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Date: Tue, 17 Apr 2001 07:37:50 -0500 (CDT)
From: Jesse Pollard <pollard@tomcat.admin.navo.hpc.mil>
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Subject: Re: Is printing broke on sparc ?
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"Mr. James W. Laferriere" <babydr@baby-dragons.com>:
[snip]
> 	.. ie:  cat /etc/printcap > /dev/lp0    (or /dev/par0)
> 	gets me :
> 
> /c#eodiecnyotai rhernili s to rpaemn
>                                     s eehpo o-.ROLPR0 roif{\=sl:x
>                                                                  	/p:ao/lr
> 	which is where it rolls off the paper .
> 	printer is a DECLaser 2200  .  I have the PostScript option card
> 	for it , but when it is installed -notthing- gets output so I
> 	tried the above experiment without it installed .  With the option
> 	installed the display shows 'PS Waiting' Then shortly 'PS
> 	Processing' then 'PS Ready' .  This happens whether I cat .ps
> 	files or not .  I beleive that something is garbling the data
> 	being sent .

I have the 5100 printer - It is expecting PCL when the PS option is not
set. With it set, it only prints postscript.

What I did was to pass the data through enscript/nenscript to convert
to postscript. Then I had no problems at all.

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Jesse I Pollard, II
Email: pollard@navo.hpc.mil

Any opinions expressed are solely my own.
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