Date: 30 Apr 2002 23:31:36 +0100 From: "S. Roberts" <sroberts@dsl.pipex.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printing to HP 820 Cxi from FreeBSD 4.5 Stable Message-ID: <1020205897.344.30.camel@Demon.Strobe.org>
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Hello,
I'm having problems printing to an HP DeskJet 820 Cxi (parallel)
printer connected to one of my machines.
I've tried the Handbook setup for using lp, lpr and installed
apsfilter-7.2.2 as well after my earlier attempts fail. The thing is, my
printer does *not* appear in any of the lists of drivers when running
apsfilter setup as per the pkg-message. So I know that this was not a
good start.
But I would have thought that the comments in the Handbook, Unleashed as
well as The Complete FreeBSD about how simple this should be, would
somehow mitigate against this. However, no matter which driver I try, I
keep getting no results.
lptest returns no output as expected, but everything else fails:
ps waux | grep lp
root 464 0.0 0.2 948 672 ?? I 8:18PM 0:00.01
gnome-pty-helper
root 70608 0.0 0.2 964 704 ?? Is 11:26PM 0:00.02 lpd
root 70609 0.0 0.2 964 704 ?? S 11:26PM 0:00.00 lpd
lptest > /dev/lpt0
/dev/lpt0: Device not configured.
lpq
waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st root 8 (standard input) 105 bytes
2nd root 9 (standard input) 105 bytes
Is anyone out there actually running one of these printers? Can you
assist, please?
Thanks to all those that might reply.
Stacey
Demon# ls -l /dev/lpt?
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt0
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 1 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt1
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 2 Apr 27 12:27 /dev/lpt2
Demon#
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Stacey Roberts B.Sc. (HONS) Computer Science
Network Systems Engineer
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