Paul McDermott writes: > I have a couple of questions about the hp deskjet 890c. First does > magicfiler have a filter for this particular printer (or anyother > filter) Can I get the "printer command language" (pcl 3) code to > make a filter.
I just set up my HP Deskjet 870Cse. Magicfilter did not have a specific filter file for that, but 'dj550c-filter' seems to work well enough. It took me a while to discover that I also need the 'djtools' package to get the djscript program used by 'df550c-filter'. The 'netpbm' and 'libjpeg-*' packages bring in some other filter programs used by that magicfilter configuration. It would be nice if magicfilter did a better job of reporting the cases where the necessary filter programs aren't installed. Perhaps I'm overlooking some useful log file, but all I would see was an 'lpr' command that would run quietly, but no job would be queued and nothing would print. The '--debug' option to magicfilter was useful though. -- Fred Yankowski
