Subject: [S.u.S.E. Linux] HP 600C Printer and APSFILTER

If you have or are familiar with the HP 600C printer you will know that the

one time has either or a black cartridge or a color cartridge but not both at

So my first question is:

1. Should I have a separate color printer definition and a separate mono

in my APSFILTER file(s)? It seems that the HP 550/560 file is closest to the

On Feb 23, 10:09pm, adcarlso@visinet.ca wrote: printer at any the same time. printer definition 600. I am not completely familar with your printer, but does the 550/560 series come in both mono and color types? If it does, it would be my guess that you would need two printer deffinitions.

The second question:

2. I have tried printing with cat filename > /dev/lp1

and the result is the "staircase" effect? Is there a way to get around this when using this method or must lpr be used?

These leads to the third question:

3. When I print a generic text file using lpr the result is a landscape

I don't think so, that is part of what the print filter does. printout using a very

small font as opposed to the expected portrait printout using the default font of the printer. Should this be? Or do I have something set improperly, or not set?

Check out /etc/apsfilterrc. There is a section in that file where you can modify this.

By the way, these really are fine-tuning questions...For the most part in other software my printer works fine. I can print color pages using xv (and gimp). Using Ghostview I can print PDF and PS files. I am just looking for answers on the things that should work properly but don't (like a simple text file).

Thanks,

Arlen Carlson

Hope that this helps. Cheers, Frank

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