Hi all, any printing gurus out there can help me out, I'm pretty much
out of questions or answers for getting this working, read docs, YES,
I've been to linuxprinting.org. Their documentation is ok, except it
assumes you already know what these things do. For instance mentioning
that foomatic can make ppd files. I couldn't however for the life of me
find documentation that the command was foomatic-ppdfile, but I digress....

2.4.20 kernel, pIII 750 mhz Slackware 9.0
Haven't been able to get LPRNG to print anything.
Can print raw to printer, however when using
foomatic-rip+gimp-print+lprng+espgs7.07.1 I get the following error



Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Found: %%EndSetup' at
08:39:36.230
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - '-----------' at
08:39:36.230
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'New page: (1-2) 1' at
08:39:36.230
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Inserting option code
into "PageSetup" section.' at 08:39:36.231
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Found:
%%BeginPageSetup' at 08:39:36.231
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Found: %%EndPageSetup'
at 08:39:36.232
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'End of page header' at
08:39:36.232
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Flushing FIFO.' at
08:39:36.235
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Starting renderer' at
08:39:36.235
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'renderer PID
kid4=10166' at 08:39:36.239
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'renderer command: ' at
08:39:36.239
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'JCL: <job data> ' at
08:39:36.240
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'renderer return value:
255' at 08:39:36.255
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'renderer received
signal: 255' at 08:39:36.255
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Process dying with "The
renderer command line returned an unrecognized error code 255.", exit
stat: 1' at 08:39:36.256
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'The renderer command
line returned an unrecognized error code 255.' at 08:39:36.256
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Closing renderer' at
08:39:36.257
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'KID3 exited with status
1' at 08:39:36.257
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Renderer exit stat: 1'
at 08:39:36.257
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Renderer process
finished' at 08:39:36.270
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Killing process 10165
(KID3)' at 08:39:36.270
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Process dying with
"Error closing renderer", exit stat: 1' at 08:39:36.270
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'Error closing renderer'
at 08:39:36.270
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'tail process done
writing data to STDOUT' at 08:39:36.270
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter msg - 'KID4 finished' at
08:39:36.271
Status: IF filter 'foomatic-rip' filter exit status 'JFAIL' at
08:39:36.278
Status: printing finished at 08:39:36.279
Status: accounting at end at 08:39:36.279
Status: finished 'root@andromeda+142', status 'JFAIL' at 08:39:36.279
Status: job 'root@andromeda+142', attempt 3, allowed 3 at 08:39:36.280
Status: send_failure_action 'JREMOVE' at 08:39:36.280
Status: job 'root@andromeda+142', removing job - status JREMOVE at
08:39:36.280
Status: job 'root@andromeda+142' saved at 08:39:36.281
Rank Owner/ID Pr/Class Job Files Size Time
error root@andromeda+142 A 142 ERROR: too many errors


The rendered receives a signal 255, then bails out. I pretty much have
all the up to date software, but a few things confuse me. What is the
difference between a print-filter and a printer-driver. I have
gimp-print as the recommended driver but I have no idea what it does
since foomatic-rip uses the a2ps filter. I've been all over the
Internet trying to get printing to work, have tried cups with no
success. Tips, suggestions, thoughts greatly appreciated.

Zach