Re: Please help - JetDirect blues

[Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

SuSE's calls their susefilter apsfilter
In former times it was heavily based on apsfilter
but the products now have nothing in common.

YaST assumes you run susefilter.

You can use apsfilter, but then please use apsfilters own SETUP
tool ...

	Andreas ///

On Wed, Mar 14, 2001 at 12:12:28PM -0300, Eduardo Grosclaude wrote:
> Dear all, please help me with this!!!!!!!
> 
> My setup: JetDirect EX Plus  - Laserjet 5P - lprold spooling stuff -
> Ghostscript 5.50. The apsfilter script says:
> #  apsfilter    Line Printer Input Filter
> #  Version:     SuSE-1.8
> #  Copyright 1996-2000 SuSE GmbH
> #  Author:   Werner Fink  <werner@suse.de>
> #  NOTE: You really NEED bash to run this script
> #  (Not)Heavily based on apsfilter-4.9 
> ...
> 
> (Please don't flame me for not running the latest apsfilter, I happen to
> have a SuSE 7.0 installation right out of the box so I thought it should
> work just like that. When things got hard, I downloaded apsfilter 6.0 but
> couldn't manage to get on with it either so I'm back to the installation
> packages. :P )
> 
> First I make a remote printer by using SuSE's YAST tool and then set up
> the 'logical' auto, raw, ascii printers pointing to it. The 'remote' printer
> works -- it outputs the normal staircase-effect text. I can even get
> decent output by addressing the 'ascii' printer. When I come to "lpr
> something.ps" the queues in /var/spool/lpd show some activity, then the
> JetDirect gizmo flashes, then the printer blinks for some seconds, then
> nothing. I had the JetDirect redirect output to my syslog. I see this from time
> to time:
> 
> Mar 14 12:00:55 jetdirect  printer: offline or intervention needed
> Mar 14 12:00:57 jetdirect  printer: error cleared 
> 
> Apart from that, no mail, no logs, no errors.  Could there be something wrong
> with  the PCL being generated? When I purposedly send a supposedly PCL file to
> the 'remote' printer all I get is one or two blank pages. I have selected
> lj5gray and lj5mono drivers for the logical printers, same results. The printer
> name on the JetDirect is alternatively raw or lp, same results.
> 
> How can I make this work? TIA
> 
> 
> -- 
> Eduardo Grosclaude                  oso@uncoma.edu.ar
> Universidad Nacional del Comahue - Neuquen, Argentina

	Andreas ///

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