Date: Mon, 08 Jul 2002 21:08:27 -0400 From: Jud <jud@myrealbox.com> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, simon.freebsd@hccnet.nl, danny@ricin.com Subject: Re: Elementary Printing Help, Please Message-ID: <1TQNMD0IHIEUR96EDOI1QKPNNJMHA9.3d2a378b@sparky> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0207070633270.37792-100000@wonkity.com>
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7/7/2002 8:38:09 AM, Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> wrote: >On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Jud wrote: > >> I have an HP 820Cse connected to my local machine as lpt0. It >> prints fine from Windows, so the hardware works. I have apsfilter >> installed and /etc/printcap set up to use the ppa driver that >> these particular HP machines must use. I have lpd_enable="YES" in >> my /etc/rc.conf file. I also uncommented the localhost line in >> /etc/hosts.equiv, just in case that might have any effect. >> However, I get no response at all from the printer whenever I try >> to print anything. For instance, if I try >> >> # lptest > /dev/lpt0 >> >> there is a momentary pause, then the root prompt comes up for the >> next line, but the printer just sits there. > >You're sending text straight to a Winprinter which doesn't understand >it. It needs to be sent through the driver. If your printer is named >"lp" in /etc/printcap, you can do that with lpr like this: > ># lptest | lpr > >lpr is the client printing program that works with lpd. Thanks to everyone who answered. lpr was the key. It works now on pretty much everything I try except lptest (ASCII), for which I imagine I'll be cadging the appropriate section of Simon's or someone else's /etc/printcap. Jud To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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