[PLUG] Help !!

Dirk & Karen hapibeli at save-net.com
Wed Apr 17 05:53:14 UTC 2002


On Wednesday 17 April 2002 09:17 am, you wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Apr 2002, Dirk & Karen wrote:
> > My Canon BJC 4000 printer has gone insane! It won't stop printing ASCII
> > characters! It using reams of paper and gallons of ink. I feel like the
> > Mad Sci whose lost control of his monster. I'm sure I created it with
> > some innocent print order, but what order I don't know. No GUI will stop
> > its mad progression to chaos. No removal of Job, no removal of printer,
> > no understanding by befuddled Linuxite. Please send help as disaster
> > looms.
>
> Dirk,
>
>   It's not gone bonkers, but printing what it is being fed: PostScript.
>
>   Apparently gs has stopped converting the postscript into whatever
> language the Canon recognizes.
>
>   What is your printing system (lp, lpr, lpRNG, CUPS, etc.) and what
> application are you using to feed the printer?
>
> Rich

Thanks Matt and Paul.

Yes Rich,
> That's what I thought was happening, but after trying to reconfigure the 
printer with printtool ,  I  change nothing. I seem have both lpr and cups 
ready to go with cups running at present.

It is Postscript , Properties being; 
lpr ${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME:+'-P'}${MOZ_PRINTER_NAME}
How do I change this?
Dirk




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