Re: New HP Inkjet driver

[Carsten Neumann <deltor@xxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, 17 Dec 2001, Michael Loßin wrote:
> On 17-Dec-01 Carsten Neumann wrote:
> > I'm really confused.
> > The only thing I did was to uninstall an older version of ghostscript
> > from _another_ dir and
> > several re-compilations and -installations of hpijs and ghostscript.
> > I still can use ghostscript to display .ps and .pdf file and print to
> > other (non-postscript)
> > printers.
> > 
> > The only thing that doesn't work is the `ijs' device!
> > Messages like `unable to spawn ijs server=/usr/bin/hpijs' are
> > displayed.
> > Sometimes no error is shown, but still no output.
> 
> Does /usr/bin/hpijs exist at all? This is the server for
> ijs output (a great idea from HP) which is spawned by gs.
> Maybe it was just installed into a different location
> (e.g. /usr/local/bin).

That all was fine.
I understood this client/server concept well. :-)
I tried numerous times to re-install hpijs in different location.
Also ran ldconfig several times - due to some packages removements libs could have changed.
That all didn't work.

But after I rebooted _AND_ re-made and re-installed hpijs and ghostscript I was able to print again
via hpijs.
I don't have the faintest idea what was cleaned up by the reboot.
This reminds me of old MacOS or - as was told to me - Windoze behaviour!


> 
> 
> HTH
> Michael


Thank you for your help
Kind regards

	Carsten