Laserwriter NTR Prints VERY LARGE Characters

The NTR is connected to a Sun machine running solaris. It prints fine from the Sun.
On the imac running SL when I print the size of the characters is very large. IIRC this started after installing SL. I have reset the print system to no avail. The printer URL is lpd://sun/lw. sun is the name of the sun system via DNS. I mount a filesystem on this machine and that works. At a prompt I tried
echo BOOOOO | lp -o cpi=10 -o lpi=6 which should give courier size print and instead I got the same old thing. I've tried it with the printer defined as a generic postscript printer and as a laserwriter NTR. No change. What do you suggest? What other information do you need?

This problem persisted over several power cycles. I read on a forum that the "deep cycle" power cycle is shutting down the machine, disconnecting power (unplugging the AC cord or removing the battery from a laptop), and pushing and holding the power button for several seconds (30 when I did it). That fixed the problem - printing is back to normal size. You Apple wonks gotta make sure you initialize every dynamic variable - Programming 101!!!!! I lost some respect for Apple in this episode.
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