Date: Sun, 1 Oct 1995 09:33:46 +0800 (WST) From: Terry Dwyer <tdwyer@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> To: Sean Kelly <kelly@fsl.noaa.gov> Cc: imb@scgt.oz.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Low end PS laser, or inkjet/bubblejet Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.90.951001093027.24180B-100000@netbsd08.dn.itg.telecom.com.au> In-Reply-To: <9509281304.AA09023@emu.fsl.noaa.gov>
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> michael> Whilst not directly related .. I run a pair of HP4s (one
> michael> M+ and one MV for A3 printing) with JetDirect cards and,
> michael> therefore, an "rm" entry in /etc/printcap. What surprised
> michael> me was that I don't seem to be able to get any filters to
> michael> preprocess the stuff before shooting it at the printer.
>
> Ah, yep. The LPD protocol says that filtering of jobs happens on the
> printer host. And if the printer host is itself the printer, it's
> expected to have enough smarts to know how to convert DVI, troff,
> ditroff, cifplot, Fortran Text, etc., to native format.
>
> michael> Is this what's supposed to happen ? How do I fix it ? :-)
>
> Oh, I'm sure it's not what you wanted! You can fix it if your
> JetDirect card also supports non-server (LPD) mode---if it just has
> some data stream mode, where it listens to a certain port number and
> prints any data that comes in, rather than emulate a spooling host.
>
> If it can do that, then set up on of your FreeBSD hosts to be the
> printer host. Then you can have the conversion filters for the
> formats you want to support. Have them send their results to the
> printer.
>
> Or, use PLP or LPRng, which support filtering of jobs on the
> submitting host instead of the printer host---then you can still use
> the server mode on the printer.
>
I saw a tip some time ago. try these printcap entries for an HP LJ4SI:
The key is the rp=text|raw
l4si_txt|ASCII remote line printer:\
:sh:lp=:rm=144.139.64.98:rp=text:sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
:lf=var/log/lpd-errs:pw#80:
l4si_raw|BINARY remote line printer on witg_networks_f1:\
:sh:lp=:rm=144.139.64.98:rp=raw:sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
:lf=var/log/lpd-errs:pw#80:
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