Re: Help...still not working.

[John Gelm <jgelm@xxxxxxx>]

scorcora@wisc.edu wrote:

>Okay, I'm now running apsfilter 7.2.2, and lprng 3.8.12 and gs 7.05, and hpijs
>1.3.  On my slackware 8.1 machine, with my hpdj 612c.
>
>And when I try to print a plain text file from commandline using the command
>"lpr file.txt", it prints the first line, then where the first line ends it goes
>to that point right below it on the next line before it starts printing the
>second line.  So the text runs off the page after line 2 and then it stops.
>
>I still need to get this solved.
>What was the next step, other than getting a new printer?
>
>
>sl
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>"Never underestimate the usefulness of eccentrics and lunatics."
>--Lionel Luther, fictional character
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sl;

FWIW, I too am using Slackware 8.1. As a *non-root* user, I am printing 
to an HP-656c which is on a windows 98 system.  

Before running SETUP I did 'mv /etc/printcap /etc/printcap.0' because I 
wanted to ensure that I had 'lp' as my default.  Otherwise, this was a 
clean/pristine Slackware 8.1 install.  SETUP wrote a new etc/printcap. 
 Be sure to select 'o'verwite, not 'a'dd in SETUP.

I have seen the stair-step print when printing from gimp.  This was 
solved, in gimp ,by using the print setup button and choosing the HP 
Deskjet 600/600C instead of Postscript level 2.   That this selection 
works is interesting because my 656 is in the AP2000 series, whereas 
your 612 is in the 600 series.  Look in 
/usr/doc/hpijs-1.1/hpjs-readme.html.  Your 612 s/b ok.

Printing from mozilla works as default.  

echo "test"|lp  works.

Regards;
John