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Date:      Fri, 9 Jul 1999 13:09:50 -0500 (CDT)
From:      "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu>
To:        "Pleschutznig, Andreas" <Andreas.Pleschutznig@Schwab.COM>
Cc:        "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Problems with incomplete printing
Message-ID:  <199907091809.NAA65052@beowulf.utmb.edu>
In-Reply-To: <11585F032846CF11867900805FE2A57706D617DE@n1002smx.nt.schwab.com>
References:  <11585F032846CF11867900805FE2A57706D617DE@n1002smx.nt.schwab.com>

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Pleschutznig, Andreas writes:
 > Hi everybody,
 >  
 > I just finished setting up my home gateway system, and server. Then I wanted
 > to declare the system to be a server for everything at home. (Disk, printer,
 > ...) So far disk is working like a charm, but I'm having slight problems
 > with the setup of the printing service.
 >  
 > My printer is a Epson Stylus 500 and I connected it via the parallel port
 > /dev/lpt0. Printing with all goodies, like gs and magicfilter works great as
 > long as the print fits into the buffer ram of the printer. If I try to print
 > a longer printout, I only get a half way printed page. It seems to me that
 > for some reason not everything is printed. 
 >  

What happens when you do the conversion from postscript to Epson
code manually on the command line (for example, converting the
tiger), then sending the resulting Epson code to the raw printer
port?  If this works, then your lpr filter setup is likely at
fault.  If the raw printer port job fails, then your ghostscript
setup is suspect.

I've no experience with magicfilter, I use apsfilter, which I
recommend.  However, not everyone wants to install teTeX just to
prettyprint their man pages.  ;-)

 > Any hints on why my printer (system) doesn't print longer reports?
 >  
 > Thanks
 >  
 > O, BTW I'm running 3.2 stable
 >  
 > 
 > --
 > Andreas Pleschutznig
 > 
 > 
 > 
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