Date: Mon, 11 Nov 1996 18:19:09 -0500 From: "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printcaps... Message-ID: <199611112319.SAA00818@spoon.beta.com>
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Thanks for all the people that helped me getting PS via GS working with my
inkjet. One last problem. I have hosts.equiv set up to let a couple of hosts
use LPR printing to my Unix host. When I print text or postscript from the
local machine, it works fine. When I print from my Windows 3.1 workstation
(again, using LPR, and the printdrivers for the color bubblejet (Cannon BJC
600), it gives the following error:
<Date> spoon lpd[pid]: lp no filter found in printcap for format character 'v'
Then it says the job can't be printed, and poof, its gone from the queue. Any
answers?
Thanks...
-Brian
My Printcap looks like:
lp|Cannon Inkjet:\
:sh:mx#0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/bjc600:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:lf=/var/log/bjc600.log:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/if-cannon:\
:tf=/usr/local/libexec/tr-cannon:\
:df=/usr/local/libexec/dvi-cannon:
My filters look like:
/usr/local/libexec/if-cannon:
#! /bin/sh
#
# if-ljetplus: a filter to print plain files or postscript files
#
#
# We don't really need this
#
# This line resets the printer, and sets character size to:
# 12cpi/6.6lpi.
# printf "\033E\033&l2a0o7.27C\033(s0p12h3T"
set PATH=/bin:/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/local/libexec:/usr/local/lib/ghostscript:/usr/bin:/usr/sbin
export PATH
read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then
/usr/local/bin/gs -I/usr/local/share/ghostscript/4.02 -r320 -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=bjc600 -sPAPERSIZE=letter -sOutputFile=- - \
&& exit 0
else
(echo $first_line && cat && printf "\f")
&& exit 0
fi
exit 2
/usr/local/libexec/tr-cannon:
#! /bin/sh
#
# tr-ljetplus: convert groff output to postscript, and print.
#
/usr/bin/grops | /usr/local/libexec/if-cannon "$@"
/usr/local/libexec/dvi-cannon:
#!/bin/sh
#
# dvi-ljetplus: convert dvi to postscript, and print it.
#
/usr/local/bin/dvips -f | /usr/local/libexec/if-cannon "$@"
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