Re: Can't get apsfilter to work with my HP Deskjet 690C

[Jonas <jonasb@xxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 06 Feb 2003 05:39:21 +0100
Carsten Neumann <deltor@snafu.de> wrote:

> On Wed, 05 Feb 2003, Jonas wrote:
> [...]
> > I installed gv, and apspreview works now.
> 
> Fine! ;-)
> 
> > 
> > I can't print ps files or text files that says ISO-8859 English text
> > or ASCII text when I use the file command on them. When I use file
> > on one
> 
> OK, you cant't print Postscript files.
> 
> > of my text files it says data, I can print that file but it get
> > printed somehing like this:
> > Something dfsa
> > 	Text
> > 		Text
> > 			Text
> 
> "Something like ..." doesn't tell much.
> How does the formerly mentioned tiger.ps look?
> Are its first lines printed as text?
> 
> And please send an output of `lpq'.
> 
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The ghostscript port that I'm using does
rm -r $PKG/usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/{examples,doc}
I removed that line and recompiled ghostscript.

I can print tiger.ps. When I printed vasarely.ps, not much got printed,
but it took a long time to print, maybe thats because my printer can't
print colors for some strange reason. I have tried to print all the
ps-files in /usr/share/ghostscript/7.05/examples and some others, but
only tiger.ps and vasarely.ps got printed. On the others, all that got
printed was some lines of postscript on the first page, and then the
printer wanted more paper, it wrote postscript on some of the papers
that it got, on some it didn't write anything, it continued to do so
until I powered it off.

$ lpq
Printer: lp@localhost 'cdj670;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=a4;m=auto'
 Queue: no printable jobs in queue

$ lpr tiger.ps
$ lpq
Printer: lp@localhost 'cdj670;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=a4;m=auto'
 Queue: no printable jobs in queue
 Server: no server active
 Status: job 'root@localhost+294' saved at 23:04:21.630
 Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size
Time
done   root@localhost+294           A   294 tiger.ps             78599
23:00:44

$ lpr tiger.ps
$ lpq
Printer: lp@localhost 'cdj670;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=a4;m=auto'
 Queue: 1 printable job
 Server: pid 29429 active
 Unspooler: pid 29430 active
 Status: processing 'dfA427localhost', size 78599, format 'f', IF filter
'apsfilter' at 23:05:08.616
 Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size
Time
active root@localhost+427           A   427 tiger.ps             78599
23:05:08
done   root@localhost+294           A   294 tiger.ps             78599
23:00:44

$ lpr waterfal.ps 
$lpq
Printer: lp@localhost 'cdj670;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=a4;m=auto'
 Queue: 1 printable job
 Server: pid 29548 active
 Unspooler: pid 29549 active
 Status: processing 'dfA546localhost', size 2533, format 'f', IF filter
'apsfilter' at 23:09:14.454
 Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size
Time
active root@localhost+546           A   546 waterfal.ps           2533
23:09:14
done   root@localhost+427           A   427 tiger.ps             78599
23:05:08

$ lpr vasarely.ps 
$ lpq
Printer: lp@localhost 'cdj670;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=a4;m=auto'
 Queue: 1 printable job
 Server: pid 30090 active
 Unspooler: pid 30091 active
 Status: processing 'dfA088localhost', size 13189, format 'f', IF filter
'apsfilter' at 23:23:33.793
 Rank   Owner/ID                  Class Job Files                 Size
Time
active root@localhost+88            A    88 vasarely.ps          13189
23:23:33