[techtalk] Printer stairstepping

[moebius at ip-solutions.net]

Hey Jen,
  Just went in and studied the printter configs for my work. We are using
RH6.1 w/lpd for printing. I'm hoping that Suse uses lpd as well but I'm
not sure. Any how, in /var/spool/lpd/lp(x) edit the textonly.cfg and make
sure that there is a line that reads:
CRLFTRANS=1
This apparently correctly translates the Carraige return/Line Feeds. If
Suse doesn't use the same layout you would still be looking for the
printer config files (ie-> printer.cfg) in /var/spool/lpd/lp(x).
Let me know if this works or not and I can check out a few other options.
This was just a 5min scan.
HTH,

Harry Hoffman
Product Systems Specialist
Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
206.634.3082 x. 270

On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Jen Tippens wrote:

> That's the problem.  He is running SuSe and it doesn't work.  Mine is just fine. I'm supposed to fix his...
> Thanks,
> Jennifer
> 
> moebius at ip-solutions.net wrote:
> 
> > Hey Jennifer,
> >   Since you are using redhat, goto the printtool and under the filters
> > section there is a checkbox for selecting to stop stair stepping. check
> > that, save the config, restart lpd.
> > HTH,
> >
> > Harry Hoffman
> > Product Systems Specialist
> > Restaurants Unlimited Inc.
> > 206.634.3082 x. 270
> >
> > On Wed, 5 Apr 2000, Jennifer Tippens wrote:
> >
> > > Greetings,
> > > I run and am used to Red Hat.  A guy in the office3 runs SuSe.  He is having a problem with print stair-stepping.  We use the same network postscript printer.  When he prints from Netscape, the page is printed properly, but when he prints a text file, it stair-steps.  I gave him my printcap and tarred my whole lp directory and he replaced his own.  Same problem.  It works great on mine, but his stair-steps.  He uses KDE and if he prints from any of his KDE applications he still has this problem. I'm not familiar with KDE as I run Gnome pretty much exclusively.  Can anyone help?
> > >
> > > Thanks a lot,
> > > Jennifer
> > >
> > >
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