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Re: * HP L5 laser printer: problem!! *
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Otto Hammersmith)
Mon Oct 21 18:41:45 1996
From: Otto Hammersmith <ohammers@cu-online.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 14:00:12 -0500 (CDT)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.SOL.3.93.961022021607.21736A-100000@hkusua.hku.hk> from "Ferdinand Mo" at Oct 22, 96 02:26:35 am
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Make sure printing the header page is turned off... it's a little
check box in the printtool.
or you can add ":sh:" (without the quotes, of course) to the entry in
/etc/printcap for you printer... that stands for supress headers.
The basic problem is that HP printers expect DOS-type text for plain
text printing, and Red Hat, of course feeds it Unix-type text for the
header page. It's the classic CR/LF problem.. so the printer never
goes onto the next line to start printing.
Has anyone managed to configure lpd to print a header page in
postscript? (before the gs filter runs for non-postscript printers,
of course) That would solve the whole problem.
Ferdinand Mo wrote:
>
>
> Hi, I've set *everything* with printtool. But my HP L5 laser
> printer is still not working *properly* under my RedHat 3.0.3...
>
> Problem: when I use 'lpr filename' to print a file, it outputs
> a blank paper with the following two lines first...
> --
> t t
> r rrr oooo
> --
> Then the second page is the thing which I really wanted to see...
>
> The following is the printcape made by printtool:
> ------------- /etc/printcap ----------------
> ##PRINTTOOL## LOCAL ljet4 600x600 a4 {}
> lp:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :mx#0:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
> ---------------------------------------------
> I've tried using 'laserjet', 'ljet4' and 'ljetplus' for Printer Type
> and found 'ljet4' is the most ideal one.
>
> So.. what's wrong? and what can I do?
>
> Thank you very much!!!
>
> regards,
>
> Ferd
>
>
>
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