Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2001-02-05 Thread Philipp Schulte
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 08:54:41PM -0500, S . Salman Ahmed wrote: But that is all I have been able to print. When I try using either of the two frontend, qtcups or xpp, to print a file, I can see the Data LED on the printer blink but nothing gets printed. The log file shows the following:

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
S.Salman Ahmed wrote: c == csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS c setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's c probably a printer-queue problem. My own experience: I spent two c day figuring out

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): S.Salman Ahmed wrote: c == csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS c setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's c probably a printer-queue problem. My own

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread Oliver Elphick
David Wright wrote: Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): What's the difference b/w lpr foo.txt and lpr -P lp foo.txt ? There is no difference, so long as lp is the first printer defined in /etc/printcap. -P is needed to address any printer apart from the default .

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread David Wright
Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): David Wright wrote: Quoting Oliver Elphick (olly@lfix.co.uk): What's the difference b/w lpr foo.txt and lpr -P lp foo.txt ? There is no difference, so long as lp is the first printer defined in /etc/printcap. -P is needed to

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread csj
On Tuesday 12 December 2000 09:36, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: c == csj [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: c Can you (the original poster) print to file using your CUPS c setup? If you can print to file, but not to the printer, it's c probably a printer-queue problem. My own experience: I

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-12 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 08:36:24PM -0500, S.Salman Ahmed wrote: I think I will need a filter setup, even though I thought I wouldn't need one with a PS printer, since the Optra E312 only seems to Postscript Level 2. Using a printcap supplied by another member of this list, I get

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread MH
Vi scribis: I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, unsuccessfully, to configure. I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, qtcups and xpp, the last two packages being

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread Manegold
S.Salman Ahmed wrote: I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, unsuccessfully, to configure. I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, qtcups and xpp, the last two

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread Carl Johnson
S.Salman Ahmed [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, unsuccessfully, to configure. I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, qtcups and xpp,

Optra E312 printers (was Re: Setting up a postscript printer)

2000-12-11 Thread Bob Nielsen
On Sun, Dec 10, 2000 at 09:02:32PM -0800, Carl Johnson wrote: I recently installed the same type of printer and had no problems, but I didn't use CUPS. I just have the basic lpr and magicfilter packages installed, and just told magicfilterconfig that I had a 600dpi laser printer. It

Re: Setting up a postscript printer

2000-12-11 Thread csj
On Monday 11 December 2000 15:55, MH wrote: Vi scribis: I have a Lexmark Optra E312 Postscript printer that I am trying, unsuccessfully, to configure. I decided to use CUPS as the LinuxPrinting-HOWTO mentions that to be quite easy. So I apt-get installed cupsys, cupsys-bsd,