On Mon, Jan 26, 1998 at 12:15:08PM -0800, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote: > Hi all: > > I have recently acquired two obsolete laser printers which were destined > for the garbage dump. I would like to use one or both of them with my > Debian system, but I'm having some problems. > > The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and > parallel interfaces. It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. > In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script. I am using > Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript > document to the printer it justs hangs. A log file says "25% done...50% > done..." etc. "lpq" says the document is in the queue, then a little > later it says the queue is empty. But the printer remains silent. Does > anyone have any suggestions for me? How about a printcap entry that has > actually worked?
You might try lowering the resolution. A while back I had a LaserJet (no numbers or plus) working with ghostscript. I no longer have the configs, but IIRC all I changed was the resolution. The LaserJet has no memory, so the only resolution was the lowest. :-( I hope yours will work better. HTH -- Mike Schmitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bend-or.com/~mschmitz Don't blame me - I voted libertarian! http://www.lp.org/ Use Debian Linux - the free Gnu/Linux http://www.debian.org/ ----------- "If encryption is outlawed, only outlaws will have encryption" -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
