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Re: printing



On Fri, Apr 23, 2004 at 02:21:43PM +0200, Miguel Mazzorana wrote:
> I have installed  Debian Woody  several times but I can not use my 
> printer  HP Deskjet 720 C in any way.
> I have try a lot of things!
> I have read a lot of logs!
> 
> but every time when  I type:
>                                              ls -all  |  /dev/lp0
Hi Miguel,
/dev/lp0 is not the same as lpr.
if you pipe something to /dev/lp0, I guess it would have to be pure
postscipt.
ls -all | lpr
would seem more reasonable as it would filter the text output and
convert it to postscipt.
also try:
ls -all | a2ps
-Kev

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