Hi again,
Some more printer troubles.
Been spending quite some time trying to get my printer
to work. Now I can print very nice post script files
using gs-aladdin *smile*
I dont know how to put it together with lpr though.
Anyone got any ideas ?
I have an EPSON Stylus Color 740 and currently tried
to set up apsfilter with "epson" as driver selection.
Doing this I get a printcap file but I can only get
"raw" to work on an ordinary text file. ?!!! Why ??
raw|lp5|epson-a4-raw|epson auto raw:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-raw/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-epson-a4-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
All other entires in printcap file, for example
lp|lp4|epson-a4-auto-color|epson auto color:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-auto-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-auto-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/epson-a4-auto-color/acct:\
:if=/var/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps-epson-a4-auto-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
just prints some error messages. Starting with
Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops
(1488)op_array(564)0 ..... etc etc
I suspect this is because "epson" is the wrong filter when
running the apsfilterconfig ?
Does anyone got a filter for the 740 color printer ? Or
where can I get one ?
more:
Since "raw" works and I can print .ps with gs command
I can live with it for a while but I could never imagine
it would be this hard to get a working printer.
Another example that someone might be able to help me with
is how I can get some indentation with the lpr -Praw fil.txt
command ? I have tried:
lpr -Praw -i 16
lpr -Praw -i16
lpr -Praw -p
putting :pr=pr -o 5 -t -j -f -e in the printcap file.
pr -o 5 -t -j -f -e fil.txt | lpr
but no indentation whatsoever *sigh*
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I am using lprng and apsfilter
Been trying this for quite a while as I said and did find
some .upp filters on the net. Never got them to work very
well though.
hmm what else...
I tried magicfilter but I must have screwed something up since
no filters (that I can see anyway) are installed (/etc/magicfilter/*).
So if anyone feels like helping please :) do.
Anyone know of a resource like "How to set up a nice simple
perfectly working printer environment for a single user home
debian linux machine" please let me know.
Please ignore the whining tone at some places.
Best regards
Joakim Svensson
