[Foomatic] Lexmark E232

Till Kamppeter till.kamppeter at gmx.net
Thu Oct 14 07:40:20 PDT 2004


Can you try the following GhostScript command lines

cat ~micha/5-Question.ps | gs -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE 
-sDEVICE=pxlmono -sOutputFile='| cat >&3' /dev/fd/0 3>&1 1>&2 | cat > 
/dev/lp0

cat ~micha/5-Question.ps | gs -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE 
-sDEVICE=pxlmono -sOutputFile=- /dev/fd/0 | cat > /dev/lp0

cat ~micha/5-Question.ps | gs -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE 
-sDEVICE=pxlmono -sOutputFile='| cat >&3' - 3>&1 1>&2 | cat > /dev/lp0

cat ~micha/5-Question.ps | gs -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE 
-sDEVICE=pxlmono -sOutputFile='| cat > /dev/fd/3' - 3>&1 1>&2 | cat > 
/dev/lp0

cat ~micha/5-Question.ps | gs -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE 
-sDEVICE=pxlmono -sOutputFile='| cat > /dev/fd/3' /dev/fd/0 3>&1 1>&2 | 
cat > /dev/lp0

Which versions work, which not? Thanks.

    Till


--------------------Original message------------------

I am running Debian Woody with cups. I downloaded the PPD for a Generic 
PCL 6
Printer and pxlmono on linuxprinting.org
I installed foomatic-rip and foomatic-pswrapper as requested by the
documentation on linuxprinting.org

Problem: When trying to print something the jobs succeded but nothing was
printed on the printer.

Workaround: Uninstall foomatic-pswrapper

More Details: From the cups error_log file I copied these lines:

D [21/Sep/2004:16:46:10 +0200] foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH'
'-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-sDEVICE=pxlmono' '-r600x600' '-sOutputFile=|
cat >&3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2
D [21/Sep/2004:16:46:10 +0200] GNU Ghostscript 6.53 (2002-02-13)
D [21/Sep/2004:16:46:10 +0200] Copyright (C) 2002 artofcode LLC, 
Benicia, CA.
All rights reserved.
D [21/Sep/2004:16:46:10 +0200] This software comes with NO WARRANTY: see the
file COPYING for details.
D [21/Sep/2004:16:46:10 +0200] **** Unable to open the initial device,
quitting.

But I was able to print directly with gs:
obelix:~# gs -dBATCH -dPARANOIDSAFER -dNOPAUSE -sDEVICE=pxlmono
-sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 ~micha/5-Question.ps


Hope this helps, Micha



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