From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Aug 5 21:29:55 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id VAA24450 for questions-outgoing; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 21:29:55 -0700 Received: from fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.171]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with SMTP id VAA24443 for ; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 21:29:53 -0700 Received: by fslg8.fsl.noaa.gov (5.57/Ultrix3.0-C) id AA09749; Sun, 6 Aug 95 04:29:52 GMT Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.38.193.4/SMI-4.1 (1.38.193.4)) id AA13665; Sat, 5 Aug 1995 22:29:50 -0600 Date: Sat, 5 Aug 1995 22:29:50 -0600 From: kelly@fsl.noaa.gov (Sean Kelly) Message-Id: <9508060429.AA13665@emu.fsl.noaa.gov> To: fadorno@ix.netcom.com Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <199508060348.UAA20037@ix2.ix.netcom.com> (fadorno@ix.netcom.com) Subject: Re: Printcap setup for Epson ActionLaser 1500 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Fred" == Fred Adorno writes: Fred> Sean, I followed your instructions. The program is talking Fred> to my printer. However, it just prints garbage and form Fred> feeds forever. Don't I need to make a device driver for the Fred> hardware? If it's on a parallel port, then you already have the device driver, and you talk to the device driver through /dev/lpt0. Fred> Do I need to put some variables in printcap to control form Fred> feed and speed info? Since it's on a parallel port, there isn't any speed info to set up. The only form feed information you can put in /etc/printcap is what string to send as a form feed, whether to print a form feed when opening the device, or whether to suppress them altogether. Let's narrow down the problem. Without using lpr at all, type lptest 70 10 > /dev/lpt0 and tell me what comes out of your printer. You might have to wait a moment for the printer to realize there's no more data arriving before it starts printing. -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Lab, Boulder Colorado USA TASK: Shoot yourself in the foot. In FORTH: Foot in yourself shoot.