On Sat, Jan 05, 2002 at 02:17:45AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm trying to set up an HP DeskJet 500, I have at least three other > printers that I'll need to deal with soon, but I'd feel more confident if > I could get just one to work first. > > Relevant details: > Debian2.2(potato), LPRng-3.6.12, ghostscript 5.10 Hello Larry, I am the maintainer of the Debian LPRng packages. By some coincidence up until about a month ago my primary printer was a HP DJ500. They understand ascii and some PCL.
What are you trying to print? I assume a postscript page? Are you sure ghostscript is working and is sending the right sort of file to the printer? Try printing a text file first, that will make sure all the channels etc are right. It could be that the file is going to the printer and the printer goes, huh? and dumps it. A good way to annoy someone who is not aware of this is give them a text file and a postscript-only printer. You get lots of blank pages and cursing! Then do the opposite, cat a PCL file direct to the port. Your printcap is pretty simple so its basically just sending the file as is. BTW, I hope you have the latest lprng running there Larry, the older 3.6.12's had a security bug in them. You should be running 3.6.12-8 which is the 3.6.24 security patches backported to the Debian stable dist. It will stop the syslog() overflow hack and the NLSPATH hack. -- Craig Small VK2XLZ GnuPG:1C1B D893 1418 2AF4 45EE 95CB C76C E5AC 12CA DFA5 Eye-Net Consulting http://www.eye-net.com.au/ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> MIEEE <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Debian developer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- YOU MUST BE A LIST MEMBER IN ORDER TO POST TO THE LPRNG MAILING LIST The address you post from MUST be your subscription address If you need help, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] (or lprng-requests or lprng-digest-requests) with the word 'help' in the body. For the impatient, to subscribe to a list with name LIST, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with: | example: subscribe LIST <mailaddr> | subscribe lprng-digest [EMAIL PROTECTED] unsubscribe LIST <mailaddr> | unsubscribe lprng [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you have major problems, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word LPRNGLIST in the SUBJECT line. -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
