This impression of yours turns out to be the entire solution to the problem. Somehow the setting had been changed. I will probably never know how (or who). I reset it to ESP and everything prints, including Firefox! I never considered the printer as the problem because "I" had not changed it. I printed the settings sheet and will keep it on file so we have a record of how it should be configured.Almut Behrens wrote: OK, seriously, I'm getting the impression that, for whatever reason, your printer somehow got inadvertendly misconfigured to no longer useESP technology.
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Even though the problem was solved I tried this. No code, the file just prints. Oh well, something for another time.If that should still leave you in a "no luck" situation, then please see what happens when using $ lpr -o raw <psfile> as I suggested in my previous post (and make sure that %!PS actually does appear directly at the beginning of the file...).
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When the printer was donated I remember seeing a file folder stuffed full of documentation. I don't think anyone knows for sure where it is now. I will probably have to print what you found.(I assume you already have a hardcopy version of that manual -- just to make sure we're talking about the same thing)
>Just to try to tie as many threads together as possible, Nicos Gollan reccomended removing xprint. Which I did, with no apparent ill effects.
Thanks for sticking with this, folks. Jim