Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Johann Spies
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:11:58PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: > We have a HP laser printer here with a JetDirect server. It's, of > course, Windows optimized, so all LPR clients have to suffer from the > staircase effect > which occurs > when the print

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach Kevin Buhr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.17.1938 +0100]: > Let me add that, in the past, I've had nothing but trouble using HP's > JetDirect... erm... directly. They've probably improved things since > I last had to deal with it, but their old network stack couldn't > handle more than o

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Kirk Strauser
At 2003-02-17T14:11:58Z, martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Or should I use this "opportunity" to (finally) upgrade to CUPS? I'd suggest CUPS. Once you have it running, you'll probably wish you'd done it earlier. -- Kirk Strauser In Googlis non est, ergo non est. msg31337/pgp0

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Kevin Buhr
martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > apsfilter. is there another method, maybe one with less weight? Well, the "ifhp" package contains the "standard" LPRng input filter, assuming you're using LPRng. If you want a dumb filter (one that doesn't make any effort to, say, print PostScript

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread nate
martin f krafft said: > Or should I use this "opportunity" to (finally) upgrade to CUPS? not sure what your using now but for me and a few others CUPS on debian woody worked great when printing to a laserjet 4000/M. single or double sided I think, our printers were all black and white. it was rea

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread Derrick 'dman' Hudson
On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:11:58PM +0100, martin f krafft wrote: | We have a HP laser printer here with a JetDirect server. It's, of | course, Windows optimized, so all LPR clients have to suffer from the | staircase effect | which occurs | when the print

Re: how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
also sprach martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2003.02.17.1511 +0100]: > Since I am not the only one with that problem, I am asking here for > advise on how to solve this the least "hacky" way. Can't I just > apt-get install something to fix it? apsfilter. is there another method, maybe one with

how to get rid of the staircase effect

2003-02-17 Thread martin f krafft
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