Re: [MDLUG] stuck on apsfilter configuration

[Joe Landman <landman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

do a 

gs -help

It is entirely possible that ghostscript doesnt support your printer
model if it wants compiled in.  Try using -sDEVICE=hpdj or some of the
other drivers.

My advice is that you look at either CUPS, or LPRng.  Which distro is
this?  If it is redhat, use print tool.  It is worth saving the pain of
printer config.

If you are allowed to spend money, get the ESPrint stuff.

On Fri, 2002-07-19 at 19:36, Tom Allison wrote:
> OK.  I don't know what I did wrong here.  But once I had a printer that 
> worked.  But that was under Slackware 7.0.
> 
> I have to get a printer working by tomorrow or I will have to reinstall 
> Windows 98.
> 
> Do I really deserve that?
> 
> What do I have:
> I have a Deskjet 540 and I'm running apsfilter, or at least trying to. 
>  It did work once before -- but that was a few years ago.
> -----------------------------
> 
> Printing Test page using:
> gs -q -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -dPARANOIDSAFER                 -dSAFER 
> -r300x300 -sDEVICE=hpijs -sPAPERSIZE=letter               
> -sDeviceName=DJ540            
> -sOutputFile='/tmp/apsfilter19099/test_page.aps' setup/test.ps
> 
> Ok to print testpage? [y/n] y
> 
> Creating test page...
> unable to select DeviceName=DJ540
> 
> real    0m1.092s
> user    0m0.920s
> sys     0m0.010s
> 
> Printing test page...
> -rw-r--r--    1 root     root            0 Jul 19 19:33 
> /tmp/apsfilter19099/test_page.aps
> 
> real    0m0.004s
> user    0m0.000s
> sys     0m0.000s
> [ press RETURN to continue ]
> 
-- 
Joe Landman,
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