Re: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?
My stepmother just got the SC 660. Unfortunately has only a 14.4k modem
connection. I'd guessed to use the 600@720dpi filer.
Color looks good with it?
BTW, have you heard anything about these printers burning out when
connected to an UPS?
On Fri, 21 Jul 2000, Tom Pfeifer wrote:
> I would also suggest giving magicfilter a try if you don't resolve your
> apsfilter problem. I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works
> well with it. The SC 600 is well supported. Magicfilter has 3 filters
> for it:
>
> StylusColor-600@360dpi-filter
> StylusColor-600@720dpi-filter
> StylusColor-600@1440dpi-filter
>
> Tom
>
> Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> >
> > I've grown a long grey beard (no, not really :) ...) about the
> > following problem: Attempting to print a simple text file with
> > "lpr filename" on my Epson Stylus Color 600 produces a single line:
> >
> > Unknown device: escp2
> >
> > Then it prints the same sentence on new sheets of paper over and over
> > again, so that I have to remove the paper to stop the printer.
> >
> > The standard printcap entry by apsfilter looks like this:
> >
> > lp|lp2|escp2-a4-auto-mono|escp2 auto mono:\
> > :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-a4-auto-mono:\
> > :lf=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-a4-auto-mono/log:\
> > :af=/var/spool/lpd/escp2-a4-auto-mono/acct:\
> > :if=/usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-escp2-a4-auto-mono:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :sh:
> >
> > The corresponding logfile tells me something like this:
> >
> > [Total: 1 page on 1 sheet]
> > /usr/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-escp2-a4-auto-mono: line 111:
> > 246 Broken pipe
> > $DECOMPRESS a2ps ${A2PS_OPTS}
> > 247 Done(1) | eval $PRINT_PS
> >
> > I made several troubleshooting checks:
> >
> > 1. I created a simple printcap entry, which worked just fine. It looked
> > like this:
> >
> > lp:\
> > :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> > :mx#0:\
> > :sh:
> >
> > 2. a2ps and rewindstdin seem to be correctly installed, although not in
> > /usr/lib/apsfilter (the base directory) as proposed, but in
> > /usr/lib/apsfilter/bin. To be sure, i copied the two files into the
> > base directory, but the problem remained.
> >
> > 3. Ghostscript (gs) is installed (as well as netpbm and two
> > jpeg-libraries: libjpeg62 and libjpegg6a). gs resides in the /usr/bin
> > directory, which is in the search path of GLOBAL.sh as required.
> >
> > 4. I even forced some debugging output, but I haven't learnt shell
> > scripting yet, so I don't know what to make of it ... If someone is
> > interested in this, I will post it.
> >
> > Have I forgotten something? Did I choose the wrong printer driver
> > (escp2)? Do I need to install additional packages (like X, which I don't
> > have at present)? Who has experience in using apsfilter on an Epson?
> > Please, answer...
>
>
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