Re: Printer Question
On Sat, 26 May 2001 08:59:23 -0700 Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just installed the rpm version onto my Debian box. Caused no > problems at > > all. > > You did that with alien? I take it there are no deb packages then, > right? No deb packages. I just installed the rpm with rpm -Uvh xx.rpm. I seem to remember I couldn't get it to work with alien. Direct installs with rpm are not a problem when the package is fairly trivial. If you look inside the pacakge using Midnight Commander, or GMC if you use Gnome, you can soon see if installing the package is going to cause any problems. Often you need --nodeps as a parameter to rpm because you will not have any rpm dependencies installed on your system, of course. Do you actually need to use lprng? I know when I tried it I couldn't get printing working reliably. I decided to stick with plain old lpr in the end. Here is my /etc/printcap file: laser|lp|Printer1 auto:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/laser:\ :lf=/var/spool/lpd/laser/log:\ :af=/var/spool/lpd/laser/acct:\ :mx#0:\ :sh: colour|pips|epson|lp1:\ :lp=/dev/usblp0:\ :sh:\ :if=/usr/local/EPKowa/sc680_777/filter-sc680_777:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/sc680_777:\ :mx#0:\ :lf=/var/log/lpd/sc680_777: Note I connect my Stylus 680 via USB; The first entry is for my laser printer which I connect to the parallel port. A nice arrangement because I can easily print to either printer without using a switch or installing another parallel port. The other day I printed a photo onto Epson glossy paper and the result was absolutely superb. Never have I seen such good quality from a colour printer on any platform! The Epson driver comes with a GUI utility which allows you to choose the print quality, paper type etc.. The other think to check, of course, is permissions on your spool directory - you must be able to write to it as a regular user. Also you may need to add yourself to the lpr group. Good luck on getting it all working. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux
Re: Printer Question
On 05/26/01 08:45:49 +0100, Phillip Deackes wrote: [my ramblings about my Epson Stylus Color 880 printer snipped...] > Did you know that Epson have written a Linux driver for this printer? It > is available from: > > http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html > No, I wasn't aware of that. Great! > The quality is superb and the resultant print quality is easily equal to > that of the Windows driver. The driver is based on ghostscript so fits in > with lprng or lpr or whatever and just needs a line in /etc/printcap. That's excellent. I'm going to visit Epson's site right now. > > I just installed the rpm version onto my Debian box. Caused no problems at > all. You did that with alien? I take it there are no deb packages then, right? Thanks again for your help. It's my goal to have my printer working before the day is done. It's drag to have to reboot to print :-( -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Printer Question
On 05/26/01 00:29:21 -0700, Mike Egglestone wrote: > Do you have terminal access? > Meaning... do you have X? > therefore you can install printtool.its a .deb package > (downloadable from debian site) > If you haven't tried printtool... give it a go... > Thanks for the response. Yes I have X up and running. I've never heard of printtool. I've take a look at it. Thanks again! -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
Re: Printer Question
On Fri, 25 May 2001 21:51:09 -0700 Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Trying to get my printer working but having some problems with it. I > used to have an HP Laserjet 6L which I had working on an earlier > Debian Potato installation. Now I have a new installation and a new > printer. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 880. Still running > Potato. > > Anyway, I have lprng, gs-aladdin, and magicfilter installed as I did > on my previous installation. The device that the printer is showing up > as has seemed to have moved on me. It's now on /dev/lp0 (was lp1). > After configuring my printcap with magicfilgerconfig, I get this when > I print a file: Did you know that Epson have written a Linux driver for this printer? It is available from: http://www.epkowa.co.jp/english/linux_e/pips_e.html The quality is superb and the resultant print quality is easily equal to that of the Windows driver. The driver is based on ghostscript so fits in with lprng or lpr or whatever and just needs a line in /etc/printcap. I just installed the rpm version onto my Debian box. Caused no problems at all. -- Phillip Deackes Using Progeny Debian Linux
Re: Printer Question
Do you have terminal access? Meaning... do you have X? therefore you can install printtool.its a .deb package (downloadable from debian site) If you haven't tried printtool... give it a go... Mike - Original Message - From: "Mark Wagnon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Friday, May 25, 2001 9:51 PM Subject: Printer Question > Hi all, > > Trying to get my printer working but having some problems with it. I > used to have an HP Laserjet 6L which I had working on an earlier > Debian Potato installation. Now I have a new installation and a new > printer. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 880. Still running > Potato. > > Anyway, I have lprng, gs-aladdin, and magicfilter installed as I did > on my previous installation. The device that the printer is showing up > as has seemed to have moved on me. It's now on /dev/lp0 (was lp1). > After configuring my printcap with magicfilgerconfig, I get this when > I print a file: > > Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'esc880' > Queue: no printable jobs in queue > Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 21:41:46.427 > Filter_status: lp is ready and printing > > Anyone know what this message means besides the obvious? I am also > unable to send a filer directly to the printer with cat. I would do a > backflip if I could just get garbage to issue from my printer, but it > doesn't seem to want to cooperate. > > Any ideas? I've seen several posts on printer issues over the last > week or two. However, they, nor what I could glean from the archives > seemed to improve my predicament. > > Thanks in advance for any advice. > -- > Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > _ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] > >
Printer Question
Hi all, Trying to get my printer working but having some problems with it. I used to have an HP Laserjet 6L which I had working on an earlier Debian Potato installation. Now I have a new installation and a new printer. My printer is an Epson Stylus Color 880. Still running Potato. Anyway, I have lprng, gs-aladdin, and magicfilter installed as I did on my previous installation. The device that the printer is showing up as has seemed to have moved on me. It's now on /dev/lp0 (was lp1). After configuring my printcap with magicfilgerconfig, I get this when I print a file: Printer: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'esc880' Queue: no printable jobs in queue Status: job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' removed at 21:41:46.427 Filter_status: lp is ready and printing Anyone know what this message means besides the obvious? I am also unable to send a filer directly to the printer with cat. I would do a backflip if I could just get garbage to issue from my printer, but it doesn't seem to want to cooperate. Any ideas? I've seen several posts on printer issues over the last week or two. However, they, nor what I could glean from the archives seemed to improve my predicament. Thanks in advance for any advice. -- Mark Wagnon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com
printer question
Hello All, Debian Ghost here. Just set up my printer with magicfilterconf and I seem to still be having a problem. This is a printer on the LAN and I hope I did this properly. This is my /etc/printcap file: lp|ljet|Lazer Jet:\ :lp=:sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet:rm=156.200.5.30:rp=ljet:lpr_bounce:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet4l-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: Did I put the IP address in the proper part to access the LAN printer? This is a laser jet 4 BTW. The error I get upon print is this: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ cat funny |lpr lpr: connect: Connection refused jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. Any help is *mucho* appriciated! D. Ghost 'space ghost on the moon'
Re: Printer question : Does the HP DeskJet 610c run under Linux ? {Was : [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)}
* Max Lawson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I've previously posted on question relative to the Canon LBP 660 printer.
> Actually, it appears that such a printer is a real LOSS as it can not be
> used under Linux.
> I've installed Debian (Slink) on my friend box and would really like her
> benefit from the available desktop. I'm now looking for a cheap printer
> that will be ABLE to run under Linux. The DJ 610c is a new printer made by
> HP.
> I don't think it's a M$-Win-Printer ? But I'm not a hacker !
Try your luck here ("Un*x printer compatibility database listing"):
http://www.picante.com/%7Egtaylor/pht/printer_list.cgi
HTH,
Colin
--
Colin Marquardt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Printer question : Does the HP DeskJet 610c run under Linux ? {Was : [HELP NEEDED] The Canon LBP 660 printer under Debian (Slink)}
Hi !
I've previously posted on question relative to the Canon LBP 660 printer.
Actually, it appears that such a printer is a real LOSS as it can not be
used under Linux.
I've installed Debian (Slink) on my friend box and would really like her
benefit from the available desktop. I'm now looking for a cheap printer
that will be ABLE to run under Linux. The DJ 610c is a new printer made by
HP.
I don't think it's a M$-Win-Printer ? But I'm not a hacker !
I simply know that HP put the printer PCL commands on a WEB page
(http://interactive.hp.com/cgi-bin/cspt/cds/dlvr.pl?lid=use&fid=bpd02925&pid=hpdeskjet610481).
And this makes me think that it's an open hardware.
Note that the commands given are shared used the HP dj{600, 700, 820c, 880c,
895c, 1000} printers.
Does somebody made it run under Linux or, know it may run under Linux ?
If so, how ?
Thanx in advance for your answers, Max.
PS. Please "CC" me the answer as I'm not on the list.
misc. printer question
Paul McDermott writes: > I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does > magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother > filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to > make a filter. I just set up my HP Deskjet 870Cse. Magicfilter did not have a specific filter file for that, but 'dj550c-filter' seems to work well enough. It took me a while to discover that I also need the 'djtools' package to get the djscript program used by 'df550c-filter'. The 'netpbm' and 'libjpeg-*' packages bring in some other filter programs used by that magicfilter configuration. It would be nice if magicfilter did a better job of reporting the cases where the necessary filter programs aren't installed. Perhaps I'm overlooking some useful log file, but all I would see was an 'lpr' command that would run quietly, but no job would be queued and nothing would print. The '--debug' option to magicfilter was useful though. -- Fred Yankowski
Re: misc. printer question
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I > have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does > magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) > Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to make a filter. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Paul > No, It doesn't. You'll need to get the ghostview from slink. This has hpdj support which is needed for the newer deskjets. I had magicfilter configure a printer for the dj500, then modified the scripts magicfilter created use the hpdj driver. Mark
Re: misc. printer question
On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Paul McDermott wrote: > Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I > have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does > magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) > Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to make a filter. > Any help would be greatly appreciated. > Paul There is no filter specific to this printer, however you might be able to use one of the existing deskjet filters, such as the dj550c. Also, the gs-aladdin package includes the hpdj driver, which may also work. It should be pretty easy to edit an existing filter to use this driver and also change to the appropriate resolution, if necessary. Bob Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
misc. printer question
Hello everyone, thanks to everyone who helped with my ppp questions. I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to make a filter. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Paul
Re: Printer question
On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > I have an old bubble jet BJ-10SX cannon printer. > I have just set up lprng and magicfilter. I can print but only text . > I am not very sure as to how to incorporate the filter in /etc/printcap > I have triad the if statement and it didn't work. > ( :if=\usr\sbin\magicfilter:\ ) I would be grateful if > someone could send me their printcap file to see how it is done. Also I > would like o know the > appropriate name e.t.c. for my printer. Any help will be much appreciated Have you tried running the program "/usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig"? It is supposed to configure the printer for you automatically. Is your printer compatible with BJ-10e? Magicfilter comes with a configuration file for it. BTW, I think your setting in printcap failed for two reasons. First, you used "\" for the pathnames. This is UNIX, not DOS, so you should use "/" instead. :) Second, you do not call "/usr/bin/magicfilter" directly from /etc/printcap. Instead, when you use magicfilterconfig, it will create the /usr/sbin/bj10e-filter, which runs magicfilter and parses the configuration in bj10e-filter. For example, I have the following in my /etc/printcap: :if=/usr/sbin/epsonstc500-filter: Good luck! Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling[EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineeringhttp://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, CanadaKeep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
Printer question
Hi, I have an old bubble jet BJ-10SX cannon printer. I have just set up lprng and magicfilter. I can print but only text . I am not very sure as to how to incorporate the filter in /etc/printcap I have triad the if statement and it didn't work. ( :if=\usr\sbin\magicfilter:\ ) I would be grateful if someone could send me their printcap file to see how it is done. Also I would like o know the appropriate name e.t.c. for my printer. Any help will be much appreciated Thanks George --- George Kapetanios Churchill College Cambridge, CB3 0DSE-Mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] U.K. WWW: http://garfield.chu.cam.ac.uk/~gk205/work_info.html --- -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
