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In article <315E483A.5882@curtin.edu.au>, emaziuk@curtin.edu.au says...
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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

Why not try using the utility a2psfilter it should be available at sunsite.unc.edu or at 
ftp.dstc.edu.au. I've got a HP400 and a2psfilter works like a dream.

Pete
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