From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 9 11: 9:56 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3165B1567B for ; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 11:09:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.9.3/8.9.2) id NAA65052; Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:09:50 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from bdodson) Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:09:50 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199907091809.NAA65052@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: "Pleschutznig, Andreas" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Problems with incomplete printing In-Reply-To: <11585F032846CF11867900805FE2A57706D617DE@n1002smx.nt.schwab.com> References: <11585F032846CF11867900805FE2A57706D617DE@n1002smx.nt.schwab.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.34 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Pleschutznig, Andreas writes: > Hi everybody, > > I just finished setting up my home gateway system, and server. Then I wanted > to declare the system to be a server for everything at home. (Disk, printer, > ...) So far disk is working like a charm, but I'm having slight problems > with the setup of the printing service. > > My printer is a Epson Stylus 500 and I connected it via the parallel port > /dev/lpt0. Printing with all goodies, like gs and magicfilter works great as > long as the print fits into the buffer ram of the printer. If I try to print > a longer printout, I only get a half way printed page. It seems to me that > for some reason not everything is printed. > What happens when you do the conversion from postscript to Epson code manually on the command line (for example, converting the tiger), then sending the resulting Epson code to the raw printer port? If this works, then your lpr filter setup is likely at fault. If the raw printer port job fails, then your ghostscript setup is suspect. I've no experience with magicfilter, I use apsfilter, which I recommend. However, not everyone wants to install teTeX just to prettyprint their man pages. ;-) > Any hints on why my printer (system) doesn't print longer reports? > > Thanks > > O, BTW I'm running 3.2 stable > > > -- > Andreas Pleschutznig > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message