Guys - I need some help here. I have my printing system so goofed up I don't know what end is up anymore, but I've never been able to get anything other than "echo file > /dev/lp0" to work.
I have: Debian 2.2r5 (potato) Kernel v2.2.19 KDE 2.1.2 HP Office Jet T45 GNU GhostScript 6.52 (precompiled to include the hpijs and ijs driver hooks) HP's IJS drivers v1.0.2 I've tried LPD/LPRng with magicfilter, but couldn't get magic filter to recognize my new HP driver (although when magicfilter did a gs-h it did show the driver hook was there). Same problem with apsfilter. I've been to the Linux Printing.org site and followed the instructions for lpdomatic and foomatic-gswrappers, all with no luck. Man, I thought X was frustrating. And I'm not exactly an newbie here. I got X, KDE, CDR/CDRW, SAMBA, VMWare, IPMASQ and a host of other stuff up, not to mention recompling my kernel a few times along the way. I even managed to get GhostScript compiled without much effort. Linux printing is a complete and utter mess. What can I do? Should I try CUPS instead? Will it even work with my system or do I have to get woody? Why is this so freaking hard? What can I do to debug things? When I send 'lpr -Pojet <file>", I get no errors, and nothing on the printer. Nothing in the syslogs or /var/spool/lpd/ojet indicates where my output went. How can I figure out what's wrong? If CUPS will help, is anyone using it with Potato and my printer? I've been on this for 5 days now. I have to have my printer or Linux is history and Windows comes back.
