On Tue, 27 Jan 1998, Rolf Obrecht wrote:
> On Mon, 26 Jan 1998, Howard S. Ostrowsky wrote: > > > The first one is an HP LaserJet Plus (500K memory) with serial and > > parallel interfaces. It works well (parallel) under DOS and windows. > > In Linux I can print ascii text, but not post-script. I am using > > Magicfilter and Aladdin-Ghostscript, but when I send a postscript > > document to the printer it justs hangs. A log file says "25% done...50% > > Hi, > > I had a similar problem (using gs and magicfilter). I found that > ghostscript crashed while converting the PS-file to PCL. The effect was > that lpq said "all xxx bytes printed" but the printer remained silent and > no errormessages were generated. You might try to call the gs-commandline > for magicfilter from shell to see if gs hangs and fiddle with the drivers > or additional gs-switches to get it working. > > --- Hi, I think the laser jet+ prints postscript actually from graphic mode. With 500k memory, you can only get about 1/2 page of graphics while printing 300x300. See if you can configure Ghostscript to use less resolution (say 150x300 or something similar). That's what I had to do with windows and some dos programs. i.b.m. -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .