Re: printing - from beginning
Sandip P Deshmukh said:
> could be. but if i do echo "SOMETHING" > /dev/lp0, what is happening? as
> printer doesnt even blink!
your gonna have to try to dig up more info on your printer. since its
a "special" printer(being a winprinter), the setup for it will probably
be different enough that you'll need more info about it. not to mention
the special filter required. nothing is happening when you do the
above probably because the printer doesn't understand the input so it
just ignores it rather then freaks out.
ideally I would just get a new printer, something that supports
postscript, but that one should work, just have to find the software
for it.
doing a quick apt-cache look it seems as if you will need
the pnm2ppa package:
Package: pnm2ppa
Priority: optional
Section: text
Installed-Size: 747
Maintainer: Chad Walstrom <chewie@debian.org>
Architecture: i386
Version: 1.04-4
Replaces: pbm2ppa
Provides: pbm2ppa
Depends: libc6 (>= 2.2.3-7), gs
Suggests: magicfilter | apsfilter
Conflicts: pbm2ppa
Filename: pool/main/p/pnm2ppa/pnm2ppa_1.04-4_i386.deb
Size: 198424
MD5sum: 9baf8dd61b109e24aa5011ecc7faf8cb
Description: PPM to PPA converter
Using pnm2ppa it's possible to run HP-GDI printers on Linux. These printers
are normally "Windows-only" and use the PPA protocol which is proprietary.
pnm2ppa supports color and is supposed to work faster than pbm2ppa.
.
pnm2ppa supports the following printers: HP Deskjet 7XX Series, HP Deskjet
820 Series and HP Deskjet 1000 Series.
setting it up though is another matter, good luck!
nate
Reply to: