From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Geoff Bagley Subject: Debian printing on a hp Laser Jet. Date: Tue, 7 Oct 2003 14:08:06 +0100 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Return-path: List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org I have a HP lj1100 laserjet printer. It works correctly on SuSE 8.0, but on Debian Woody I still haven't sorted out the linefeed/cret correctly. I am getting the famous staircase effect. SuSE 8.0 uses (BSD ?) lpr with a few bits of ghostscript invoked by printcap. Before I try copying extracts from the one into the other, am I going about it the right way, or did I miss something ? I prefer lpr to the other spooling systems because there are more references to it in my various books. However, this printer seems to be too modern for them. I am not sure whether such things as ghostscript and foomatic should be used. I have been reading many accounts of the various available systems for mail spoolers, but the variety available is confusing. I would prefer to use Debian, if I can, because of the synaptic and apt-get for sorting out dependencies. I need to know what things to chose out of the numerous competing options. Regards -- Geoff Bagley - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs