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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT acepia.net.au>]

HI Steven,

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003 11:17:38 +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> Ron Clarke wrote:
>> I have installed Abiword.  It looks very impressive.   But, of
>> course, it wouldn't print to my HP 600 Deskjet.

> Is it a postscript printer?

    No.  It speaks PCL only.

>  If not, you will need to install a
> filter to convert to whatever it is your printer understands.
> If your printer does postscript, then you shouldn't need
> anything else.  If it doesn't do ps, you will probably need
> ghostscript (or some other ps-to-whatever utility).  You'll
> find the ghostscript package in /slakware/ap1.  You might
> also need the gsfonts package (in the same directory).

   I have gotten both of these and installed them. Ghostscript seems to
be functional because I have got XPDF going without any problem under
icewm.

> Your first step is to get lpd working (be prepared to do
> a bit of climbing on the learning curve).  Getting your
> printer port to work, requires three insmods:
> -----------------
> insmod parport
> insmod parport_pc
> insmod lp
> -----------------
> Then you start the printer daemon:  lpd

   All done without complaint.

> But before you do any of that, you will need to install the
> lpr package (don't worry about the apsfiler for the moment)
> and edit your /etc/printcap

   I have left /etc/printcap as is for the moment, set on default. There
is only a small choice, none of which is related to an HP DeskJet 600.
And      lpr foo.txt   elicits no response from anything.
   
   Looks like Ghostscript is going to have to translate. Where do I look
for help on this - the Linux-HOWTO seems more concerned with PDQ than
with LPR.

Regards,
        Ron


Ron Clarke
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