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Re: printing problem on Red Hat 4.0

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jae H Shin)
Sat Nov 16 13:39:57 1996

Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 11:37:38 -0700 (MST)
From: Jae H Shin <jshin@U.Arizona.EDU>
To: TDWidrick@aol.com
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In-Reply-To: <961116124439_604111691@emout18.mail.aol.com>
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i'm suffering from the same problem w/ DEC serial postscript printer.
anybody else?
any solutions yet?


- jae


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Sat, 16 Nov 1996 TDWidrick@aol.com wrote:

> 
> Hi,
> 
>   I have a postscript printer that I set it up in 'control-panel'.  I read
> the howto, scanned through this list and recompiled my kernel.
> 
> Here's what happens with postscript files:
>   lpr test.ps                          <-- my printer blinks, but doesn't
> print
>   cat test.ps > /dev/lp1          <-- THIS PRINTS!
> 
> Here's what happens with ascii files (with printer in PCL mode):
>   lpr -Ppcl test.txt                          <-- my printer prints illegibly
> ...
>                                                           (a few words can be
> seen)
> 
> 
> Thanks for any help,
> Tim
> 
> 
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Jae Shin
jshin@aruba.ccit.arizona.edu
jshin@convx1.ccit.arizona.edu


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