[4696] in RedHat Linux List
printing problem on Red Hat 4.0
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ray Curtis)
Sat Nov 16 13:56:39 1996
Date: Sat, 16 Nov 1996 13:53:32 -0500
From: ray@fred.net (Ray Curtis)
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TDWidrick@aol.com writes:
>
> 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)
I think it might help to determine your problem if you included more
details, such as Version, /etc/printcap and printer type. You might
also look thru the archieve's for printing, I think you will find a
lot of things there.
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