Printer trouble

1997-03-22 Thread barknech
I am trying to set up a NEC Silentwriter S60P-Printer for use under Debian 1.2. It is a Postscript-Printer, but I don't have any documentation. (Found the device in a factory's trash...) It works great with Win95, but I am not able to print anything with Linux. 'lpr' does nothing, and I cann

lp-device trouble

1997-04-23 Thread barknech
I have a serious problem with my printer: it does not print. If I try to print anything (via "cat" as root, or with "lpr"), the device seems to receive data, because its display says so ("PROCESSING...WAITING..." and then "READY"). But it still does not print. My Debian is 1.2 of the InfoMagic D

lp-device trouble again

1997-04-23 Thread barknech
Thank you all for trying to answer my question. I think I have forgotten to say, that I am indeed "cat"-ing a postsript-file (not raw text or anything else, but I admit that I tried...) to the printer, but it does not work. Under DOS the command "copy junk.ps lpt1" prints every postscript-file wit