On Wed, Aug 25, 1999 at 06:06:47PM +, 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
