Apsfilter setup test page does nothing ...

[Kiffin Gish]

On Sun, 2005-10-02 at 00:06 +0100, dgmm wrote:
> On Saturday 01 October 2005 17:02, Kiffin Gish wrote:
> > I am trying to get my HP Deskjet 720C working via the parallel port lpt0.
> >
> > After running through the apsfilter setup program and configuring all
> > the required stuff, I choose T) Print a test page, but nothing happens,
> > namely:
> >
> > Ok to print testpage? [y/n] y
> >
> > Creating test page...
> >
> > real    0m5.208s
> > user    0m1.358s
> > sys     0m0.336s
> >
> > Printing test page...
> > -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  104370928 Oct  1 17:44
> > /tmp/apsfilter1140/test_page.aps
> >
> > ...and then nothing.
> >
> > the tmp-file is created but what now?
> >
> > lpd is running:
> >
> > kiffin at laptop$ ps -aux | grep lpd
> > root     396  0.0  0.2  1364   940  ??  Is    5:13PM   0:00.01
> > /usr/sbin/lpd
> >
> > Any ideas?
> 
> Is there a driver for the 720C now?  last time I looked it wasn't supported 
> (quite some time ago now) mainly due to being a "winprinter" ie no inbuilt 
> inteligence.
> 

Yes there is and it is called ppa/720 according to the install script.

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Kiffin Gish
Gouda, The Netherlands