lprng and magicfilter problem

[Paul Schulz <pschulz@foursticks.com.au>]

Greetings,

It seems that these two packages work really well together! but I have a
networking problem though.. and I would like to understand what is
going on.

I have set lprng and magicfilter up on a server to print to a "HP
Laserjet 6p", a non-postscript printer.  Works well when I print from
this host. (I've set the magicfilter to 'ljet2p'.)

I set up my laptop to talk to print to lp@server, and it does, but
magicfilter doesn't process this postscript that it sends, and passes
it directly to the printer (which spits it out as stepped text, not
recognising the !%.)

Why is this happening?  Why isn't the postscript being processed by
magicfilter on the server?  Standard stable (potato) Debian
installation on both..

lprng_3.6.12-8
magicfilter_1.2.39

and the server queues set up with 'magicfilterconfig'.

I don't want to have to install (not that it's overly difficult)
magicfilter on all the workstations.

Any help appriciated.
Paul Schulz