Date: Tue, 27 Jul 1999 15:50:25 -0500 (CDT) From: "M. L. Dodson" <bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu> To: Guy Middleton <guy@obstruction.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: HP Laserjet 2100 printer with ghostscript Message-ID: <199907272050.PAA94582@beowulf.utmb.edu> In-Reply-To: <19990727163521.A19232@chaos.obstruction.com> References: <19990726232115.A15778@chaos.obstruction.com> <199907271421.JAA91253@beowulf.utmb.edu> <19990727161514.A18990@chaos.obstruction.com> <19990727163521.A19232@chaos.obstruction.com>
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Guy Middleton writes: > 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. > Sounds like ghostscript is not correctly configured if this _always_ happens. If it is sporadic, it may be similar to things I have occasionally observed where the system starts to print garbage halfway through a page. I had thought it was due to a noisy printer cable (although its the best printer cable I've ever used--I've bought some real el-cheapos in my time ;-) Also, since I've put the 2100 on, ghostscript seems to suck up a lot more cpu than I remember it doing in the past (feeding ink jet printers). X becomes quite unusable during the print job (no mouse responsiveness at all, even with gs niced to 15). I thought that might be due to the change to ppbus from the old lpt driver of 2.2.x fame (This is a, not too recent, 3.2-STABLE box). Does anyone else have comments or insights? -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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