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Subject: Re: Apsfilter setup test page does nothing ...
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On Saturday 01 October 2005 17:02, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> I am trying to get my HP Deskjet 720C working via the parallel port lpt0.
>
> After running through the apsfilter setup program and configuring all
> the required stuff, I choose T) Print a test page, but nothing happens,
> namely:
>
> Ok to print testpage? [y/n] y
>
> Creating test page...
>
> real    0m5.208s
> user    0m1.358s
> sys     0m0.336s
>
> Printing test page...
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  104370928 Oct  1 17:44
> /tmp/apsfilter1140/test_page.aps
>
> ...and then nothing.
>
> the tmp-file is created but what now?
>
> lpd is running:
>
> kiffin@laptop$ ps -aux | grep lpd
> root     396  0.0  0.2  1364   940  ??  Is    5:13PM   0:00.01
> /usr/sbin/lpd
>
> Any ideas?

Is there a driver for the 720C now?  last time I looked it wasn't supported 
(quite some time ago now) mainly due to being a "winprinter" ie no inbuilt 
inteligence.

-- 
Dave