Re: lp-device trouble again

1997-04-24 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If it's a "line-termination character problem", how can solve it? Well, with HP printers, there's a control character that you can send the character to set the convention. I don't know what you'd do for other printers, or even if it's actually relevant, but I'd say y

Re: lp-device trouble

1997-04-23 Thread Jaldhar H. Vyas
You have received some good answers and hopefully one of them will help. I'd like to add one thing. I recently had a similiar problem. I followed the docs diligently and installed everything perfectly but I still could not print. Then out of frustration I deinstalled apsfilter and tried magicfil

Re: lp-device trouble

1997-04-23 Thread Rob Browning
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print. > If I try to print anything (via "cat" as root, or with "lpr"), > the device seems to receive data, because its display says > so ("PROCESSING...WAITING..." and then "READY"). > But it still does not print

Re: lp-device trouble

1997-04-23 Thread Steve Hsieh
If this is a postscript only printer, are you sending it a postscript file or just characters to /dev/lp0? The fact that it says processing suggests that it is receiving your data, but it can't understand what you're sending it. Try cat'ing a real (short) postscript file to the printer and see if