On Tue, Jan 27, 1998 at 09:24:56AM +0100, Rolf Obrecht wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote:
>
> > 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%
>
> Hi,
>
> I had a similar problem (using gs and magicfilter). I found that
> ghostscript crashed while converting the PS-file to PCL. The effect was
> that lpq said "all xxx bytes printed" but the printer remained silent and
> no errormessages were generated. You might try to call the gs-commandline
> for magicfilter from shell to see if gs hangs and fiddle with the drivers
> or additional gs-switches to get it working.
>
I had problems with printing too. My solution for debugging lprng with
magicfilter is:
a) temporary redirecting lpd output to file
- edit /etc/printcap and change lp entry from lp=/dev/lp1 (in my
configuration) to lp=/tmp/printer.out
- touch /tmp/printer.out
- chmod 0666 /tmp/printer.out
- lpc reread all
- and go testing
b) analizing errorlog - you must create it ( I don't have it as default )
because stderr (from filter) doesn't going to printerlog:
- edit /etc/printcap and add lf entry: lf=/var/log/lp-errs
- touch /var/log/lp-errs
- chmod 0644 /var/log/lp-errs
- chown lp.adm /var/log/lp-errs
Mirek Kwasniak
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