hp 940C wants a2ps-letter

[Ceri Davies]

On Wed, Apr 09, 2003 at 08:52:19PM -0400, Michael Sharp wrote:
> I have a HP Deskjet 940C and I have installed apsfilter, ghostscript-gnu
> and all dependants. I ran the SETUP to apsfilter and chose the hpijs 940C
> driver, restarted lpd and all went fine. However, I did notice on the
> apsfilter install a2ps failed because its broken, but I recompiled without
> it.
> 
> When I try to print a simple ASCII file, the apsfilter logs say it cant
> fine a2ps.
> 
> Is there someone else out there with a HP Deskjet 940C that might suggest
> an alternative printcap and apsfilterrc setting to get this printer
> working?

Not really an answer to your questions, but I used to use cups with my
hp940c; worked just great out of the box.

Ceri
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