On Sat, Jun 07, 2008 at 11:46:14AM -0600, Michael wrote:
>
> Dave and others:
> I tried everything you wrote here, but it/they didn't work. In fact, printing
> was worse :(
> About 8 pages with 1 to 5 lines of "gibberish" or weird characters like I
> used to see when programming on my C64!
> I had written a lengthy and detailed reply with all steps I took in using
> your example commands and then lost it :( I tried to save the draft, but it
> didn't save.
> I even tried adding lp to the front of the line:
> dj870|cdj850;r=300x300;q=high;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\
> but that didn't help either.
> I went back to my original printcap (as shown below) and finally got back to
> the 2 lines of ii, m, k, i, mm.
>
> I may try what Jonathon wrote to see if it works and I already have the
> programs/files installed.
>
> I have a few things to do today, but can work on this "in-between" times.
>
> Thanks everybody for your help. Whatever I do/try, I'll let you know how it
> goes because I do need to get this printer working.
>
>
> Mike
>
Maybe you need ghostscript to make something your printer understands
even when printing text? I don't remember everything I did to get
mine working (it's also a kind of HP ink jet) but I know at the
time it involved getting a newer version of ghostscript, perhaps
hpijs, and using the foomatic-rip script from cups. I definitely
needed to use ghostscript to print everything. I think foomatic-rip
looks after making that happen. And I've used a2ps or enscript to
go from text to postscript (which ghostscript converts to whatever
the printer takes). This is what my printcap looks like.
# $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
# HP C5100 with ethernet interface
# trying the foomatic-rip way without cups or apsfilter.
# note: foomatic can't deal with a gzipped ppd.
lp|HP C5100, filter:\
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:sd=/var/spool/output:\
:af=/usr/local/share/ppd/HP/HP-PhotoSmart_C5100-hpijs.ppd:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/foomatic-rip:\
:pl=68:\
:mx#0:sh:
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Mike Small
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