From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jul 7 5:38:12 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C32D537B401 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 05:38:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wonkity.com (wonkity.com [63.93.4.4]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3CB6743E42 for ; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 05:38:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from wonkity.com (localhost.wonkity.com [127.0.0.1]) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g67Cc9uF037807; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:38:09 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Received: from localhost (wblock@localhost) by wonkity.com (8.12.1/8.12.1/Submit) with ESMTP id g67Cc9nV037804; Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:38:09 -0600 (MDT)?g (envelope-from wblock@wonkity.com) Date: Sun, 7 Jul 2002 06:38:09 -0600 (MDT) From: Warren Block To: Jud Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Elementary Printing Help, Please In-Reply-To: <20020707013135.79c4df6f.jud@myrealbox.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Sun, 7 Jul 2002, Jud wrote: > I have an HP 820Cse connected to my local machine as lpt0. It > prints fine from Windows, so the hardware works. I have apsfilter > installed and /etc/printcap set up to use the ppa driver that > these particular HP machines must use. I have lpd_enable="YES" in > my /etc/rc.conf file. I also uncommented the localhost line in > /etc/hosts.equiv, just in case that might have any effect. > However, I get no response at all from the printer whenever I try > to print anything. For instance, if I try > > # lptest > /dev/lpt0 > > there is a momentary pause, then the root prompt comes up for the > next line, but the printer just sits there. You're sending text straight to a Winprinter which doesn't understand it. It needs to be sent through the driver. If your printer is named "lp" in /etc/printcap, you can do that with lpr like this: # lptest | lpr lpr is the client printing program that works with lpd. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message