Michael Loßin on Fri, 15 Mar 2002 19:58:49 +0100 (CET)(envelope-from owner-apsfilter-help@apsfilter.org)


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RE: PCL output as text from OS X


On 14-Mar-02 Varady Zoltan wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm trying to set up apsfilter to print from my Mac OS X machine to a HPLJ 
> 1100 connected to an SMC broadband router (using its lp daemon). I'm using 
> ghostscript 7.02 and apsfilter 7.2.2.
> The files are getting filtered all right, and the data is getting through, 
> but the printer starts printing ") HP-PCL XL;1;1Comment Copyright Aladdin 
> Enterprises ..." - it seems that the PCL is not interpreted as such, but is
> interpreted as text.

The MacOS X spooler probably sends print jobs in
raw mode, cause everything to be passed through.
Try including "IGNORE_LPD_RAW=set" in the appropriate
apsfilterrc file.


HTH
Michael