bingo! it prints almost fine now!!
when using the drakex > printtool, i needed to leave it at defaults! (see below)
Name of quene: lp
Spool directory: /var/spool/lpd/lp
instead, i was changing it to lp0 and /var/spool/lpd/lp which resulted in the
printtool working and printing appropriate test pages and then reverting to
same buggy behavoir with netscape and kedit (of course i sort of figured it was
reverting to my old configured driver, or so). I was changing the lp to lp0
since i didn't like having a quene name w/o a number (a syntax which i prefer
when one may have more than several quenes).
My printer now looks like it is fully working. It prints within netscape very
well (postscript). it prints "missing the first horizontal line of text"
when printing from "kedit" files (or text), to resolve this, i could either
enter a blank line for the top line or print by choosing the check box
"Print using the Command 'enscript -2rG' "
On Wed, 23 Feb 2000, you wrote:
> seems to be some corrections are need to be placed thru the "Linux Printer
> Database Site" (forgot the url)
>
> Brother HP-1240 Printer uses the "HP Laserjet IIp" driver(!!!) and NOT the "HP
> Laserjet 4/5/6" driver.
>
> as such, after my breif (very helpful tip from Brother Tech Support), this
> problem is now solved with printing only the "test pages (ascii and
> postscirpt) within the printtool - the left and top margings being "cut" short
> by 1-2 character widths. But, thru further experimentation with "kedit" and
> "netscape", they still print by cutting the margins and only printing the 1/4
> page in netscape!
>
> Maybe this problem could be atleast corrected w/i the mdk distro
> release by adding an entry for the Brother HL-1240 printer (possible?
> dunno...whatever).
>
>
>
>
>
> *Note on additional research: Also, was advised (thru same tech support guy)
> that the Brother HL-1250 printer (very similar to 1240) should use the "HP
> Laserjet 4" driver. Unknown on further specifics since i don't have a 1250!
> (don't know if this is the hp laserjet 4/5/6 or hp laserjet 4- dithered
> drivers).
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