Hello everyone --
I'm writing to the list on the advice of [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joey Hess)
(editor of the Debian Weekly Newsletter) because he says he can't think
off-hand of anyone in particular I should EMail for advice about my sur-
prise Xmas present. Also of course because I'm a Linux newbie, else ei-
ther I wouldn't have to ask or would already know whom to ask, right?
Here's the situation:
- I'm running what my Linux-guru son calls an "old" version of Debian
Linux on an HP Vectra 500 with a 133-MHz Pentium III, 80 MB memory
and a 3.1 Gig HD;
- Said guru son and my wife got together and surprised me with gift of an
HP DeskJet 932C printer as an Xmas gift; It does both B/W and color
and is supposed to be the best thing today since good sex;
- It's connected to the Linux-box's parallel port and runs as LPT1;
- I set it up using /usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig, and answered all the
questions, and it asked for output filter. Well, in /etc/magicfilter
there are: deskjet-filter, dj500-filter, dj500c-filter, dj550c-
filter and NO dj932c-filter. So we tried dj550c-filter (seemed
like the latest that had a 'c' suffix like this dj932c I have);
Uh-uh, the poor thing couldn't even print straight ASCII text
properly;
- So after all the experts had gone, I tried it all over again and ans-
wered the output-filter question with just plain 'deskjet-filter'--
Now it works great, not only with straight text but also from out of
Netscape-- postscript and all-- but only in B/W. No color. No way.
- So the basic issue is: How to print both B/W and color? Is there a
dj932c-filter laying around among someone's systems or archives? Or
is anyone thinking of creating one? Or can anyone tell me how to
modify anything I have to make this dj932c thing really work pro-
perly?
My utmost gratitude in advance!...
Regards,
- Phil
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| Phillip J. Rulon, Systems Mgr, UMass Dartmouth
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