Re: Need printer help
Subject: Need printer help
Date: Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 01:41:41AM -0500
In reply to:Robbie Huffman
Quoting Robbie Huffman(robbieh@cc.gatech.edu):
>
> I'm hoping someone out here can help me discover why my printer won't print.
>
> Until not very long ago, I was using a Slackware system, and sending my
> infrequent print jobs by hand using "gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=laserjet -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1". Now that I've switched to Debian, I can't get that much to
> work anymore. A good "tunelp /dev/lp1 -r" gets some response from the printer
> (in the form of some printhead movement), but nothing else will. Using gs
> sometimes causes the "busy" light to come on, but it quickly blinks out again.
> The Printing-HOWTO doesn't have any debugging hints. I'm lost. And my only
> guess is that the Debian setup for lpt1 is somehow different. Any pointers?
>
> Thanks,
> Robbie Huffman
> robbieh@cc.gatech.edu
>
do You have a /etc/printcap file? I seem to reall that Slack makes
that for you. If not, get the magicfilter package. Run
magicfilterconfig and answer a few questions. Your printer will then
talk to you, again.
HTH
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revitalize the corner saloon.
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