[ale] stairsteps

Jim Rundquist jrundquist at yogi.mar.lmco.com
Sun Jun 7 08:30:52 EDT 1998


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Hello,

<P>I am a novice Linux user for whom printing under Linux has always been
a mystery.
<BR>Fortunately for me, and I suspect for thousands like me, there are
people out there who work hard
<BR>to solve problems and extend the usefulness of Linux and share their
solutions with the rest of us.
<BR>I have an HP-500C printer and eliminated the stair stepping problem
with the following software.

<P>http://www.cc.gatech.edu/ftp/Linux/system/printing/aps-491.tgz

<P>Good luck!  I hope this helps.
<BR> 

<P>William Mahavier wrote:
<BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE>>       ahahahahahaha,
this is so funny because I just had this same problem
<BR>>whith a name dot matrix printer.  in thw howto's it tells you
<BR>>that if you get those staircased lines you need to use a filter and
its gunana
<BR>>say no daemon present but it will still print to it.  The lpr
thing on why it
<BR>>might not be working may have something to do with the permissions. 
Try setting
<BR>>/dev/lpr1 <-- /dev/lp1 to chmod 0666 /dev/lp1 or whatever you
use and that
<BR>>might clear up the problem.

<P>This is not entended as a flame. Just an observation. I had the same
<BR>stairstep problem and never solved it. I have been a unix/linus user
<BR>for 15 years. I had slackware umsdos on my notebook. X-windows and
<BR>latex and printing worked fine. Ale suggested I should partition my
<BR>disc. I did that on my aptiva and installed slackware. I never got
<BR>x-window to work, I can print only to my postcript printer with
<BR>dvips, and x-windows does not work. I posted to ale and got little
<BR>help. Except to suggest I install redhat. I bought a redhat boxed
<BR>set with manual and disc. Redhat says it supports my scsi card but
<BR>it did not. After much effort I tried an ftp install using a borrowed
<BR>ethernet card. I got redhat installed on my old (umsdos) notebook.
<BR>Now x-windows does not work. I cannot mount my scsi.cdrom or my syquest.
<BR>I do not know if I can use either of my printers or not.

<P>I posted asking if someone could tell me how much space was needed
<BR>for a minimum install of redhat. I got no response. My first install
<BR>failed because it ran out of space. The redhat manual said one needed
<BR>50 megs. I alloted 200 megs. My second install was only the *'ed
<BR>packages, latex and xwindows. It took all but about 5 megs. I have
<BR>read most of the LDP, the redhat.faq and the redhat manual. RTFM
<BR>does not help beginners.

<P>Ale seems to becoming more a hackers group. I am sorry to say
<BR>that I will probably try to download latex for windows95 and use that.
<BR>I regret that windows is winning but it is your problem.

<P>Surely some of you gurus know how to solve the stairstep problem and
<BR>how much space redhat takes. Please do not recommend a filter you have
<BR>not tried.</BLOCKQUOTE>
 
<PRE>-- 
Jim Rundquist
jrundquist at fs1.mar.lmco.com

Eagles may soar, but weasels don't get sucked into jet engines</PRE>
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