Re: HP LaserJet Series II and Debian Linux

[Mike Werner <reznaeous@earthlink.net>]

Matt wrote:
> I am trying desparately to get my HP Laser II to work in linux.  I have
> to have somthing to print out all these bloody HOWTOs ;o)
> 
> I used both apsfilter and Redhat Printtool to get it to print, but it
> seems to only want to print about 1/2 the page at a time.  So when I
> print one page, I get two pages:  the first one has the top half of the
> document, the second has the bottom half of the document...  It's really
> veryfrustrating, and I'd like to figure out how to get it to work.  IF
> anyone has experience with this printer and linux printing at all, I'd
> really like to hear it.

I've got an HP LJIII here.  As I remember the II and the III are very
similar, so hopefully this'll help.  I'm using magicfilter and have
the LJIII working perfectly.  I used magicfilterconfig to set up my
printcap.  So my first suggestion would be dump the printtool - them
RedHat GUI config tools have never worked worth a damn.  Then I'd say
remove apsfilter and install magicfilter - I seem to remember trying
apsfilter first, and never could get it to work.

I can't guarantee that magicfilter will work with an LJII, but it works
very nicely here with an LJIII.  Should be at least worth trying.
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