On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Martin Waller wrote: > My father-in-law just hgave me an OKI OL600ex laser printer.
I have an OkiPage 10ex that emulates a LaserJet 5. Your OKI might emulate a LaserJet of some sort also. > Doing any prinitng (e.g. cat afile.txt > /dev/lp or echo hello > /dev/lp > does nothing - lpq just says: > > waiting for lp to become ready (offline?) > <the jobs waiting> I had a similar problem this morning (don't remember the message) and it turned out that the lpd daemon was not running. I had no idea WTF made it stop running, as it was working the night before. Anyway, these commands might be useful: /etc/init.d/lpd start /etc/init.d/lpd stop /etc/init.d/lpd restart I recommend you use magicfilterconfig to set it up. I happen to be using the ljet2p (LaserJet IIP) filter because I was too lazy to change when I got this printer. It didn't break, so I didn't fix it! Anyway, I think your OKI might emulate some form of LaserJet, so you might want to try magicfilter with the various ljet filters. Also, make sure you're telling it the right port. I think mine is /dev/lp0. Hope this helps, Patrick
