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> Subject: LPRng: Bounce queues
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> My system at home/office consists of a regular PC running
> Debian Linux (slink/woody/potato) and a router/firewall
> running FreeSCO (486/33). Both computers have printers
> attached to their parallel ports. I want to do all print
> processing on the regular PC. Both LPRng and magicfilter
> were current/unstable as of a week ago.
What version?
>
> I believe I need to use a bounce queue, in order to process
> print jobs on my regular PC, before I send the print job
> to the printer connected to my firewall. I can send test
> text jobs to that printer, but they suffer from the dreaded
> staircase effect. Looking at the magicfilter setup, it
> appears that magicfilter should be prepending the appropriate
> escape sequence to the print job, but if I stop the queues
> to look at the data files there are no escape sequences
> present. I've run both lpr -D 8 and lpd -F -D 8 while
They get added when the job is actually printed, not to
the spool files.
> sending a short text print job, and while I can see that
> lpd.perms, lpd.conf and printcap all get read (multiple times
> it seems), I can't see anything which looks like lpd starting
> the input filter on the input. I think I've tried about 10
> different printcaps all based on example bounce queues I've
> seen in LPRng docs.
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>
> One version (earlier) of my printcap was
>
> lp|HP Laserjet 3P:
> :lp=bounce@localhost
> :lpd_bounce
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hplj3p
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet3-filter:
> :sh:
> bounce:
> :lp=lp@FreeSCO
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/bounce
> :bq_format=l
> :sh:
This should work. You need to have only
one queue for what you want.
lp|HP Laserjet 3P:rm=server.ip.address <- put in the IP address or host name
lp|HP Laserjet 3P:server
#:lp=bounce@localhost
:lp=lp@FreeSCO
:lpd_bounce
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
:if=/etc/magicfilter/ljet3-filter:
:bq_format=l
:sh:
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