Damm winprinters
 

a few years ago i bought a HP720 Deskjet
(at this time i mainly used windows .. but now im on linux)
i had no problems to install the hp720 driver on other distributions
(other ones than debian offer good installation guides)

anyway i want to get my hp720 printer running
pnm2ppa.sourceforge.net seems to be the worst place to look for howtos...

my lp parport works correctly (i already printed 2 sites... (testsite and a site with stupid rectangulars (i wanted to print text!!))

revnet:/home/revenger# cat RATECARD.TXT | /usr/local/bin/ps.* > /dev/eth0
pnm2ppa[11648]: pnm2ppa: Verbose logging to console
pnm2ppa: pnm2ppa: Verbose logging to console
pnm2ppa[11648]: Starting print job
pnm2ppa: Starting print job
pnm2ppa[11648]: Printing page 1 ()
pnm2ppa: Printing page 1 ()
GNU Ghostscript: Unrecoverable error, exit code 1


/usr/local/bin/if*
#!/bin/bash
gs -sDEVICE=pnm -q sPAPERSIZE=a4 -dNOPAUSE -r600 -sOutputfile=- - | \
pnm2ppa -g -i - -o /dev/lp0

whats up with tim norman ? guess he retired of working on a better pnm2ppa tool...

revnet:/home/revenger# cat file.ps | /usr/local/bin/ps* > /dev/lp0
pnm2ppa[11779]: pnm2ppa: Verbose logging to console
pnm2ppa: pnm2ppa: Verbose logging to console
pnm2ppa[11779]: main(): Could not open PPA output file
pnm2ppa: main(): Could not open PPA output file


if i want to print a .ps file...