232078 - Can not print without PCL option

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Todd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007 Netscape/7.1 Firebird/0.7
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031007  Firebird/0.7

Dudes!  

My printer only supports PCL (PCL5e).  When I print a page from Firebird 0.7
to my Okipage 14e, it prints out the text to the post script file that
Firebird sends it.  :'(   I need a PCL5e option to print as well as
postscript.

I have been told that Opera does support PCL, so someone may want to
look at how they did it for ideas.

This is my set up:
         Red Hat 9
         ghostscript-7.05.5-0.i386.rpm
         LPRng-3.8.19-3.1.i386.rpm
         gimp-print-4.2.5-2.i386.rpm
         LPRngTool-1.3.2-1.i386.rpm
         ifhp-3.5.6-1.i386.rpm 

And, no I can not switch to CUPS.  It does not support "send_try" in
the printcap.  (And it is buggier than ...)

Many thanks,
--Tony
[e-mail]

Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
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Comment 1

[Asa Dotzler [:asa]]

This shouldn't be something the app should have to worry about. We need more
information about how you set up the printer before we can proceed here. Thanks. 

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This is an automated message, with ID "auto-resolve01".

This bug has had no comments for a long time. Statistically, we have found that
bug reports that have not been confirmed by a second user after three months are
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Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

This bug has been automatically resolved after a period of inactivity (see above
comment). If anyone thinks this is incorrect, they should feel free to reopen it.