Hi I'm having loads of trouble printing under SuSE Linux 6.0. My printer is a HP DeskJet 560C, and is printing fine under Windows 98. I've configured 'apsfilter' for the printer with YaST using the driver 'cdj550' (according to page 244 of SuSE Linux guide). Actually, I've carefully followed every instruction from chapter 11 (Printer) of the Linux guide, and I've gone through the checklist on page 245 twice, but to no avail: the printer won't work. My printer related environment varibles are as follow: PRINTER=lp GS_LIB=/usr/share/ghostscript/5.10:/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts:/usr/X11R6/lib/X 11/fonts/ttf:/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1 Apsfilter created four printer queues: lp, lp-mono, ascii, raw. The first three of these don't work. The following commands don't do a thing: jcm@home:~ > lpr test1.ps jcm@home:~ > lpr -Plp test2.ps jcm@home:~ > lpr -Plp-mono test3.ps jcm@home:~ > lpr -Pascii test4.txt except generating two lines at the end of /var/spool/lpd/cdj550-a4-auto-color-300/log: %%[ Error: invalidfont; OffendingCommand: findfont ]%% GNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1 ** However, the printer DOES work fine if I do this: jcm@home:~ > gs -q -dNOPAUSE -dSAFER -dSHORTERRORS -sDEVICE=cdj550 -r300 -dBATCH -sPAPERSIZE=a4 -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1 anyfile.ps So I did't think it had anything to do with missing fonts. [[Since I'm the only user on my machine, I've set the file /dev/lp1 to crw-rw-rw (root), instead of crw-rw---- (root), so I can send the files directly to the printer, even as a normal user.]] Therefore, I assumed there was something wrong with apsfilter, so I went to YaST, removed the aps package, and re-installed it. This time I even went to the aps directory /var/lib/apsfilter and ran the SETUP program. But everything stayed the same. There a interesting exception though. The program The GIMP (The GNU Image Manipulation Program) has its own printer drivers, which turned out to be an excelent thing. My printer prints any image file from inside the GIMP! In order to print documents from StarOffice 5.0 though, I have to print them to a PostScript file first and then use the GhostScript command above. The same happens to every other program I use. How do I fix this? Anyone? :) Regards, Z� -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
