Re: problems printing

["Amin A. Khaef" <akhaef@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

To Alf,

I thank you for helping me so quickly.  An hour hadn't even passed
until you replied.  It's people like you who make reaching out for help
worthwile.

Anyway, I figured out the problem soonafter.  The command the script was
sending to gs had -sModel=hpdj.  This caused the following errors in the
logfile.
? Device hpdj: Unknown model name: `hpdj'.
a2ps: received signal 13: Broken pipe

To remedy this, I just went into the apsfilter script and set
PRINTER=hpdj_unspec

That did it, but I figure that's not too clean of an approach to fix it.
However, I don't know enough about lpd/unix/linux/apsfilter/maybe some
other things to fix it without actually editting the script :(.

Once again, thanks
-Al

PS...  It prints at a blazingly fast speed now :D.  I think I'm in love
with apsfilter.  I can finally stop using pdq :(

PPS... Sorry I didn't enable logging and read the logfiles earlier.  I
hope I didn't waste too many people's time.

 On Mon, 13 Nov 2000, Alf C Stockton wrote:

> What did your lpr command look like ? I attach my /etc/printcap as my
> environment is exactly the same as your and my apsfilter works beautifully
> on my Epson Stylus Color 660.
> 
> ---
> 
> Regards,
> Alf Stockton	www.stockton.co.za
> Good Things require a precise lack of control.
> 
> On Sun, 12 Nov 2000, Amin A. Khaef wrote:
> 
> > Hello.
> > 
> > I have been trying to print under linux for some time now.  I first tried
> > lpd-o-matic, and failed completely (probably due to my own lack of
> > understanding).
> > 
> > Anyway, I later found out about apsfilter and decided to give it a try.
> > 
> > I ran the SETUP script, and Yipee!!!  The test page prints
> > beautifully.  However, after I complete the setup, and I try to run lpr on
> > some files, it doesn't work.  After a long while, the printer spits out
> > "Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .putdeviceprops".  I've tried printing
> > plain text to the raw device and the default device, and also lpr-ing the
> > ghostscript example file "tiger.gs".  No luck, same problem.
> > 
> > I'm using: slackware 7.1
> > kernel: 2.2.16
> > ghostscript: 6.01
> > a2ps: 4.13
> > apsfilter: 5.4.2
> > 
> > Any help would be greatly appreciated.  I feel like I'm ALMOST at the
> > light at the end of the tunnel, cause the test page printed.
> > 
> > 
> > Thanks
> > -Al
> > 
>