Subject: Need printer help Date: Sat, Mar 27, 1999 at 01:41:41AM -0500
In reply to:Robbie Huffman Quoting Robbie Huffman([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > I'm hoping someone out here can help me discover why my printer won't print. > > Until not very long ago, I was using a Slackware system, and sending my > infrequent print jobs by hand using "gs -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=laserjet > -sOutputFile=/dev/lp1". Now that I've switched to Debian, I can't get that > much to > work anymore. A good "tunelp /dev/lp1 -r" gets some response from the printer > (in the form of some printhead movement), but nothing else will. Using gs > sometimes causes the "busy" light to come on, but it quickly blinks out again. > The Printing-HOWTO doesn't have any debugging hints. I'm lost. And my only > guess is that the Debian setup for lpt1 is somehow different. Any pointers? > > Thanks, > Robbie Huffman > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > do You have a /etc/printcap file? I seem to reall that Slack makes that for you. If not, get the magicfilter package. Run magicfilterconfig and answer a few questions. Your printer will then talk to you, again. HTH -- Bringing computers into the home won't change either one, but may revitalize the corner saloon. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>