Sluggers and Debianites, I am having diffficulty getting printing working properly on a box on which I have installed a Debian (testing) distribution. I usually install apsfilter and lpr but this time I thought to try CUPS.
Among the 416 installed packages are the following which may be relevant to the discussion. cupsomatic-ppd, cupsys, cupsys-bsd, cupsys-client, cupsys-driver-gimpprint, cupsys-pstoraster, gimp1.2-print, gs, gsfonts, gsfonts-other, gsfonts-X11, gtklp, libcupsys2, libcupsys2-dev, libgimpprint-dev, libgimpprint-doc, libgimpprint4.1.7, libpaperg, and xpp. The printer is a Canon BJC-210. After much searching through documentation scattered through /usr/share/doc/... and man (this & that) I have produced some printed output. I have configured the printer by doing (as root) lpadmin -p Canon -E -v parallel:/dev/lp0 -m BJC-210-bjc600.ppd lpadmin -d Canon /etc/init.d/cupsys restart after which I can print a file (say) .bashrc by either lpr .bashrc or starting xpp and typing .bashrc in the box and clicking on "print". In either case the result is the same, the file is printed with no margins and the traditional "stair step" effect. xpp provides a clue in that it lists as the only available printer Canon: Local Raw Printer (single printer) so I guess some sort of filter is required. My question is what do I have to do to fix this? regards, Ken -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
