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To: Steve Prentice <steve@aries.bbcc.org>
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From: "Gary Palmer" <gpalmer@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject: Re: Laser Printers 
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Date: Fri, 29 Mar 1996 04:35:44 +0000
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Steve Prentice wrote in message ID
<Pine.BSF.3.91.960328201329.1669A-100000@aries>:
> I am having difficulty setting up a HPLJII on my system.  I have a 
> regular line printer (dot matrix) set up and working fine, but my Laser 
> Printer just spits out blank pages win I print to it.  What changes do I 
> need to make to the default printcap entry to get my HPLJII to work fine?

The HP series have a warped view of the world (thanks to Microsoft)
and need CR/LF combinations to work properly, which of course you
don't get under UN*X-like OS's. The blank pages happen 'cos all the
text has scrolled off the right hand side of the page.

Try using `apsfilter' (I believe you can find it in ports). I use it
with my DeskJet 500 and it works fine, and allows you to print text,
PostScript and other formats direct to the printer.

Gary