Matthew R. Briggs wrote: > > Hello, > > I just got a brand-new HP Laserjet 6P, and whereas printing wasn't much > of a priority for me before, I'd like to make this work so I can use > Applixware and ditch MS Office. Unfortunately, I am completely baffled > by the problems I am having. I am using a dual P166 with Debian 1.3.1, > 2.0.30 SMP kernel and lp1 is what the printer is attached to. My story > goes like this: > > LPR and LPRng "out of the box" will print ascii just fine, but > postscript of course is just page after page of PS coding. > > If I install apsfilter or magicfilter (tried them both) various things > go wrong. In both situations, I set it up to use the Laserjet 4 > filters. With magicfilter installed, it acts basically the same, while > apsfilter makes the whole thing refuse to print. The error message > looks like this: > > bash-2.00$ lpr /usr/doc/gs/examples/chess.ps > connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed - Connection refused > job 'cfA291brunhilda' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 attempts > > This, by the way, was after commenting out the "ascii" printer > definition, which returned a "no printcap entry for printer ascii" > error. For some reason in the above situation the computer thinks it is > printing to a remote printer, but that's definitely not what I want to > do. > > It will print just fine if I run Ghostscript and do it by hand, but that > is a royal pain. > > Does anyone have any advice for me? I've seen a package called cti-ifhp > that has filters for HP printers, but I don't know if it would do any > good. I am somewhat new to the gobbledygook of the /etc/printcap file > and I can't make sense of what's going wrong. Any help is greatly > appreciated. Thanks! > > ____________________ > Matthew R. Briggs > [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello,
I just got a brand-new HP Laserjet 6P, and whereas printing wasn't much of a priority for me before, I'd like to make this work so I can use Applixware and ditch MS Office. Unfortunately, I am completely baffled by the problems I am having. I am using a dual P166 with Debian 1.3.1, 2.0.30 SMP kernel and lp1 is what the printer is attached to. My story goes like this: LPR and LPRng "out of the box" will print ascii just fine, but postscript of course is just page after page of PS coding. If I install apsfilter or magicfilter (tried them both) various things go wrong. In both situations, I set it up to use the Laserjet 4 filters. With magicfilter installed, it acts basically the same, while apsfilter makes the whole thing refuse to print. The error message looks like this: bash-2.00$ lpr /usr/doc/gs/examples/chess.ps connection to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed - Connection refused job 'cfA291brunhilda' transfer to [EMAIL PROTECTED] failed after 1 attempts This, by the way, was after commenting out the "ascii" printer definition, which returned a "no printcap entry for printer ascii" error. For some reason in the above situation the computer thinks it is printing to a remote printer, but that's definitely not what I want to do. It will print just fine if I run Ghostscript and do it by hand, but that is a royal pain. Does anyone have any advice for me? I've seen a package called cti-ifhp that has filters for HP printers, but I don't know if it would do any good. I am somewhat new to the gobbledygook of the /etc/printcap file and I can't make sense of what's going wrong. Any help is greatly appreciated. Thanks! ____________________ Matthew R. Briggs [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
