Re: lp-device trouble

1997-04-24 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
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

Re: lp-device trouble again

1997-04-24 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: If it's a line-termination character problem, how can solve it? Well, with HP printers, there's a control character that you can send the character to set the convention. I don't know what you'd do for other printers, or even if it's actually relevant, but I'd say you

lp-device trouble

1997-04-23 Thread barknech
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

Re: lp-device trouble

1997-04-23 Thread Steve Hsieh
If this is a postscript only printer, are you sending it a postscript file or just characters to /dev/lp0? The fact that it says processing suggests that it is receiving your data, but it can't understand what you're sending it. Try cat'ing a real (short) postscript file to the printer and see

Re: lp-device trouble

1997-04-23 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: 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. This is

lp-device trouble again

1997-04-23 Thread barknech
Thank you all for trying to answer my question. I think I have forgotten to say, that I am indeed cat-ing a postsript-file (not raw text or anything else, but I admit that I tried...) to the printer, but it does not work. Under DOS the command copy junk.ps lpt1 prints every postscript-file