On Thu, 24 Dec 1998, Jason Dawe wrote: > I have been trying to get my dot-matrix Panasonic KX-P1123 printer to > work all night. After re-compiling the Kernel again, my printer prints > regular ASCII text fine. Through Netscape, I just get a bunch of > garbage. (Well, real words but they don't make sense). > > After reading numerous HOW-TO's I discovered I need to use a program > called Ghostscript to emulate Postscript. I have downloaded the unix > version of postscript. (I guess I needed the unix one, the only other > ones were the mac and ms-dos/win versions) > > I extracted ghostscript-5.50.tar in /usr/src/gs5.50 > Now I have loads of C-source code and stuff. The HTM documentation goes > all over the place talking about makefiles and stuff. I'm relatively new > at Linux, so that lost me. I tried "make" "make install" "gcc gs.c -o > gs" none of it helped. > > I'm stuck. What should I do now?
Assuming that you have installed Debian Linux (a reasonable assumption considering the list where you posted your question): 1. Delete all the stuff you just installed. 2. Run dselect and install the Debian gs-aladdin, gs-fonts and magicfilter packages. 3. As I recall, the KP-1123 will emulate an Epson LQ printer, so try the epsonlq selection in magicfilter. Bob ---- Bob Nielsen Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tucson, AZ AMPRnet: [EMAIL PROTECTED] DM42nh http://www.primenet.com/~nielsen
