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I was wondering if anyone out there had a canon BJ-200 printing through
Linux.  I am having a bit of trouble setting the printcap settings correctly.
If anyone could lend some valuable insight as to how this can be accomplished,
it would be wonderful!  thanks in advance!

: I was wondering if anyone out there had a canon BJ-200 printing through
: Linux.  I am having a bit of trouble setting the printcap settings correctly.
: If anyone could lend some valuable insight as to how this can be accomplished,
: it would be wonderful!  thanks in advance!

To elaborate a bit more on my problem, I have a working printcap but the problem is that I have what is called the 'staircase effect' when printing.  I created a filter to try to end this problem but to no avail.. if anyone clould help, It would be appreciated...  Private replies are encouraged!  Thanks!!!

-->   : I was wondering if anyone out there had a canon BJ-200 printing through
-->   : Linux.  I am having a bit of trouble setting the printcap settings correctly.
-->   : If anyone could lend some valuable insight as to how this can be accomplished,
-->   : it would be wonderful!  thanks in advance!
-->   To elaborate a bit more on my problem, I have a working printcap but the problem is that I have what is called the 'staircase effect' when printing.  I created a filter to try to end this problem but to no avail.. if anyone clould help, It would be appreciated...  Private replies are encouraged!  Thanks!!!

Here are my settings (btw: without staircase-effect. I always print
with Postscript, even plain ASCII-files.

Quote:> cat /etc/printcap

#
# Copyright (c) 1983 Regents of the University of California.
# All rights reserved.
#
# Redistribution and use in source and binary forms are permitted
# provided that this notice is preserved and that due credit is given
# to the University of California at Berkeley. The name of the University
# may not be used to endorse or promote products derived from this
# software without specific prior written permission. This software
# is provided ``as is'' without express or implied warranty.
#

#
#
# Generic printer:
# Send standard to /dev/null
lp:lp=/dev/null:sd=/usr/spool/lp1:mx#0:sh
#
# Raw printing on bj200
raw:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/usr/spool/bj200/raw:mx#0:sh
#
# Postscript printing on bj200
ps|Postscript|PostScript|postscript:\
        :lp=/dev/lp1:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/bj200/ps:\
        :if=/usr/spool/bj200/ps/if:\
        :mx#0:sh

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Quote:> cat /usr/spool/bj200/ps/if

#!/bin/sh
#
# Line printer input filter for postscript
#

/usr/bin/gs -q \
        -dSAFER \
        -dNOPAUSE \
        -sDEVICE=bj200 \
        -sPAPERSIZE=a4 \
        -sOutputFile=- \
        -

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
&& Note the last single minus! It took me several hours to figure out,
&& that this tells gs to read from stdin
&&
&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Quote:> gs -v

Ghostscript version 2.6.1 (5/28/93)
Copyright (C) 1990-1993 Aladdin Enterprises, Menlo Park, CA.

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

DIP-Switches at the printer:
(Please apologize the "names" of the switches. I only have a german
manual and I had to guess, what the awful german notions might be in
original english)

1:      paper size      on(A4)
2:      text scale      off
3:      <none>
4:      page length     on
5:      Character set   on

6:      International   on    ) Just noticed, this is ITALIAN setting,
7:        -"-              on    ) well, seems as if settings are irrelevant
8:        -"-              off   ) for postscript printing

9:      Character Set   on    ) Should be irrelevant as Postscript is
10:       -"-              off   ) printed in graphics mode
11:       -"-              off

12:     Mode            off   ) This one is important, selects bj-10 mode!!!!

&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&

Hope, that helps.

Good luck
                jue
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I have a bje-200ex and use the BJF filter which I got off of sunsite.
Works great, in fact, it runs faster than the slug known as print manager
under windose....  I would suggest you look into it.

hope that helps.

rich