[linux-help] Re: Printer prints color graphics, but not text

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* bbales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2002 Mar 11 16:08 -0600]:
> 
> On Monday 11 March 2002 06:56 am, you wrote:
> > What I'm seeing, Bruce, is that this printer is not set as the default
> > device.  Two ways to work around this, one change the lpr command line
> > as follows:
> >
> > lpr -P bjc6000 somefile.txt
> 
> This doesn't work.  Result is just the same.

Hmmmm.  Then I'm afraid investigation of the printer filter is in order.
The last line of your printcap's bjc2000  stanza, the line that begins
with if, is what needs to be looked at.

What print filter was installed?  I've used magicfilter with good
results for years, unfortunately I don't think it's maintained any more.
Essentially a filter is supposed to intercept the file on its way to the
printer and then call various processing programs to print the given
file.  For example, magicfilter will notice a .ps file and then call
ghostscript to process it through one of ghostscript's drivers.

In another reply you indicated you had installed a couple of drivers
into your ghostscript drivers directory.  I guess the next thing to try
processing a file through ghostscript directly.  The gs man page is a
good resource to at least test things.  The simplest thing to check is
to see if files actually exist at the location the if line points to.

> By stanza, do you mean like another printer description in the printcap file?

Yeah, that's what I was trying to describe.

-Nate >>

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