Anyone uses HP DeskJet 500?

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From: Dimitri Maziuk
Date: Sun, 31 Mar 1996 00:00

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Hi,
couple of days ago a friend of mine asked me to help
getting his HP DJ 500 to print.  I came over, did ls>/dev/lp1,
got a staircase effect. Then I tried lpr, just to see what happens:
it printed one line and then started spitting out plain paper.
I dequeued the job, turned it off, wrote a filter to set it to 
translate LF into CR+LF (and later found the same script in the HOWTO :)
and everything worked fine.
Couple of hours later the guy rings me saying that it's spitting
plain sheets of paper out again.  He didn't change anything, only
rebooted the machine.
The guy is running Slackware 2.3.  Does anyone know about any bugs in
lpd/lpr/Slackware itself that could be responsible?  Or anything 
special about the printer?

Thanks in advance.
Dimitri

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