On Sat, 5 Jul 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > I have an old bubble jet BJ-10SX cannon printer. > I have just set up lprng and magicfilter. I can print but only text . > I am not very sure as to how to incorporate the filter in /etc/printcap > I have triad the if statement and it didn't work. > ( :if=\usr\sbin\magicfilter:\ ) I would be grateful if > someone could send me their printcap file to see how it is done. Also I > would like o know the > appropriate name e.t.c. for my printer. Any help will be much appreciated
Have you tried running the program "/usr/sbin/magicfilterconfig"? It is supposed to configure the printer for you automatically. Is your printer compatible with BJ-10e? Magicfilter comes with a configuration file for it. BTW, I think your setting in printcap failed for two reasons. First, you used "\" for the pathnames. This is UNIX, not DOS, so you should use "/" instead. :) Second, you do not call "/usr/bin/magicfilter" directly from /etc/printcap. Instead, when you use magicfilterconfig, it will create the /usr/sbin/bj10e-filter, which runs magicfilter and parses the configuration in bj10e-filter. For example, I have the following in my /etc/printcap: :if=/usr/sbin/epsonstc500-filter: Good luck! Anthony -- Anthony Fok Tung-Ling [EMAIL PROTECTED] Civil Engineering http://www.ualberta.ca/~foka/ University of Alberta, Canada Keep smiling! *^_^* -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .
