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Posted: Mar. 06 2005,07:31 QUOTE

apsfilter says that the hl1250 driver is not in the version of gs and to recompile gs. Is there any other way to get a Brother HL1270N or HL1400 series driver into the system? I tried synaptic gimp, cups, etc. and got nowhere. TIA
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Posted: Mar. 06 2005,07:53 QUOTE

Supposedly, the Brother HL-1250 is a PCL compatiple printer.

This means that any older HP InkJet or LaserJet driver should work fine.

Try some of the HP drivers like the LaserJet 4 driver for example.
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Posted: Mar. 07 2005,01:50 QUOTE

Thanks cbagger. No luck with the lj4 driver, either. I can't get past "can't start ijs server ijsgimpprint"  I searched the forum and found one instance, clivesay, who cited using option 5 instead of 4 in gimpprint to solve the problem, but I think that was on an earlier version of DSL. I could find no gimpprint or ijsgimpprint on the system (.9.3 installed to hd, complete install). I downloaded all the gimp packages using Synaptic. Made no difference. Still can't find a file ijsgimpprint on my system. Any suggestions? This Brother HL 1435 is supposed to be a plain vanilla HP clone; it works fine with W2K on another Thinkpad 600e that Eleanor uses, so it isn't the printer. I'm using a parallel cable, absolutely straightforward. Aside from printing, DSL is working very well.
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Posted: Mar. 07 2005,02:35 QUOTE

Hmm...

It is possible that your Synaptic gimp downloads conflicted with the files / paths for apsfilter.

I would either install full-blown CUPS from Synaptic, or boot from the livecd and see if you can get apsfilter to work while not using your hd install.
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Posted: Mar. 07 2005,06:13 QUOTE

Thanks for your response. I found the cause of the ijsgimpprint error: earlier versions of ghostscript (which we must have in DSL .9.3) use the stp software rather than the ijs software. Both choices are given in apsfilter. Choice 4 is for stp; choice 5 is for ijs. Choice 4 drivers will not generate a missing ijsgimpprint error. I looked up the printer in Google and found that HPIIp was recommended as a substitute driver. So far, so good. I set up the live CD with the HPIIp driver from apsfilter choice 4. Still unable to print, however. I am unable to even #cat filetool.lst > /dev/lp0, so it would seem that the problem is more basic. The printer light flashes when told to print. A blank (header) page is produced sometimes, but nothing else is printed. The /var/spool/lpd/lp/status log generates a "tr: Write Error" message along with a lot of start up and shut down info. Write Error. Yup. Not sure what to try next. Maybe bed.
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