Re: Best Vine printer filter for Deskjet 850c?

[Selva Nair <selva@example.com>]

On Sat, 15 Jul 2000, Jonathan Q wrote:

>  Since installing TurboLinux 6-J, I have had problems printing anything
>  but normal text on my Deskjet 850C, which has always worked fine under
>  Linux before.  TurboLinux now has the Vine print filters (the first
>  time, I believe), so this seems to be a potential source of the
>  trouble.
>  
>  When trying to print anything else (printing directly from netscape or
>  doing lpr netscape.ps, for example), the printer activity light blinks
>  for a few seconds, the the problem light blinks amber.  Hitting the
>  online/offline button then causes it print one line which says 
>  "-r must be followed by <res> or <xres>x<yres>".
>  

May be it helps to know that that message looks like spewed out by 
gs (ghsotscript), possibly confused by some error in the argument to -r
(resolution) option. Dont know anything about these Vine filters,
but guess it is a wrapper that calls gs with appropriate
arguments. 

Selva