[rescue] LaserJet II printing problems

[wlewis at mailbag.com]

Ok, folks, here's an actual Rescue topic for you :)

My Epson inkjet that was running fine under CUPS died recently, so I started 
looking for a different printer. Over the weekend I scored an old LaserJet II 
(1.5 mb and no font carts) with a still good toner in it and one unused one for 
$25.00. Cleaned up the feed assembly, switched it to parallel I/O, and it self 
tests (with test page printing) just fine.

However, if I attempt to use CUPS to print via it's laserjet driver, I get a 
black smear instead of text. The plain Solaris print system prints ascii just 
fine, but as it's not a postscript printer all I can get from StarOffice (for 
example) is a very pretty print out of postscript source code - not too useful. 
I've also tried to get Gimp-Print running, but while it builds fine, it won't 
install correctly for me. 

Any clues, hints, tips, etc greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

William