Just a little to complete the task...


Subject: Just a little to complete the task...
From: TheBong Pipe (thevelvet@hotmail.com)
Date: Wed Mar 15 2000 - 09:21:33 EST


It's OK. The papd is working, the ppd is seen, papd and lpd spool correctly,
but...

I am using Freehand in the mac boxes to print wery large works on this
HP3500CP plotter. After setting up (again) the Linux box I tried some files.
The first plot was made only of various coloured text of about 90x40
centimeters. It worked ok, and the spool job was about 15Mb large. Then I
tried a 90x100 job with coloured images (it came up at about 400Mb). After
40mins the client sended the job to the server, then the plotter started
printing.but. No images were printed, but only the Freehand background.

Could it be a Postscript problem? HP3500CP is reported to be a level 3
postscript plotter, and the Macs (when I connect them directly they work)
probably print using this level.

I saw Aladdin Ghostscript 6.0 is out: is it worth to give it a try?

Another solution crossed my mind: CUPS. I saw it has got dirvers for the
HP3500. Is it compatible with netatalk?

Thanks alot again
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