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From: "Christoph P. Kukulies" <kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de>
Subject: Re: FreeBSD Printing problems
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> Please offer any advice relating to my printing problem with FreeBSD 2.10
> I have a Canon BJ4100 Colour BubbleJet printer and I get the following 
> error whenever I send something to the printer via lpr:
> 
> lpr: connect: no such file or directory
> job has been queued but daemon failed to start
> 
> Note: the printer is connected and functional with Windows 95/NT, etc.
> and FreeBSD can print a test page to it via lprtest.
> 
> The following is my Printcap file:
> 
> #       @(#)printcap    5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
> 
> #lp|local line printer:\
> #       :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> lp|canon line:\
>         :sh:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd:\
>         :if=/var/local/libexec/if-simple:\
>         :if=/var/log/canon.log  
           ^lf=

Does /dev/lpt0 exist and does it point to a configured device?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Shazad
> P.S. I have a P90 with 32MB RAM and I have created the spool directory 
> mentioned above. I also have about 10MB free HD space according to the df 
> command.
> I was logged in as root at the time of these tests.
> 
> 

--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de