> I recently got a printer from someone who wasnt using it. He lost all the > manuals but claims the printer used to work correctly under win 95/98. The > printer is an HP LaserJet IIP (Plus). Now here is the problem I get: I tried > setting up apsfilter and magicfilter, using the filter ljet2p, ljet2plo and > ljet2plus, I tried lpr and lprng, and each time I get exactly the same error: > the text prints out correctly but is output 4 times!
I have an old Star laser here that emulates a LaserJet IIP and it works great with the ljet2p filter. I would expect a genuine IIP to work just as well. When you say it prints four times, do you mean four copies of the same page? If so, that might be a setting in the printer's menus. Those things usually have a control panel on the front of the printer. I have seen several lasers, including a LaserJet III that have a number of copies option that can be accessed using that control panel. If you are getting duplicate pages, you might want to make sure that is set to one. I saw a situation with the LaserJet III where if the OS specified the number of copies, it would obey. If the OS does not specify, the printer uses its setting. I had a surprise one day because someone had set the printer to 10! Apparently the program I was using only specifies number of copies if you want more than one. Since I wanted one, the program did not tell the printer and the printer spit out ten copies. > Another strange thing: if I try using it via samba from a windoze box (using > the printer 'raw', thus without filter), I get only one page, then 4 blank > pages. This is better but still annoying. No idea on the blank pages. The OKI I have now has an option in its menus to kill blank pages, but I haven't needed to use it. I used this printer for a while with the ljet2p filter because i was too lazy to change the printcap. Hope this helps, Patrick
