From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 4 17:49:34 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA17140 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:49:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.164]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA17134 for ; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:49:30 -0800 (PST) Received: (from dwhite@localhost) by riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu (8.6.12/8.6.12) id RAA28492; Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:47:55 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Mar 1996 17:47:55 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu To: Michael J Vukovich cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Printing In-Reply-To: <96Mar4.132945pst.5891@gateway.photon.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk On Mon, 4 Mar 1996, Michael J Vukovich wrote: > > > We have been trying to set up a HP Laserjet > 4M Plus to print under FreeBSD. To this point > we have not been able to stop the staircase > effect from happening every time we print. We > down-loaded the handbook and followed the > instructions under the printing section and have > gotten nowhere. The input filter does not appear > to work (we used the exapmle filter included in > the handbook and many modifications), and we have > tried setting CRMOD and several other fixes in the > printcap file as well. Any suggestions that we might > try? How odd, that the input filter would not work. Have you doublechecked it against the LaserJet manual and made sure that is the proper command code? I have a DeskJet 500C that exibits the same behavior, but the sample worked fine. You may try installing one of the filters that are available, such as apsfilter and ... oh, there is another one that does more than apsfilter, but i can't remember the name. I have apsfilter and no staircase shows. > Our only other recourse we be to get Linux or > Solaris, since none of us have the time to waste > writing our own code to get around this problem. That would not be good. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major