Re: Stoopid printer(LPRng) question.

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On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 04:09, Steven W. Orr wrote:
> I happen to have a Lexmark Optra R+ postscript printer. When I configure 
> the printer using redhat-config-printer and select the Lexmark Optra R+ 
> postscript printer driver, it works ok in postscript but fauils to print 
> plain text files. The text seems to not know how to process newlines and I 
> only get one line of output. I seem to have fixed the problem by selecting 
> instead the generic postscript driver. So what's my question?
> 
> * Is there something that the specific driver should be capable of that 
>   the generic driver is not? Is this a bug?

the ifhp filter should support half a dozen of lexmark printers. What is
your printcap entry for the specific printer?

btw I discovered that redhat-config-printer and LPRng+ifhp are NOT in
love with each other... at last I *removed* r-c-p and now I'm happy
using lpc to control print queues and pico to edit /etc/printcap

Piero



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