[98667] in RedHat Linux List
Canon BJ 200 Printing Under Red Hat 5.2
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Hite)
Tue Nov 10 00:26:07 1998
From: "Matt Hite" <mhite@hotmail.com>
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
Date: Mon, 09 Nov 1998 21:25:14 PST
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I don't quite know where to begin with this one. I installed Red Hat
5.2 a few weeks ago, and am having difficulties getting my printer to
fully function. I own a Canon BJ 200, which is supposedly supported
under the version of ghostscript shipped with Red Hat 5.2. I used to
the printtool program and set up the print queue and the print filter
and was able to successfully print an ASCII test page. However, when I
attempt the PostScript printing test, garbage (presumably raw
Postscript... although it was not plaintext like I've always expected
postscript to appear as) spews forth from my printer.
My question is, how can I manually verify all the settings that
printtool is supposed to change in my configuration files to make sure
everything is a-okay?
Things I have done to troubleshoot this so far include:
1. Ripping out my hair.
2. Manually running ghostscript and supplying the -sDEVICE=bj200 (or
something similar) argument along with a test .ps file. No luck.
3. Purchasing a new printer cable, making absolutely sure it was a
bi-directional cable. (Although it isn't IEEE-1284 compliant... but
this printer is old enough that it shouldn't require that.)
4. Tried other print filters (for the same manufacturer, different
models)
5. Made sure my BIOS settings for the LPT port were set to ECP + EPP.
Any ideas of what to start troubleshooting next? I've run out of ideas,
and I'm not entirely positive of the inner workings of how Red Hat has
implimented their printing system. I'd like to be able to walk through
each step of what printtool is supposed to modify.
Any help would be appreciated.
--Matt
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