Hi all! I've got a freshly installed debian system running (named "zen"*)
on my new LAN, and have my deskjet 882c printer connected to it.
I can print fine from zen itself. I've also got my (currently borked**)
RedHat system set up to use zen's printer remote. It works fine, too.
I have another debian box with a pretty much identical printcap entry as
the RedHat one, and I can print text to it just fine. However, I can't
print postscript.
Actually, more specifically, when I print postscript, I get a few lines
of postscript junk at the top of a mostly blank page. The first program
I tested printing from was Gimp. I then tried just 'cat'ing a random
".ps" file from the system to "lpr" to see if that worked, and
lo, and behold!, it did!
I looked more closely at how Gimp was trying to print, and noticed it had
a "-l" switch (***) as an argument to "lpr". Removing this caused it to
print just fine!
I was happy, but found it curious that I had to do this, since Gimp on my
RedHat box printed just fine with the "-l" switch.
I decided to try something else. This time, Star Office 5.2. When I went
to print from it, I got the PS gibberish again. :(
So, it wasn't _really_ the "-l" switch. It must still be some
misconfiguration on this Debian box (the one I'm trying to print to, not
the remote one the printer is connected to; again, I seem to be able to
print just fine from the RedHat box).
Any suggestions?
-bill!
* - I was thinking of naming it 'slave', since it's going to have a bunch
of shared periphs, but decided to name it the name of the OTHER ship's
computer from the TV show "Blake's 7" :)
** - Blame Ximian's Red-Carpet, I think. >:^( I'm gonna head to Fry's and
grab a copy of RH7.1 I think.
*** - From "lpr"'s man-page:
-l Use a filter which allows control characters to be printed and
suppresses page breaks.
Huh... I don't understand why removing that would HELP! /:^[
