Thank you for the test! If you hack anything and it improves the results
please tell me.
Anton Graham wrote:
>
> Printing to a real Lexmark 1100 with CUPS. Yes, it worked. Well,
> sort of:
>
> 1) Monochrome doesn't seem to work. I tried setting monochrome via
> the CUPS web config, the fpi file, and both (restarting CUPS each
The fpi file has no influence to CUPS it serves only for LPD.
> time), and after much moving of the printhead, I get a blank piece
> of paper. (Yes, I had a black cartridge in the printer.)
This is strange, perhaps it's a problem of the PPD file (You say later
that you got it working with LPD).
> 2) and this isn't wrong, per se, but the print (from a plaintext
> file) is about 50% larger than I was getting from it with LPD.
What do you mean? Is the file 50% bigger or the font on the printout.
>
> No dice under LPD, the job ends up in the bit bucket unless you make a
> link from ps-to-lm1100.fpi to ps-to-printer.fpi. If you want this to
> install cleanly with rhs-printfilters installed for use with lpd, you'll
> need to tell ppl that :/ Works fine with the link in place in either
> color or mono (with the appropriate change to the fpi).
So the people working on rhs-printfilters have to integrate
ps-to-lm1100.fpi in ps-to-printer.fpi.
Till