From owner-freebsd-questions Sun May 25 08:03:47 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA24958 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 25 May 1997 08:03:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from asylum.asylum.org (dlr@asylum.org [208.13.58.130]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA24953 for ; Sun, 25 May 1997 08:03:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from dlr@localhost) by asylum.asylum.org (8.6.10/8.6.9) id KAA08392; Sun, 25 May 1997 10:02:13 -0400 Message-ID: <19970525100212.01743@asylum.asylum.org> Date: Sun, 25 May 1997 10:02:12 -0400 From: dlr To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Print question Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.66e Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I'm running freebsd 2.1 on a 486-66 and using a Star LS-5 with HP laserjet 2P emulation. I've read the freebsd handbook on printing and have tried multiple filters. Here is the problem: I have gotten ghostscript to work, and the first 2 or so pages come out ok, then i will get one line overwritten which is garbage, then more normal printing, then another line of overwritten garbage. The filters seems to work ok, and i'm beginning to wonder if this is a problem with the printer itself...i.e. the character set or something. I've had the same thing happen printing out ascii stuff also (long email files). If anyone has a clue about this i'd be interested. I've been thru about 2 reams of paper trying to figure this out and am just about ready to bail and buy a postscript printer. I posted to a ghostscript email list and didn't get one response, so i thought i'd try here, even though i know this probably isn't a freebsd problem. dave racette