Re: Best Vine printer filter for Deskjet 850c?

[David Eduardo Gomez Noguera <davidgn@example.com>]

I dont have a solution, sorry, but please please please, send this very
same message to TurboLinux.
That way, they will at  least know of the problem, and fix it.
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>".
>
> While I'm not at all knowledgeable of postscript or printer drivers,
> that sounds like the filter is taking the postscript file in and
> producing output that the printer can't understand.
>
> None of the Deskjet drivers I've tried (the package is
> vine-printfilters-1.59-3) have helped, and some of them which claim to
> be for color deskjets (number ends in C) don't support color :-P
>
> Has anyone else experienced this/found a workaround for it?  My next
> stop will be to pull the vine-printfilters package and replace it with
> the package from TurboLinux 4.2, which worked fine, but if anybody has
> another fix, I'll try that first.  If not, I'll replace the print
> filter package and report back on the results.
>
> TIA,
>
> Jonathan

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