From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 2 18:38:42 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail5.registeredsite.com (mail5.registeredsite.com [209.35.159.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0ABF437BCC7 for ; Tue, 2 May 2000 18:38:40 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from cwalker@powercomenergy.com) Received: from mail.powercomenergy.com (mail.powercomenergy.com [216.25.67.109]) by mail5.registeredsite.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id IAA05969; Tue, 2 May 2000 08:36:48 -0400 Received: from iscaleb [63.203.115.214] by mail.powercomenergy.com (SMTPD32-5.05) id A23042500DA; Tue, 02 May 2000 21:34:40 -0400 From: "Caleb Walker" To: "'Jonathan Chen'" , "'Caleb Walker'" Cc: Subject: RE: Printing on an HP4050TN Date: Tue, 2 May 2000 18:40:45 -0700 Message-ID: <003001bfb4a0$9a6bdb30$3201a8c0@iscaleb> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook CWS, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2314.1300 Importance: Normal In-Reply-To: <20000504125922.B606@jonc.itouch.co.nz> Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message