Re: Slink upgrade broke printer configuration
On Sat, 20 Mar 1999, Mike O'Donnell wrote:
I also have noticed some strange printer behaviour. I use magicfilter, and
have periodically had a printing problem with ps files after the upgrade.
Once it produced another page with junk on it and the other time it
printed several extra pages. Have you rerun the magicfilter config
program?
John
>
> I just upgraded from Hamm to Slink. Everything appears to be fine,
> except that my printer configuration is broken. I've hunted all the
> places that I know to look for the problem, to no avail.
>
> I'm using magicfilter with an Epson Stylus Color 400 printer. After
> the upgrade to Slink
>
> 1. ASCII prints, but the page is not ejected at the end (a minor
> annoyance, but perhaps a useful symptom),
>
> 2. PostScript causes an unlimited number of pages to be run through
> and ejected, with nothing printed on them.
>
> I've tried printing PostScript with enscript, dvips, lpr, and Lyx,
> with the same results. I've tried the lprng package as well as the lpr
>
> package. I checked /etc/printcap, /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl
> against the older versions, and they are unchanged. /etc/init.d/lpd
> changed, but the changes appear to have to do only with control of
> starting and stopping the daemon, rather than actual print
> configuration.
>
> What other locations for printer configuration am I overlooking?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike O'Donnell
> odonnell@cs.uchicago.edu
>
>
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