On Fri, 2 Feb 2001, lee johnson wrote:
> sorry if this is "oldhat" :)
>
> sometimes when i try to print..instead of the correct content I get
> weird abstract ascii like characters and the printout "wont' stop"..no
> doubt a spool issue i'm just not sure how it all jives..
>
Sounds like trying to print PostScript to a non-PostScript printer. You
don't have the print filter set up correctly to translate PostScript to
what your printer understands.
>
> i'm not even getting gimp to print now..
> wheni try to print ascii output via printtool it says error printing
> test page to queue lp
> a bunch of ref.'s to localhost stuff and later it mentions
> error msg:printer lp chdir to /var/spool/lpd/lp failed permission
> denied..
>
Sounds like the /var/spool/lpd/lp directory isn't there, or doesn't have
the correct permissions. It should be:
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp 1024 Nov 29 21:10 lp
>
> ?
>
> thanks
> lee
> -====
>
You may want to run printtool and redo your printer setup.
Mikkel
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