Sorry about the slashes in the wrong direction- I keep jumping from the linux box to the Windows laptop...
PDQ isn't just a front end for lpr or Lprng. PDQ stands for "Print, Don't Queue" and is a printing system that circumvents the printing queues altogether. With my printer, it's configured to use the pnm2ppa driver as a filter. When I said "with the same results" to describe the effects of printing from the Windows laptop over Samba I was being precise- the "lp0:compatibility mode" message appears without anything coming out of the printer. The file was being printed from within Microsoft Word. The printer's drivers need to be on the Windows client in order for Samba printing to work- thus one would think that the filtering is all done on the client side. > > Can for post a followup with a more exact description of what you are doing? > > First, in what you posted, the use of backslashes (\) where you should be > using forward slashes (/) is an obvious error, and it might help to know if > it is just in your message to us or in what you are actually doing. (That > is, the command should read "cat filename >>/dev/lp0", not "cat filename >> > \dev\lp0" -- your version is equivalent to "cat filename >> devlp0", which > would create the file devlp0 and copy the other file's contents to it.) In > any case, if the printer needs a special driver to work (as this one does; > see final item), cat'ing to lp0 is unlikely to work. > > Second, what does the [printers] block in /etc/samba/smb.conf look like? > Assuming it refrences a spool directory, what does the /etc/printcap entry > corresponding to that spooler look like? > > Third, when you say ... > > >So I've tried sending files from the Windows laptop > >(which has the printer's drivers installed) to the printer over Samba- with > >the same results. > > ... what are you actually doing? Are you printing to a network printer from > some application, for example? And do you really mean you get the message > "p0: compatibility mode" as part of the failure? If not, please be precise > about what you mean by "same" results. > > Fourth, when you say " I've got PDQ printing fine" ... how? PDQ appears to > be (from the apt-cache package description; I don't use it myself) just a > frontend for workstation use; behind the curtain, lpr or LPRng still needs > to be working to support Samba (but not necessarily PDQ) printing. > > Finally, have you consulted the Linux Printing Database for HP printers? > It's at URL > > http://www.linuxprinting.org/printer_list.cgi?make=HP > > The Deskjet 712C is listed in the works "Perfectly" column, and the link > specifies use of the pnm2ppa driver, and makes some comments about use > with PDQ as well. > > > -- > -------------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"-------- > Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo > Palo Alto, California, USA [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----- > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs
