Date: Thu, 10 Aug 1995 14:19:10 -0500 (CDT) From: edward@seaysys.com (Edward E. Elzey) To: fadorno@ix.netcom.com (Fred Adorno) Cc: kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de, marino.ladavac@aut.alcatel.at, kelly@fsl.noaa.gov, questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Printcap and Laser printer Message-ID: <9508101919.AA04778@seaysys.com> In-Reply-To: <199508101832.LAA29873@ix2.ix.netcom.com> from "Fred Adorno" at Aug 10, 95 11:32:05 am
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Received from Fred Adorno:
>
> You wrote:
> >
> >>
> >> You wrote:
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >> I have not been able to configure my Epson laser printer with
> this
> >> >> software. It is setup for a single user on a 486DX66 machine.
> The
> >> >> printer device is lpt0. Please help me!!!!!
> >> >
> >> >What happens, if you type
> >> >
> >> >lpr /etc/passwd
> >> >
> >> >Does anything come out of the printer on a freshly powered up and
> >> rebooted
> >> >system ?(I'm saying that because the history sometimes can
> >> >make things more complicated).
> >> >
> >> >>
> >> >Send me your /etc/printcap
> >> >
> >> >Consult the file /var/log/lpd-errs (normally).
> >> >
> >> >
> >> >--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> >> >
> >> Thanks for responding, Chris! I did as you ask and I got an error
> msg
> >> on screen that reads "lpd [158]: cannot execv
> >> /usr/libexec/lpr/#!/bin/sh:"
> >>
> >> My printcap reads:
> >>
> >> lp|epson|action|laser|Epson Actionlaser 1500:\
> >> :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/epson:mx#0:\
> >> :if=/usr/libexec/lpr/#!/bin/sh:\
> >> printf "\033&k3G"
> >> exec /bin/cat
> >>
> >Maybe this 'in-line shell script in printcap is a tricky
> >feature but unless I had understood that trick in full
> >and were sure that FreeBSD supports feature
> >I'd be conservative and wrtoe the if line as follows
> >
> > :if=/usr/local/bin/lpf:\
> >
> >and create that script 'lpf' in /usr/local/bin:
> >
> >#!/bin/sh
> >echo "\033&k3G"
> >exec /bin/cat
> >
> >proviced that the guy who gave you that escape sequence knows what
> he's doing.
> >
> >See what happens then.
> >
> >> What's the solution? When it prints, I get garbage and it form
> feeds
> >> forever. When I do the lptest, I only get 1 line of ASCI characters
>
> >> and it form feeds indefinitely.
> >>
> >
> >--Chris Christoph P. U. Kukulies kuku@gil.physik.rwth-aachen.de
> >
> I did as you said. Still when I do the lptest,
> I get 1 line of ASCII and form feeds forever.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Your printer is not seeing any "carriage return" characters. The
echo "\033&k3G"
should be telling the printer to add a <CR> preceeding each <LF> character.
It seems that this is not happening. I can think of a couple of reasons
this might be. Perhaps the \033 is not being properly expanded into an
<ESC> character. Or, the printer may not be in PCL emulation mode (emulating
an HP LaserJet). Or that printer may not be capable of PCL emulation.
Do any of the characters "&k2G" show up at the beginning of the line that
does print? This would indicate that the <ESC> is not being handled right.
If the printer can be set-up to always translate <LF> into <CR><LF>, you
might try setting that.
> I get the feeling also that I should be doing
> something with "chmod" and other when I keep changing this printcap.
> Show me how to undo all of this and let's start from scratch. The
> printer emulates HP III LaserJet, Epson LQ, FX, GL/2. I just want to
> be able to print text files, shells, man pages or word processing. Are
> my options limited?
>
--
Edward E. Elzey
FreeBSD by avocation,
All others by vocation.
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