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Date:      Tue, 2 May 2000 18:40:45 -0700
From:      "Caleb Walker" <cwalker@powercomenergy.com>
To:        "'Jonathan Chen'" <Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz>, "'Caleb Walker'" <cwalker@powercomenergy.com>
Cc:        <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Printing on an HP4050TN
Message-ID:  <003001bfb4a0$9a6bdb30$3201a8c0@iscaleb>
In-Reply-To: <20000504125922.B606@jonc.itouch.co.nz>

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It works!!!!!  After a couple of fine tuning it works!!!!

-----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan Chen [mailto:Jonathan.Chen@itouch.co.nz]
Sent: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 5:59 PM
To: Caleb Walker
Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Re: Printing on an HP4050TN


On Tue, May 02, 2000 at 05:35:36PM -0700, Caleb Walker wrote:
> This is my printcap file:
> hp|hp1100|hp4050tn:\
>         :sh:\
>         :lp=:\
>         :rm=publichp.powercom:\
>         :rp=lp:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp4050tn:\
>         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>         :if=/var/local/libexec/psif:\
>         :mx#0:\
>         :rs:
> 
> Why does it not work?
> When I print it says:
> lpr: lp: unknown printer

That's cause the default printer is "lp" and you haven't got it
defined in your printcap. Change your first line to:

		lp|hp|hp1100|hp4050tn:\

-- 
Jonathan Chen <jonathan.chen@itouch.co.nz>



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