On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 06:06:47PM +0000, you wrote: > Hi to all > I'm using Debian Potato and, I must say, it's wonderful, even if it's > unstable (sometimes WindowMaker 0.6 freezes, and sometimes the entire > system crashes with strange errors). > However a big problem I'm having is about printing. I'm using an HP > Deskjet 870Cxi printer, I configured /etc/printcap with the magicfilter > dj550c-filter (I haven't found the right filter for 870) but when I > print something different from text (text prints well) I get an error: > "can't find file dju550c". Where is this missing file?? I downloaded and > installed the djtools package, but that didn't resolved anything... > Any help would be very appreciated. Thanx > Bye > Marco
Hi Marco, I am running potato with an HP855 printer. Here is what works for me. It should also work for your HP870. I am using apsfilter instead of magicfilter. I had problems with the potato version of apsfilter , so I installed version 4.9.7-5 from slink. I am using this in conjuction with ghostscript. For ghostscript, go to the debian ftp site and get the deb binary from debian/project/experimental. This has been hacked to include the HP850 driver, which will also work for the HP870. This setup has been performing flawlessly for me. Good luck. Gene
