Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 01:18:22 -0700 (PDT) From: Rhys Cheung <reeser@CSUA.Berkeley.EDU> To: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Printer prints 2x the size... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980713010559.28200A-100000@soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU>
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I have an HP Laserjet4L attached to a serial port. When I print, it
doesn't feed until I press the button on my printer, and then perhpas it
will print something. The 4L is especially troublesome for me to
troubleshoot because it has a single button, with 4 indicator lights
indicating that an incoming signal is detected, paper is feeding, out of
paper, and paper jam. It automatically turns on when it senses data from
the computer.
When I start a print job (either text, Postscript through ghostscript, or
from Netscape), the power would turn on, then the paper feed would start
flashing as if it is expecting a manually fed page. Usually pressing the
button would override manual feed and begin printing, but in this case, it
doesn't always do that.
When it does print, I get output that is twice as large as it should be,
meaning that I get a quarter of the page printed in double-sized
characters. Through Netscape, no button-pressing would make it respond,
and the paper feed light would keep on flashing.
I suspect that the blown-up text has to do with a DPI mistake. It is a
300dpi printer. Here is what my /etc/printcap says:
ascii|lp1|ljet4l-letter-ascii-mono|ljet4l ascii mono:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/ljet4l-letter-ascii-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/ljet4l-letter-ascii-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/ljet4l-letter-ascii-mono/acct:\
:if=/home/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4l-letter-ascii-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp|lp2|ljet4l-letter-auto-mono|ljet4l auto mono:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/ljet4l-letter-auto-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/ljet4l-letter-auto-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/ljet4l-letter-auto-mono/acct:\
:if=/home/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4l-letter-auto-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
raw|lp3|ljet4l-letter-raw|ljet4l auto raw:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/ljet4l-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/ljet4l-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/ljet4l-raw/acct:\
:if=/home/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-ljet4l-letter-raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
I had a few friends of mine look it over, and they were not familiar
enough with printing problems to give me a solution. A friend had set up
basically the entire OS for me--I'm just still getting used to UNIX--so I
don't know much about the details and what I could look at. If you can
point me to printing-related files, or better yet, solve the problem, it
would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.
Sincerely,
Rhys Cheung
Computer Science Undergraduate Association
University of California at Berkeley
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