martin f krafft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
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> apsfilter. is there another method, maybe one with less weight?
Well, the "ifhp" package contains the "standard" LPRng input filter,
assuming you're using LPRng.
If you want a dumb filter (one that doesn't make any effort to, say,
print PostScript to non-PostScript printers or do the right thing with
DVI files sent directly to the printer), "lpf" is included in the
"lprng" package, and the LPRng-HOWTO (included in the "lprng-doc"
package) mentions using it:
4.10.3. The Jaggies - LF to CR-LF Conversion With lpf
Let me add that, in the past, I've had nothing but trouble using HP's
JetDirect... erm... directly. They've probably improved things since
I last had to deal with it, but their old network stack couldn't
handle more than one connection at once so, if a job was printing, the
printer would just refuse new connections until it completed;
sometimes jobs would simply mysteriously get lost; the printer would
just get wedged as machines trying to print jobs fought for its
attention; and on and on.
The solution was (and is) to designate one machine as the spooler for
that printer and have all the other machines send the jobs through it.
This is straightforward to set up using LPRng, and it has the added
bonus that you can install and configure all sorts of fancy printer
filtering stuff on just the one, spooling, machine and have all the
clients take instant advantage of it. (Samba can be used to provide
shared printer service for any Windows clients that are lounging
around, too.) This is well worth setting up, in my opinion.
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Kevin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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