options in test page work, but not with lpr

[Helge Blischke]

Andy Paul wrote:

> Johannes Meixner wrote:
>>
>> Hello,
>>
>> On Jul 13 03:47 Andy Paul wrote (excerpt):
>> > ... Lexmark T652 with a 5-Bin-Mailbox attachted ...
>>
>> You mean that the testpage prints on "Bin1"..."Bin5" as requested
>> but your "sometest.ps" does not?
> 
> Thats right.
> 
>> Is your "sometest.ps" file plain printer independent PostScript or does
>> it perhaps contain printer specific stuff like "setpagedevice" commands?
>> Perhaps your "sometest.ps" file contains printer specific PostScript
>> which re-sets the PostScript snippet from the PPD file..
> 
> its a very clean postscript file without any devicespecific commands.
> Something like:
> 
> %!PS-Adobe-2.0
> /Helvetica findfont 10 scalefont setfont
> 10 40 moveto (Hello World) show
> showpage
> 
>> Try out if PostScript made by "a2ps" works, e.g. via:
>>    echo Hello | a2ps -1 -o- | lp -d mailb1
> 
> Thats surprisingly works. So it must be a problem with my .ps-files.
> Maybe there has to be more PS-stuff in the header to work correctly.
> 
>>    lpadmin -p testy -v file:/tmp/testy.out -P /path/to/file.ppd -E
>>  ...
>> Then print the test page via the testy queue...
> 
> This is what I'm looking for (I don't know why I havn't seen this). Now
> I'm going to study and compare the output. I'm going to report the result.
> So stay tuned, if you want to hear. Greetings
> Andy

Please post (an URL to) one of "your" PS files that does not work as 
expected.

Helge