Re: Is printing broke on sparc ?

Jesse Pollard (pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil)
Tue, 17 Apr 2001 07:37:50 -0500 (CDT)


"Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>:
[snip]
> .. ie: cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp0 (or /dev/par0)
> gets me :
>
> /c#eodiecnyotai rhernili s to rpaemn
> s eehpo o-.ROLPR0 roif{\=sl:x
> /p:ao/lr
> which is where it rolls off the paper .
> printer is a DECLaser 2200 . I have the PostScript option card
> for it , but when it is installed -notthing- gets output so I
> tried the above experiment without it installed . With the option
> installed the display shows 'PS Waiting' Then shortly 'PS
> Processing' then 'PS Ready' . This happens whether I cat .ps
> files or not . I beleive that something is garbling the data
> being sent .

I have the 5100 printer - It is expecting PCL when the PS option is not
set. With it set, it only prints postscript.

What I did was to pass the data through enscript/nenscript to convert
to postscript. Then I had no problems at all.

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Jesse I Pollard, II
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