Re: Stripes are printed with Cups, gs prints correct

Kay Obermueller wrote:
> Hello all,
> I've compiled and installed the Cups cvs version from yesterday and
> 
> hpijs-1.4.1 . Also I've installed ESP Ghostscript 7.07 (gs --version
> 
> reports 7.07.1). Now I'm trying to setup my HP Deskjet500 and installed
> 
> a printer with the web admin interface of Cups, in which I choose "HP
> 
> Deskjet 500, Foomatic + hpijs (recommended) (en)" as the model.
> As result of the testpage I only get artistic looking stripes, beginning
> 
> from the left, ending roughly in the middle of the paper.
> But with:
> gs -sOutputFile=/dev/lp0 -sDEVICE=djet500 /home/xxx/ls.ps
> it prints a correct page. So ghostscript works in principle.
> What's wrong?
> Unfortunately www.linuxprinting.org is down this weekend. Is there
> a 
> mirror available?
> Thank you in advance!
> 
> Kay
> 
> 

Did you add: 

include pstoraster/cups.mak

to the end of the ghostscript makefile before building?  If it's not there your 
problem is that cups can't use ghostscript to rasterize.

Michael