From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 26 12:25:43 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from Mail6.nc.rr.com (mail6.southeast.rr.com [24.93.67.53]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C17BE37B422 for ; Sat, 26 Aug 2000 12:25:39 -0700 (PDT) Received: from welsh.dynip.com ([24.162.231.59]) by Mail6.nc.rr.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC(5.5.1877.357.35); Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:25:26 -0400 Received: (qmail 63063 invoked by uid 1000); 26 Aug 2000 19:25:39 -0000 Received: from localhost (sendmail-bs@127.0.0.1) by localhost with SMTP; 26 Aug 2000 19:25:38 -0000 Date: Sat, 26 Aug 2000 15:25:38 -0400 (EDT) From: jason To: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: printing text with deskjet 842 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have been trying to print from my freebsd 4.0 box to this printer and keep getting the dreaded staggered text..i.e. !"#$%&'()*+,-./01234 "#$%&'()*+,-./012345 #$%&'()*+,-./0123456 I followed the directions in the printing section of the handbook and set up my print filter as such #!/bin/sh # # # Treat LF as CR+LF: # printf "\033&k2G" || exit 2 and that file is executable. [jason@welsh]$ ls -al /usr/local/libexec/if-simple -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 211 Aug 26 12:53 /usr/local/libexec/if-simple my /etc/printcap contains # lp|local line printer:\ :sh:\ :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: :if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simple: # # Sample remote printer. The physical printer is on machine "lphost". any suggestions? regards, Jason -- ======================================================================= | Jason Welsh jason@welsh.dynip.com | If you think there's | | | good in everybody, you | | http://welsh.dynip.com/ | haven't met everybody. | ======================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message