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Re: PCL only printer



On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:20:28PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote:
> the bat so I'm going one step at a time: get it to work with 'gs'
> first).  According to 'man gs', I should be able to run something like
> 'gs -sDEVICE=hpijs file.ps' to have file.ps print directly to the
> printer for which "hpijs" is a driver.  Having experimented with many
> drivers, one of which should definitely work with my printer, I
> continue to get:
> 
> 	GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13)
> 	Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, Benicia, CA. All rights reserved.
> 	This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the file COPYING for details.
> 	Error: /invalidfileaccess in --.outputpage--
> 	<blah blah blah>

Do you have the hpijs package installed?

<snip>
> of that "another job has [/dev/lpi] open".  First off, what is
> /dev/lpi?  This didn't exist for me so I made it a link to /dev/lp0 to
> try to cover my bases.  Still no success.

I think the "i" must refer to a subscript as in lp[i], i={0,1,2..}

BTW I usually struggle through the printing stuff too (no guru here).
HTH

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Chris Harris <charris@rtcmarketing.com>
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