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Date:      Tue, 27 Jul 1999 16:35:22 -0400
From:      Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com>
To:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HP Laserjet 2100 printer with ghostscript
Message-ID:  <19990727163521.A19232@chaos.obstruction.com>
In-Reply-To: <19990727161514.A18990@chaos.obstruction.com>; from Guy Middleton on Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:15:14PM -0400
References:  <19990726232115.A15778@chaos.obstruction.com> <199907271421.JAA91253@beowulf.utmb.edu> <19990727161514.A18990@chaos.obstruction.com>

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On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 04:15:14PM -0400, Guy Middleton wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 1999 at 10:21:19AM -0400, M. L. Dodson wrote:
> > Guy Middleton writes:
> >  > Does anybody have an HP Laserjet 2100 printer working with ghostscript
> >  > (I'm using version 5.50, compiled in ports directory)?  The margins appear
> >  > to be wrong, using the "ljet4" device.
> >  > 
> >  > If not, does anybody know of a ghostscript mailing list?  I
> >  > could not find mention of
> >  > one on any of the GS web pages.
> >  > 
> > 
> > I've got one going using ljet4.  No apparent problems.  How are
> > you diagnosing margin problems?  Maybe I have a problem, but am
> > clueless.
> 
> Typically I use mpage to generate a PS file, then pipe it through gs.  mpage
> draws boxes around text pages in 4-up format, and the line at the top of the
> page is missing.

Also, it doesn't make it through a whole PS document.  Halfway through, the printer
prints this alone on a page:


PCL XL error

	Subsystem:	KERNEL

	Error:		IllegalTag

	Operator:	0x25

	Position:	59456


and then stops.


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