Re: Problems printing postscipt with magicfilter
On Tue, 05 Mar 2002 21:49:40 +0100, Wolfgang Hlawatsch wrote:
>I am fairly new to Linux, and I am just about to install my printserver
>with Debian (Potato).
>
>The printer refuses to print a postscript file by use of lpr. I used
>"magicfilterconfig --force" several times, but I receive no printout. I
>looked at the printcap-file, and compared with different information I
>found in the net, but as I can judge it seems o.k.
>
>I can print a file using:
>gs -q -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -dBATCH -sDEVICE=necp6 -sOutputFile=\|lpr
>(filename)
>it works perfectly.
>
>That tells me that lpd is running, isn't it? But using:
>
>lpr (filename) I receive no output from the printer.
>
>I can watch for a short time, using lpq that the printjob is in the
>print-queue. Not any reaction of the printer is the result. When I
>remove the command: sh in the printcap I receive a trailing page. So,
>my conclusion is, the problem is in the magicfilter-file. But what can
>be the problem?
>
>I tried different parameters the first two lines in "necp6-filter", and
>it did not solve the problem.
>
>I was reading among others that the printcap-file must be activated as
>an executable. How can I test, or perform, this? Or is it a permission
>problem? How to test this?
I'm not going to be of direct help here. I can only suggest that you do
as I did. Install apsfilter. The configurator is *very* easy to run,
and it creates a good printcap file. It also deals with gs for you. I
can say that printing to my old dot matrix or to my Canon bubble jet is
totally painless. I have not run into a printable file that it can't
handle. For example, send a LaTeX .dvi file straight to the printer w/o
converting to ps first. I think the apsfilter/gs/lpr suite is a nice
combo that will solve your non-printing situation.
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