Re: No printing with magicfilter
On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:02:02AM +0100, Wolfgang Hlawatsch generated a stream of 1s and 0s:
> Operating system slink, netatalk installed
>
> I have a 486 machine which I want to use as a printserver for WIN and
> MacOS. I encountered the problem that the command "lpr (filename)" does
> not print a postscipt file on my NEC P6. There is only an ASCII printout
>
> which maybe the description of the postscript file itself
>
> I already tried by replacing the configuration file:
> /etc/magicfiler/necp6-filter.
>
> Is it possible to have an installed software that does not work together
>
> with lpd and the magicfilter? Lately I found a message about
>
> After all descriptions I just need to use "magicfilterconfig" and
> printing shoud work. but it does not
>
> I tried other configurations, given at another time through the net, and
>
> even did recently a completely new installation of Linux. Without
> success.
>
> The main problem is that I do not know how to debug to find the problem.
>
> Wolfgang
>
>
Again, try APSFilter, it worked right away for me and it comes with many
features (even test-page printing and so forth).
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