Stephan Windmüller on Mon, 4 Mar 2002 19:12:48 +0100 (CET)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org)


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No config files created by SETUP


Hi there!

Since I changed to Debian one week ago, I tried to set up my printer
which worked fine with CUPS. But then I got serious problems with it
and changed to apsfilter, which also does not work as I want it to.
But step by step:

I want to print PostScript-Files out of OpenOffice, Web-Sites with
Opera, Text-Files, etc. So I need a filter, which converts PostScript
into something my printer (HP DeskJet 940C) supports, right?

Setting up apsfilter does not work with the debian packages so I
installed the newest sources. All works fine, test-page printed,
/etc/printcap is created:

| lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
|         :lp=/dev/lp0:\
|         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
|         :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
|         :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
|         :pl#66:\
|         :pw#80:\
|         :pc#150:\
|         :mx#0:\
|         :sh:

But where is apsfilter in this?
I added the line

|         :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\

and restarted lpd.

Then apsfilter wants the file /etc/apsfilter/log/apsfilterrc
which is not there. Copying and modifying
/etc/apsfilter/apsfilterrc was my next step. All activated options in
this file:

PRINTER=cdj970
PAPERSIZE=a4
METHOD=auto
QUALITY=medium
COLOR=gray

At the moment printing web-pages does not work, error-message from
/var/log/lp-errs is:

| GNU Ghostscript 6.51: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1
| sed: couldn't write 1 item to {standard output}: Broken pipe

PostScript-Files given with 'lpr -P lp <file>' are printed,
but scaled wrong.

Please, what can I do to get this thing work?

Thanks for any help
Stephan