You have received some good answers and hopefully one of them will help. I'd like to add one thing. I recently had a similiar problem. I followed the docs diligently and installed everything perfectly but I still could not print. Then out of frustration I deinstalled apsfilter and tried magicfilter and suddenly everything worked. Apparently there is some kind of bug in apsfilter or Debians version of it. I would have filed a bug report except I don't have the slightest clue what went wrong.
-- Jaldhar On Wed, 23 Apr 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print. > If I try to print anything (via "cat" as root, or with "lpr"), > the device seems to receive data, because its display says > so ("PROCESSING...WAITING..." and then "READY"). > But it still does not print. > My Debian is 1.2 of the InfoMagic Dev.Resource-CD. > I'm using apsfilter_4.9.1-10 (well, in fact I'm _not_using_ it so far). > My printer is a NEC Silentwriter S60P-Printer. This is a > Postscript-Printer, but an old one. It works fine under DOS (Win95), > and it had been sucessful the RedHat-Linux-Computer of a friend. > I do not use plip, I read the Printing-Howto and fiddled around with tunelp, > it keeps saying things like: > > # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 > # /dev/lp1 using polling > # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s > # /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line > # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -i 7 > # /dev/lp1 using IRQ 7 > # bash# tunelp /dev/lp1 -s > # /dev/lp1 status is 223, on-line > > with no positive effect on printing. > > I tried, if a kernel-version-upgrade would help, but nope: > No printing with 2.0.27 nor 2.0.29. > lp-support is a module in the kernel, kerneld starts it at boot time. > # bash# dmesg | grep lp > # lp1 at 0x0378, (polling) > > > Can someone help me? Are there any tools to debug my > problem further than with tunelp? > Like a kind of 'ping' for lp-devices? > > Thank you in advance > Frank Barknecht > ############################### > mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > ############################### > > > > > -- > TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to > [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . > -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .