Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1998 08:14:29 -0400 (EDT) From: Patrick Gardella <patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> To: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: I cant get my Epson Printer to work Message-ID: <XFMail.980826081429.patrick@cre8tivegroup.com> In-Reply-To: <35E38F71.3B24B627@aei.ca>
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What that error is telling you is that the lpr daemon is not started. To fix it temporarily, type: lpd It's that simple. lpd is by default set to not run at system startup. To change this, make the line in /etc/rc.conf: lpd_enable="NO" # Run the line printer daemon. to say YES instead of NO. Since you are using an epson, you may want to look at ghostscript5 and apsfilter. FreeBSD uses Postscript as the default printing format. Epson uses a different format. Ghostscript interprets the Postscript into Epson format. Apsfilter makes the printing of various file types automatic (It's a print filter). They are both in /usr/ports/printing. Good luck! The Epson Stylus' are great printers. I've got one myself (Stylus 600). Patrick On 26-Aug-98 Malartre wrote: > I have an Epson Stylus Color II which is on a paralel port. > I have done all of what is in the handbook, but only the test work: > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook85.html#97 > That WORK: ># lptest > /dev/lpt0 > but when I setup the simple filter, then I get > http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/handbook85.html#printing:textfilter ># lptest 20 5 | lpr -Pepson > lpr: connect: No such file or directory > jobs queued, but cannot start daemon. > Do you want more info? > -- > [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/] > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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