On Monday 11 December 2000 15:55, MH wrote: > > Vi scribis: > > I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, > > unsuccessfully, to configure. > > > > I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be > > quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, > > qtcups and xpp, the last two packages being frontends. > > [...] > I don't know much about CUPS... > > > Alternatively, is there another way to setup this postscript printer ? I > > have the printer's PPD file so I was assuming that this would have been > > really easy. > > Yes the alternative is easy (with no need of a custom ppd file). > Having installed a printer spooler (like lprng), (apt-)get yourself a > printer filter (although it's a postscript printer, the filter facilitates > adjustments like resolution [600x300 in your case I think], and let you > deal automatically with a lot file formats) like apsfilter or > magicfilter. Start the configtool (e.g. magicfilterconfig), and here you > are.
Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's probably a printer-queue problem. My own experience: I spent two day figuring out that the proper command isn't "lpr" or "lpr -P lp0" but "lpr -P lp foo.txt." Try dumping a text-file to the printer. OTOH, this might not apply to you I have a Lexmark 7000 inkjet (non-Postscript).
