I am able to see my printer as a share. Well better put, I see four representations of my printer: ascii, lp2, lp-mono, and raw. I tried the naive thing and just selected lp2 and added the cannon bjc 4000 driver for NT. This didn't work. I get an error report: %%[ Error: undefined; offending Command: K ]%% . . . a bunch of strings that I don't understand. This does not look like the typical ps code dump that I have seen before. Is there an easy answer? I'm using S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2 with the PS filter gadget that is provided with the distribution. TIA Steve -- The linux counter: http://counter.li.org -Registered Linux User # 79059 S.u.S.E. Linux: http://www.suse.com KDE: http://www.kde.org SaMBa: http://samba.anu.edu.au I think. I think I am, Therefore I am. I think? - Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues
Ambrose, Thank you. The raw gave exactly the same output as the lp2, but the QMS ColorScript 1000 Level 2 printed an NT test page just fine. It would be too easy for Bill to include a dirver that simply said PostScript, wouldn't it? Steve acli@mingpaoxpress.com wrote:> In article <35E3832A.259D8EBC@cpkwebser5.ncr.disa.mil> you write: > >I am able to see my printer as a share. Well better put, I see four > >representations of my printer: ascii, lp2, lp-mono, and raw. I tried > >the naive thing and just selected lp2 and added the cannon bjc 4000 > >driver for NT. This didn't work. I get an error report: > >%%[ Error: undefined; offending Command: K ]%% . . . a bunch of strings > >that I don't understand. This does not look like the typical ps code > >dump that I have seen before. Is there an easy answer? I'm using > >S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2 with the PS filter gadget that is provided with the > >distribution. > > This looks like lp2 is a PostScript RIP and you are passing non-PostScript > data through it (Canon BJC4000 is ESCP/2 IIRC). Try the "raw" queue instead. > > You can, of course, also try some colour (or non-colour) PostScript device > driver. The QMS colour printer drivers probably will work. > > -- > Ambrose C. Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> +1-416-321-0088 > Programmer-analyst/ system administrator/ PC user support > Ming Pao Newspapers (Canada) Ltd. EDP department > 1355 Huntingwood Dr., Scarborough (Ont.), Canada M1S 3J1-- The linux counter: http://counter.li.org -Registered Linux User # 79059 S.u.S.E. Linux: http://www.suse.com KDE: http://www.kde.org SaMBa: http://samba.anu.edu.au I think. I think I am, Therefore I am. I think? - Graeme Edge of the Moody Blues
I made this work with WFW 3.1 years ago with a generic postcript driver and a
DeskJet 500. It was kinda cool to have a postscript printer driven by
Ghostscript (which was written by a friend)
Now, under Weinerdoze95 and NT I have found that the postscript drivers are
all device dependant and did'nt work well with my new deskjet.
Printing raw to my DeskJet 672C, I use the Windoze deskjet 550c driver and
it all works well under both 95 and NT.
My printcap is:
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lp0:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter is a symlink to cat -- lpr/lpd seems to want the
input filter for some bloody reason.
Cheers,
Steve
At 01:03 PM 8/28/98 +1000, you wrote:>Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 23:37:07 -0400
>From: "Steven T. Hatton" <hattons@cpkwebser5.ncr.disa.mil>
>To: "samba@samba.anu.edu.au" <samba@samba.anu.edu.au>
>Subject: Re: Printing NT to Linux w\Cannon bjc-4000
>Message-ID: <35E4D463.12E5A478@cpkwebser5.ncr.disa.mil>
>
>Ambrose,
>
>Thank you. The raw gave exactly the same output as the lp2, but the QMS
>ColorScript 1000 Level 2 printed an NT test page just fine. It would be
>too
>easy for Bill to include a dirver that simply said PostScript, wouldn't
>it?
>
>Steve
>
>acli@mingpaoxpress.com wrote:
>
>> In article <35E3832A.259D8EBC@cpkwebser5.ncr.disa.mil> you write:
>> >I am able to see my printer as a share. Well better put, I see
four
>> >representations of my printer: ascii, lp2, lp-mono, and raw. I
tried
>> >the naive thing and just selected lp2 and added the cannon bjc
4000
>> >driver for NT. This didn't work. I get an error report:
>> >%%[ Error: undefined; offending Command: K ]%% . . . a bunch of
strings
>> >that I don't understand. This does not look like the typical
ps code
>> >dump that I have seen before. Is there an easy answer? I'm
using
>> >S.u.S.E. Linux 5.2 with the PS filter gadget that is provided with
the
>> >distribution.
>>
>> This looks like lp2 is a PostScript RIP and you are passing
non-PostScript
>> data through it (Canon BJC4000 is ESCP/2 IIRC). Try the "raw"
queue
instead.>>
>> You can, of course, also try some colour (or non-colour) PostScript
device
>> driver. The QMS colour printer drivers probably will work.
>>
>> --
>> Ambrose C. Li <acli@mingpaoxpress.com> +1-416-321-0088
>> Programmer-analyst/ system administrator/ PC user support
>> Ming Pao Newspapers (Canada) Ltd. EDP department
>> 1355 Huntingwood Dr., Scarborough (Ont.), Canada M1S 3J1