Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2001-02-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:54:41PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: > But that is all I have been able to print. When I try using either of > the two frontend, qtcups or xpp, to print a file, I can see the Data LED > on the printer blink but nothing gets printed. The log file shows the > following:

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:36:24PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > I think I will need a filter setup, even though I thought I wouldn't > need one with a PS printer, since the Optra E312 only seems to > Postscript Level 2. > > Using a printcap supplied by another member of this list, I get > stair

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread csj
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:36, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: > > "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > c> Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS > c> setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's > c> probably a printer-queue problem. My own

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): > David Wright wrote: > >Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): > >> >What's the difference b/w "lpr foo.txt" and "lpr -P lp foo.txt" ? > >> > > >> There is no difference, so long as lp is the first printer defined in > >> /etc/printcap. -

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
David Wright wrote: >Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): >> >What's the difference b/w "lpr foo.txt" and "lpr -P lp foo.txt" ? >> > >> There is no difference, so long as lp is the first printer defined in >> /etc/printcap. -P is needed to address any printer apart from the defa

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): > "S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > >> "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >c> Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS > >c> setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's > >c> probably a printer-qu

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: >> "c" == csj <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >c> Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS >c> setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's >c> probably a printer-queue problem. My own experience: I spent two >

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread csj
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,

Optra E312 printers (was Re: Setting up a postscript printer)

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:02:32PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: > > I recently installed the same type of printer and had no problems, but > I didn't use CUPS. I just have the basic lpr and magicfilter packages > installed, and just told magicfilterconfig that I had a 600dpi laser > printer. It ce

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread Carl Johnson
"S.Salman Ahmed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread Manegold
"S.Salman Ahmed" wrote: > > 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

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread MH
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