From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 10 12:03:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id MAA20106 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:03:03 -0700 (PDT) Received: from beowulf.utmb.edu (beowulf.utmb.edu [129.109.59.83]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id MAA20101 for ; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 12:02:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from bdodson@localhost) by beowulf.utmb.edu (8.8.6/8.8.6) id OAA03855; Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:02:27 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 10 Sep 1997 14:02:27 -0500 (CDT) Message-Id: <199709101902.OAA03855@beowulf.utmb.edu> From: "M. L. Dodson" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: Jeff Roberts Cc: "M. L. Dodson" , FreeBSD Questions Discussion List Subject: Re: FBSD: HP Desk Jet, printing PS? In-Reply-To: References: <199709101545.KAA01842@beowulf.utmb.edu> X-Mailer: VM 6.22 under 19.15p7 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Jeff Roberts writes: > On Wed, 10 Sep 1997, M. L. Dodson wrote: > > > Hmmmm.... The only problems I have ever had with apsfilter (of > > recent vintage, anyway) had to do with interfacing it to Win95 > > boxes via samba. I use a Deskjet 540 at home with no difficulty > > (except for losing the last 0.25" of paper on the page). Did the > > apsfilter set the correct option to be the default printer? > > Well ... I guess it looks okay. I'm not really knowledgable about this. > I ran test jobs with > > lpr -Pcdeskjet-letter-[insert type here]-[insert subtype here] filename > > but all it ever printed was > > Unrecoverable error: rangecheck in .setdevice > Operand stack: --nostringval-- > > (not formatted that way,though) and then ejected the sheet. > > Ahhhh.... That's from ghostscript. Why? I haven't a clue. Anyone got any ideas? > > > What version of ghostscript are you using? > > 4.0 or later is desirable for the fonts, if for no other reason. > > GNU 2.whatever, Aladdin 4.03 (I think). However, it won't print anything: > ASCII, PS, you name it. > Do you have X? Will it display the tiger in X? If so, it should be at least somewhat OK, although this has nothing to do with the hardcopy devices. > > Does the deskjet 320 emulate a cdeskjet pretty well? > > Well, that was what the SETUP script advised. The DJ 320 is a color Desk > Jet. Is there a better option? > > If the deskjet 320 really emulates a color deskjet (which was originally a designation for a deskjet 500 something or other, I think, but I'm not positive about that), then that should work OK. My suggestion is to focus on ghostscript and its configured devices in your debugging, though. > Thanks again. > > Jeff > > -- M. L. Dodson bdodson@scms.utmb.edu 409-772-2178 FAX: 409-772-1790