Re: Problem with printing on change of printer

Rafał Cygnarowski
2008-01-24T10:06:32Z

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Dnia czwartek, 24 stycznia 2008, Victor Warner napisał:
> I am use dosemu 1.4 under Xandros Professional 4.0 Desktop.
>
> Until recently I have been using a HP LaserJet printer and have had no
> difficulty printing from DOS programs under Dosemu to the printer.
>
> The .dosemurc~ (located in home directory) reads:
>
> $_hdimage = "/disks/D/dos"
> $_printer_command = "lpr -l"
> $_printer = "HPLJ3055"
> $_layout="uk"
> $_X_keycode=(off)
> $_X_font="vga12x30"
> $_hogthreshold="1"
> $_xms="16834"
> $_xms="16834"
> $_X_title="Dosemu (as user)"
>
>
> I have now changed to a Lexmark C530dn (which I understand is a pcl and
> postscript printer). I changed in the .dosemurc~ file only the $_printer =
> "HPLJ3055" line to $_printer = "lexmarkc530dn" (ie the name I called the
> printer in Linux), and used the right printer driver in the dos programs
> (WordPerfect 5.1/6.2) but nothing has printed.
>
> I ran dosemu from console and on printing the following message was
> printed:
>
> "lpr: error - unable to print file:
> client-error-document-format-not-supported"

I suppose you use cups, do you? If yes check your cups logs for details.
There's probably some filter missing. If cups logs are not good enough set
log level to debug in your cupsd.conf and try again.

Regards,
--
Rafał Cygnarowski
rafi@pers.pl

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