I'll have to give it a try later... Thanks. People have suggested the 550c filter, but all it seems to do is spit out blank pages and partial print jobs when I print from a Winblows system to the Linux box using Samba. Someone else sent a modified filter more specific to an 870 and it just plain didn't work. And here I was thinking that making the 870 work would be just as easy as setting up an old DeskJet 520.
Alec On Fri, 22 Jan 1999, Jay Barbee wrote: > At 1/21/99 04:21 PM -0500, Alec Smith wrote: > >Could anyone tell me how to make my DeskJet 870 operate under Debian? For > >example, a filter for Magicfilter or whichever. > > > > My Djet 870Cxi is on a NT system that Debian still accesses via LPR. But I > did at one point have it hooked up and shared from Debian. Here is how it > looked in my printcap: > > dj|djet870|HP Deskjet 870:\ > :lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/djet870:\ > :sh:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\ > :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj500c-filter:\ > :af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs: > > I will say that I did have problem with the magicfilter program. The > actual 550c driver that it installed filter would not execute. I don't > know if that was a bug or not, I got a new copy of that filter (older > version maybe) and put it in its place, and I have never had a problem. > > I will attach the driver I use (4.73k). > > Other than that, you need to have the queue created in /var/spool/lpd: > drwxrwxr-x 2 lp lp 1024 Dec 16 09:36 djet870/ > ..you can use a 'cp -a lp djet870' in the /var/spool/lpd directory, and > that should handle it for you. > > I know all of this sounds manual, but if the magicfilter install was a bit > much, this could be an easier route for you. > > Hope it helps > --Jay
