Re: Printer Loop?

["Alex Harrington" <fastkeys@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I sorted this out myself in the end.

What I did was remove APSFilter 5.4.2 and install the Slackware package of
APSFilter - 4.* I think. I enabled the remote printing hack and all is well
and I am happy!

Thanks for all the work on a superb filter.

Alex

-----Original Message-----
From: s. keeling [mailto:keeling@spots.ab.ca]
Sent: 06 October 2000 04:10
To: Alex Harrington
Subject: Re: Printer Loop?


On Thu, Oct 05, 2000 at 08:48:39PM +0100, Alex Harrington wrote:
> Hi
>
> I'm trying to set up a remote printer using APSFilter to do postcript
[snip]
> My guess is a print loop but I can't figure out why?
>
> Details:
> Printer HP Laserjet 4+ (lj)
> Ghostscript 5.something
> Pentium 400 running Slackware 4.0

lpr or lprng?  From what I've heard, you should be using the latter
with remote queues, if only for security reasons.

I run Debian.  I had a lot of success just by uninstalling everything
involved (apsfilter, lpr, something else I can't remember off-hand :-),
than re-installing them again.  ... Which is easy in Debian, and may
be a pain in the butt in Slack (I ran Slack as soon as it appeared and
changed to Debian a couple of years after).




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