Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)

[Tom Pfeifer <tplists@optonline.net>]

Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote:
> 
> > I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works
> > well with it.
> 
> I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this:
> 
>         lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
>                 :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\
>                 :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\
>                 :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\
>                 :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
> 
> But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error
> messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem
> 
> > The SC 600 is well supported. Magicfilter has 3 filters
> > for it:
> >
> > StylusColor-600@360dpi-filter
> > StylusColor-600@720dpi-filter
> > StylusColor-600@1440dpi-filter
> 
> Did you create the filters by yourself? I only found two corresponding
> driver entries: stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi (with
> magicfilter version 1.2-28).
> 
> Please tell me, how you made it work, I'm really curious...
> 
> Best regards,
> Andreas
> 

1.2-28 is the slink version. I'm running potato and using magicfilter
1.2-39.  I just used /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig to set it up with no
tweaking involved. There was a bug in the 720 dpi filter, but that has
been fixed.

Here's the (partial) 'dpkg -s output' for magicfilter 1.2-39:

root@newdebian:~# dpkg -s magicfilter
Package: magicfilter
Status: install ok installed
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 452
Maintainer: David Frey <dfrey@debian.org>
Version: 1.2-39
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.1.2)
Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs, enscript
Suggests: dvips, pbmplus | netpbm, pnmtopng, libjpeg-progs |
libjpeg-gif, libtiff-tools, psptools, recode, djtools, bzip2
Conflicts: apsfilter
Conffiles:
 /etc/magicfilter/StylusColor-1520@1440dpi-filter
a0c2f4b4679e30888484934a9687363c
 /etc/magicfilter/StylusColor-500@360dpi-filter
9df9ac128b5add4b825a1e57bc962ab3
 /etc/magicfilter/StylusColor-500@720dpi-filter
3af72053af945a5194c62b02807628be
 /etc/magicfilter/StylusColor-600@1440dpi-filter
059cd8e91aaf245fe59972ca2cc8dc65
 /etc/magicfilter/StylusColor-600@360dpi-filter
c170b1d25e691c10bbe5f336f7124e35
 /etc/magicfilter/StylusColor-600@720dpi-filter
6b99d025645d38b074a3b0be447262b9
....

Tom