IBM Proprinter (dot-matrix) on CUPS
Roman Huber
kea13 at gmx.net
Tue Jun 8 08:31:28 PDT 2004
Dear 'all',
I have the hardest time getting a trusty old (antediluvian :)
ProPrinter X24 to work with CUPS.
All it prints is binary garbage ...
Whereas I hoped that the printer might have a problem or two,
hooked up to a Windows machine it prints fine.
So, I guess there's something fishy going on with my setup
which is as follows:
OS: Slackware Linux 9.1
CUPS: 1.1.21rc1
ESPGS: 7.07.1
Printer Setup:
DeviceURI: parallel:/dev/lp0
PPD: Generic-IBM-Compatible_Dot_Matrix_Printer-ibmpro.ppd
(as available through linuxprinting.org)
Printing is done through foomatic-rip.
Initially I didn't get any output (not even garbage) - this
was due to "gs" exiting abnormally for not finding the fonts.
A "gs -?" revealed a font search path of
"/usr/local/share/ghostscript/fonts" whereas the fonts reside
in "/usr/share/ghostscript/fonts". Creating a symlink in
"/usr/local/share/ghostscript" to point to the latter directory
fixed at least the abnormal exit ...
Could this be the root of the evil I'm experiencing ?
Any hints, tips, RTFM's please ?
Thanks in advance,
Roman
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