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From: Manuel Camacho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Sunday, November 07, 1999 3:55 PM
Subject: Printing problems with RH 6.0.
>
> Dear friends:
>
> I have a HP laserjet series II that I just connected to my RH 6.0 box.
Kernel
> has not been modified or recompiled (just as out from the box). I have set
the
> input filter as laserJet IId/IIp/III* with TIFF compression, which is
described
> as "Driver for the Laserjet II series printer". Printing options were set
as
> follows: -Send EOF after job to eject page.
> -Fix stair stepping text.
> -Fast text printing (non-PS printers only).
> -Suppress Headers.
>
Eh, shouldn't you be using the HP II driver not the IID.
I believe that there is a difference in the PCL implementation between the
II and the IId/IIP/III printers.
Also, you aren't by any chance driving the printer via the SERIAL port?
>
> Problem is that when I try printing postscript to my printer, it prints
like
> washed to the left side. It looks just like a code bar sticker. Some text
can
> be read from this printout, but letters got cut as in slices and each
slice
> slides a little bit from the one under and over it.
>
> Here is what I have done so far:
>
> *I used lptest | lpr to test the hardware. Worked fine.
>
> *I issued the command ls -a > lpr. Printing quality is fine, but I get an
> output as follows:
>
> 0m01;34m.0m
> 01;34m..0m
> 0m.Beirute.index0m
> 0m.C++.index0m
> 0m.VIM.index0m
>
These look like PCL positioning codes. The printer is either "swallowing"
the Escape sequences at the beginning of each line (you are not using it in
"serial" mode are you?) which may happen because 1) the printer is in serial
mode, but handshaking is not occuring properly, 2) the printer is set to
"dump" the pcl codes instead of acting on them.
The latter is controlled by a printer setting, you may need to check the
printer via the front panel menu and diagnostic page to see if the latter is
the case...
> [...]
>
> And all following files print with a 0m just before the filename and a 0m
just
> after it. Some files have a different code rather than 0m, such as
> 01;34m.xauth0m. I then made the printout to a file. Using "less" to look
at the
> file, I get the same weird codes. Using "more" to look at the files, I see
the
> output I want, just the plain filenames with no codes.
>
Yeap these are "swallowed" escape sequences...
> *I tried using the HP LaserJet filter instead than the HP LaserJet IId/..
, and
> ASCII printed fine, kmail printout was fine, and PS printed, BUT, after
the 1/3
> of the PS test page was printed, page was ejected, and I got an "ERROR"
message
> in the printer display. I pushed the "continue" button, and the next 1/3
of the
> page was printed, and page was ejected again, and got another "ERROR"
message
> appeared. After pressing the "continue" button once more, the last third
of the
> page was printed. Then I got PS with an excellent print quality, but 1/3rd
of
> the printout on a different page.
>
The regular HP LaserJet only had 256 or 512K memory. I believe the II had
only 2 megs or less out of the box...
Since the Ghostscript interpreter sends the entire page as a raster image,
you really need more ram for the printer to print this way...
If Ghostscript is outputting in PCL mode however you can normally get by
with LESS ram, but you need those escape codes to work properly.
> *I tried the printer with a Win98 box, and Word documents and graphs
printed
> fine.
>
> *I tried printing a PS page from Ghostview within Linux, and printing
locked.
>
>
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