Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You also want to install everything that magicfilter 'suggests' [...] You can find the names of the programs by grepping through the filter file and checking the against the contents file. Or just run a pass through dselect. ;) Actually I did install magicfilter with dselect, but there seem to be some hidden dependencies, especially on recode, xfig and transfig. I found this out when I checked my filter-file as you suggested. For the moment I'm happy with magicfilter - Thank you very much. Andreas On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: [...] right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error messages. [...]
Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)
Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works well with it. I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this: lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem The SC 600 is well supported. Magicfilter has 3 filters for it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you create the filters by yourself? I only found two corresponding driver entries: stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi (with magicfilter version 1.2-28). Please tell me, how you made it work, I'm really curious... Best regards, Andreas 1.2-28 is the slink version. I'm running potato and using magicfilter 1.2-39. I just used /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig to set it up with no tweaking involved. There was a bug in the 720 dpi filter, but that has been fixed. Here's the (partial) 'dpkg -s output' for magicfilter 1.2-39: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~# dpkg -s magicfilter Package: magicfilter Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: text Installed-Size: 452 Maintainer: David Frey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Version: 1.2-39 Depends: libc6 (= 2.1.2) Recommends: lpr | lprng, gs, enscript Suggests: dvips, pbmplus | netpbm, pnmtopng, libjpeg-progs | libjpeg-gif, libtiff-tools, psptools, recode, djtools, bzip2 Conflicts: apsfilter Conffiles: /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] a0c2f4b4679e30888484934a9687363c /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 9df9ac128b5add4b825a1e57bc962ab3 /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 3af72053af945a5194c62b02807628be /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 059cd8e91aaf245fe59972ca2cc8dc65 /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] c170b1d25e691c10bbe5f336f7124e35 /etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED] 6b99d025645d38b074a3b0be447262b9 Tom
Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)
I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works well with it. I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this: lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem The SC 600 is well supported. Magicfilter has 3 filters for it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you create the filters by yourself? I only found two corresponding driver entries: stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi (with magicfilter version 1.2-28). Please tell me, how you made it work, I'm really curious... Best regards, Andreas
Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)
On Sun, Jul 23, 2000 at 06:38:25PM +0200, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works well with it. I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this: lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem Are you running a 2.2 or later kernel? If so, use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1.
Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)
I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works well with it. I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this: lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem Are you running a 2.2 or later kernel? If so, use /dev/lp0 instead of /dev/lp1. I have version 2.0.38 Andreas
Re: magicfilter trouble (was: apsfilter on Epson Stylus Color... Who can help?)
FWIW: Here's /etc/printcap on this machine: lp|esc660|Epson Stylus colour 660:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc660:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/[EMAIL PROTECTED]:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: You also want to install everything that magicfilter 'suggests'; all the converting programs that do the actual work aren't installed if you 'apt-get install' magicfilter. You can find the names of the programs by grepping through the filter file and checking the against the contents file. Or just run a pass through dselect. ;) On Sun, 23 Jul 2000, Andreas Hetzmannseder wrote: I have the SC 660, amd the magicfilter package works well with it. I would like to see your printcap entry. Mine looks like this: lp|esc600|Epson Stylus Color 600:\ :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/esc600:\ :sh:pw#80:pl#72:px#1440:mx#0:\ :if=/etc/magicfilter/stylus_color_720dpi-filter:\ :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: But right now the printer does *nothing at all* - not even error messages. I have checked /dev/lp1, so this can't be the problem The SC 600 is well supported. Magicfilter has 3 filters for it: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Did you create the filters by yourself? I only found two corresponding driver entries: stylus_color_360dpi and stylus_color_720dpi (with magicfilter version 1.2-28). Please tell me, how you made it work, I'm really curious... Best regards, Andreas -- Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] /dev/null
