Re: Configuring printer (HP 870Cxi)
On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 06:06:47PM +0000, you wrote:
> Hi to all
> I'm using Debian Potato and, I must say, it's wonderful, even if it's
> unstable (sometimes WindowMaker 0.6 freezes, and sometimes the entire
> system crashes with strange errors).
> However a big problem I'm having is about printing. I'm using an HP
> Deskjet 870Cxi printer, I configured /etc/printcap with the magicfilter
> dj550c-filter (I haven't found the right filter for 870) but when I
> print something different from text (text prints well) I get an error:
> "can't find file dju550c". Where is this missing file?? I downloaded and
> installed the djtools package, but that didn't resolved anything...
> Any help would be very appreciated. Thanx
> Bye
> Marco
Hi Marco,
I am running potato with an HP855 printer. Here is what works for
me. It should also work for your HP870. I am using apsfilter instead of
magicfilter. I had problems with the potato version of apsfilter , so I
installed version 4.9.7-5 from slink. I am using this in conjuction with
ghostscript. For ghostscript, go to the debian ftp site and get the
deb binary from debian/project/experimental. This has been hacked to
include the HP850 driver, which will also work for the HP870. This setup
has been performing flawlessly for me. Good luck.
Gene
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