :sh:
> >
> >
> > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> >
> > > Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 15:43:14 -0700 (MST)
> > > From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
> > > To: "Craig R. Hodges" <chodges@Copernicus.Astronomers.org>
> > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > Subject: Re: Printer Setup
> > >
> > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Craig R. Hodges wrote:
> > >
> > > > With lpr as the print command in Netscape, my printer prints:
> > > >
> > > > %!PS-Adobe-3.0
> > > > %%BoundingBox: 54 72 558 720
> > > > %%Creator: Mozilla (NetScape) HTML -> PS
> > > >
> > > > and then starts feeding sheets. I have a HP Deskjet 682C which doesn't
> > > > understand postscript.
> > >
> > > But lpr should feed it through the magicfilter and gs, which converts
> > > postscript to hpgl. What do you have in /etc/printcap?
> > >
> > > Bob
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Bob Nielsen wrote:
> > > >
> > > > > Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 14:27:29 -0700 (MST)
> > > > > From: Bob Nielsen <nielsen@primenet.com>
> > > > > To: "Craig R. Hodges" <chodges@Copernicus.Astronomers.org>
> > > > > Cc: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > > > > Subject: Re: Printer Setup
> > > > >
> > > > > I just use lpr as my print command in Netscape and the output gets sent to
> > > > > gs and the printer via magicfilter.
> > > > >
> > > > > Bob
> > > > >
> > > > > On Wed, 27 Jan 1999, Craig R. Hodges wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > > I've installed gs-aladdin, gsfonts, magicfilter from slink.
> > > > > > In Netscape I put for the print command
> > > > > > gs --sModel=unspec --sOutputFile=\|lpr
> > > > > >
> > > > > > It'll pop-up a Ghostscript "preview" window in X and after a couple
> > > > > > minutes (if I'm printing a web page with graphics or instantly if just
> > > > > > text) get a stdout/stderr
> > > > > >
> > > > > > The message is
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Aladdin Ghostscript 5.50 (1998-9-16)
> > > > > > Copyright (etc., etc.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <GS><GS>...GS<71>GS...
> > > > > >
> > > > > > (etc. etc.)
> > > > > >
> > > > > > ...Loading NimbusRomNo9L - Medi font from
> > > > > > /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021004l.pfb... (a bunch of numbers) 0 done.
> > > > > > ...Loading NimbusRomNo9L - Reguital font from
> > > > > > /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021023l.pfb... (a bunch of numbers) 0 done.
> > > > > > ...Loading NimbusRomNo9L - Mediltal font from
> > > > > > /usr/lib/ghostscript/fonts/n021024l.pbf... 2023936 708506 1329168 38317 0
> > > > > >
> > > > > > <<stderr diagnostics have been truncated >>
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Any ideas?
> > > > > >
> > > > > > Thanks,
> > > > > > Craig
> > > > > >
> > > > > >
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