Re: Printing problems
On Fri, Jan 11, 2002 at 04:08:44PM -0800, Jeff wrote:
> I'm having some trouble. This used to work, and all-of-a-sudden
> it isn't now. I have a woody/2.4.16 system with an HP Deskjet
> 952C on the parallel port. I use LPRNG and MAGICFILTER with the
> dj690c-filter, and this has worked fine in the past. I've done a
> few apt-get update/upgrades since last I printed, so I'm
> suspicious of something that might have changed in an upgrade.
>
> My BIOS setting for the port is ECP and my kernel settings are:
>
> CONFIG_PARPORT=y
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC=y
> CONFIG_PARPORT_PC_CML1=y
> CONFIG_PARPORT_1284=y
> CONFIG_PRINTER=y
>
> The following lines show up in /var/log/dmesg:
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 (0x778) [PCSPP,TRISTATE]
> parport0: irq 7 detected
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: cpp_daisy: aa5500ff(38)
> parport0: assign_addrs: aa5500ff(38)
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
> I can send data to the printer using:
>
> cat text.file > /dev/lp0
> and...
> lpr text.file
> and...
> enscript -1 -G text.file
>
> 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....'
>
> This is messing with me...I feel like I'm close, but I'm missing
> something small.
>
> I've purged and reinstalled LPRNG and MAGICFILTER, and even tried
> using LPR, but no luck.
>
> Any help will much appreciated.
>
> thanks,
> jc
>
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> Jeff Coppock Systems Engineer
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>
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What is the content of /etc/printcap ?
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Joachim Fahnenmüller
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