Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 09:24:15 +1300 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> To: Joe Park <joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printer problem Message-ID: <20000316092415.C33339@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000314201950.009517d0@uclink4.berkeley.edu>; from joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu on Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:20:38AM -0800 References: <4.2.0.58.20000314201950.009517d0@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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On Wed, Mar 15, 2000 at 12:20:38AM -0800, Joe Park wrote:
> Hello,
>
> As one of processes of moving from Window to FreeBSD, I started to work on
> printer now. I have Panasonic KX-P6500 laser printer and on first try of
> "lptest > /dev/lpt0", it printed one line of ASCII chracters on first page
> and two blank page.
Yup. That's what I expect. You've got a staircasing effect, as your
printer does not automatically translate a '\n' to '\r\n'.
>And I thought, "hmm, that's odd. Let me try to set up
> printcap and see what happen." So I edited printcap like this :
>
> ##########################
> lp|panasonic|local Panasonic KX-P6500:\
> :sh:\
> :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
> :if=/usr/local/libexec/lpfilter:
> ##########################
>
> And "lptest > /dev/lpt0" gives me 3 blank pages.
Changing the printcap file does *NOT* affect lptest, as lptest is
printing directly to the device. ie it doesn't look at /etc/printcap
at all.
>I tried spooler but all
> jobs sit at the queue. I tried polled mode with "lptcontrol -p" but
> nothing changed.
Have you got the lpd(8) daemon running? What's the output of `lpq -a'
like?
[...]
Jonathan Chen
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