On Thu, Feb 19, 2004 at 02:20:28PM -0800, Paul Yeatman wrote: > Hi, I recently inherited an HP Deskjet 932C printer. Apparently this > only uses the PCL printer language. As I need to be able to print > postscript for this to be of much use to me, I've been struggling to > make this happen. > > I'm running stable Debian using lprng and ifhp as printer software. > According to ifhp documentation, I need to us ghostscript to convert a > postscript to (I suppose) PCL so that it can be printed on a printer > like mine. Ultimately, this can be setup in the ifhp config file but > I'm trying to successfully show that I can do this with ghostscript, > 'gs', alone first.
I ran for years and years with a PCL printer under lpd. So it's definitely possible. I haven't configured it under Debian, though. I did it with printtool, both under Red Hat 6.2 and Libranet 2.0 through 2.7. I was never able to get it to work under CUPS, not because it was PCL, but because its parallel interface was receive-only and it couldn't report identification and status back to the host's parallel port. As far as I could tell, the only file that needed to be configured after installing lpd was /etc/printcap. Unfortunately, there's some stuff in there that isn't well-documented, so I had to let printtool do the job. You could probably download it from Red Hat, or there might even be a .deb for all I know. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]