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Re: Printing problems



Thus spake Jeff:
> Adam Majer, 2002-Jan-11 19:24 -0600:
> > On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:08:44PM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> > 
> > > and the printer prints, but not the text.  The output has words
> > > that look like the filter or enscript calls, e.g.
> > > '%%BoundingBox...' and '/.notdef' and '%!PS-Adobe-3.0....'
> > 
> > These are post script things. Your printer doesn't understand these.
> > It should be using gs from the filter..
> > 
> > Check if you gave a correct pointer in your printcap file.. That's 
> > used by lpr. From the output it looks like the filter is never called.
> 
> Okay, I checked in /etc/lprng and found a link to /etc/printcap.
> The link is good, and the default path to printcat for lprng is
> to this link.
> 
> With my fiddling, I think I made it worse.  Now when I try to
> print, the job show in error in the queue (lpq) and the printer
> prints "Unknown device: pc13" and thats it.
Try rerunning magicfilterconfig - it'll generate a clean
/etc/printcap for you.
Steve

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