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[Anthony.Schlemmer@xxxxxxx (Anthony Schlemmer)]

Tony Schlemmer wrote:

> HihO...
> 
> > % [ LastPage... ] %
> >
> > My printer is an HP 4P that does PCL only. I set it up using YaST and it
> > works fine other than the extra page printing problem. I setup the Win95
> > boxes to use HP 4L/M Postscript. I didn't see a generic HP 4 Postscript
> > driver available in Win95 but the 4L was a fairly low-end model like my
> > 4P. The 4P is 600x600dpi while the 4L is 300x300 dpi I believe.
> 
> i had the same using a hp postscript driver in win95 with the lp-queue
> 
> but you can avoid it, when you install a windows-driver exactly for your
> printer and print directly to the raw-queue on your linux box- then
> ghostscript won´t do anything- the file will go directly to the printer...
> 
> if you have suse 5.2 there is a problem with the raw-device, so you will
> first only get garbage:
> 
> in /var/lib/apsfilter/filter/data
> and /var/lib/apsfilter/filter/raw
>  change the line:
> 
> eval $DECOMPRESS $PRINT_PS
> 
> to:
> 
>  $DECOMPRESS cat -
> 
> then you can use the win95 driver...
> 
> hope it helps...

That did the trick and so I can now use the Win95 driver for the HP 4P
with the "raw" printer on my SuSE host. I still had some problems with
that extra page being included after each print job. It no longer had
any garbage/postscript stuff on it but what a waste of paper. I finally
tracked the problem down to the "/etc/apsfilterrc.ljet4" file. I had to
uncomment out the following line:

PRINT_RAW_SUPPRESS_FORMFEED="yes"

Tony


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