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Subject: Re: Local printer access question..
Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2003 13:01:07 -0600
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"Hannu E K Nevalainen (garbage mail)" <garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>
wrote in message
news:<NGBBLLIAMFLGJEOAJCCEMEFLDCAA DOT garbage_collector AT telia DOT com>...
> > From: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com [mailto:cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com]On
Behalf
> > Of Rick Rankin
> --8<--
> > >  Using a single page HTML print from IE6 in "zz.prn"
> > >
> > > These do "work":
> > > 	D:\>print /D:LPT1: zz.prn
> > > 	D:\zz.prn is currently being printed
> > >
> > > 	D:\>print /D:\\P450\DJ720C zz.prn
> > > 	D:\zz.prn is currently being printed
> > >
> > > This one has problems:
> > > 	$ cat /cygdrive/d/zz.prn | lpr -l -PLPT1:
> >
> > What, exactly, do you mean by "has problems"? Any error messages,
> > etc?
> 
>  =-) the text in the next paragraph tells more...  at EXPLANATION
> 
> > Unfortunately, I have no way to test lpt-style devices since
> > I don't have
> > any locally-connected printers, either at home or work.
> 
>  My guess is that you hardly would be able to reproduce it anyway.
> 
>  EXPLANATION --vvv
> > >  The first doc prints. Any following documents causes the printer
to
> > > "hang" - turning it off is enough to be able to print yet
> > > another doc. On one occassion I got something that I've never seen
> before:
> > > Power, "no paper" and "low ink" leds rapidly flashing in that
sequence
> ;-7
> 
> > >
> > > This one "works"
> > > 	$ cat /cygdrive/d/zz.prn | lpr -l
> > > 	$ echo $PRINTER
> > > 	//P450/DJ720C
> > > 	$
> > >
> > > with one exception on all of them; they do not eject the page
> > at the end of
> > > printing. Unless you start another document print...
> >
> > Near as I can tell, this must be a driver problem. It ejects the
> > last page just fine on my Deskjet 990C.
> 
>  I'm not too surprised.
> 
>  Now all I'll have to do is find a replacement for a2ps/enscript that
> creates PCL-stuff instead of postscript. I believe there is some sort
of
> support for deskjets in ghostscript, but that seems to be a long way
to go.
> Other things seem to be available too - judging from some google-hits
> yesterday (djtools in Debian and some sort of hp720-driver in redhat
linux
> for starters).
> 
> /Hannu E K Nevalainen, Mariefred, Sweden, 59?14'N, 17?12'E. >17?C
> average/day now.
> --END OF MESSAGE--

The 720C is not PostScript or PCL.  You are right that there is a Linux
driver for it.  I think what you need is pnm2ppa.

Cary
Cary.Jamison PowerQuest.com

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