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Date:      Mon, 11 Nov 1996 22:05:44 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        "Brian J. McGovern" <mcgovern@spoon.beta.com>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Printcaps...
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSI.3.94.961111220449.24357Q-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199611112319.SAA00818@spoon.beta.com>

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On Mon, 11 Nov 1996, Brian J. McGovern wrote:

> 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:

I don't see a v file filter here.

Try adding the following:

	:vf=/bin/cat:

I assume you want to just dump the output from Windows directly to the
printer with no further work.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major




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