Here's a bit more refinement on this problem. At this point, I can do
the following:
lpr -Pprint@pr167 t.ps # print directly to LPD on the printer
this works, and the document is properly rendered. Or,
lpr -Pcanon t.ps # print to LPRng LPD w/ bounce queue
gets to the Canon copier/printer, but Postscript source prints out. :(
Here's what the printcap entries look like at this point:
# Canon iR600
pr167|canon|canon-sx|canon-dx|canon-mf
:client
#:qq
#:lp=%Q@printserver
:lp=%P@printserver
pr167|canon|canon-sx|canon-dx|canon-mf
:server
:cm=Cannon_iR600_copier_2nd_floor_LSRC_D
:tc=.canon
.canon
:sh
:lpd_bounce
#: use_queuename=%P
#:lp=%P@printserver
:rp=print
:rm=pr167
:bk
#:bq=print@%P
:bq=print@pr167
:translate_format=f
:mx#0
#:rw
#:qq
:create_files
:ps=status
:af=acct
:lf=log
:spool_lock_file=lock.%P
:max_status_size=1024
:min_status_size=512
:max_log_file_size=1024
:min_log_file_size=512
:pl#66
:pw#80
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/%P
#:as=|/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/accounting.pl start
#:ae=|/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/accounting.pl end
#:accounting=|/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/acc.pl
:filter=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/csif
#:of=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/csof
#:bp=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/csbanner
:ifhp=model=postscript
#:ifhp=model=postscript,of_options=pagecount waitend
accounting=/auto/global/lprng/libexec/filters/acc.pl
I've tried various permutations of the 'translate_format' item,
including leaving it out all together, but haven't noticed any effect.
I am doing "lpc reread" after modifications to the printcap file.
Note that if I do not use:
:rp=print
:rm=pr167
in addition to the :bq entry, I get an error about a "missing
lp_device value".
Apparently I need some further tweaks to the 'bounce queue' paradigm
in use here. Any suggestions?
(lprng-3.7.4, ifhp-3.4.4, solaris-8)
On Wed, 6 Mar 2002, Daniel E. Singer wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Mar 2002, Patrick Powell wrote:
>
> > Find the port that the copier listens on for TCP/IP stuff.
> > It's documented somewhere.
> >
> > Say its port 9100.
> >
> > Then use the printcap:
> >
> > lp:
> > :lp=ip.address%9100
> > ....
> >
> >
> > and LPRng will open a connection to the port.
>
> Thank you very much for your response. As I mentioned in my original
> post (below), the copier/printer runs an internal LPD spooler, so it
> listens on port 515 and only accepts jobs this way.
>
> If I send a job directly to the printer with:
>
> lpr -Pprint@pr167 file.ps
>
> it will print. But we would like to take advantage of LPRng's
> filtering and job translation capabilities. Therefore, we would like
> to send the job to the LPRng print server, have the job processed,
> then sent on to the LPD spooler on the copier/printer.
>
> I'm reading thru docs., and trying different things, but so far it's
> not working. Sometimes I get printed PJL and Postscript. Sometimes
> it seems to queue and process, but nothing comes out. Bytheway, the
> Canon copier/printer supports jobs in PCL and Postscript.
>
> Should I send more info, such as printcap and lpq output? If this
> gets working, I promise I'll send the config info back to the list!
>
> > > We have a Solaris-8 print server, all of our Unix boxes forward print
> > > jobs to the server for processing, and PC's print to the print server
> > > via Samba. Most of our printers are HP's with network cards.
> > >
> > > The Canon runs its own lpd server, so I can send a print job (eg,
> > > Postscript) directly to the Canon:
> > >
> > > lpr -Pprint@canon test.ps
> > >
> > > This works, but we'd like to have the print jobs go thru the LPRng
> > > print server, especially for processing of non-PS job files (to get
> > > that automatic a2ps processing, etc.), and to get option selection
> > > processing like duplex, staple, etc. I assume this requires somehow
> > > setting up the printcap and ifhp.conf so that these jobs get forwarded
> > > to the LPRng server, get processed, then get forwarded to the lpd on
> > > the Canon.
> > >
> > > Any suggestions how to set this up? Would this process be simplified
> > > if we went thru the overhead of upgrading to the latest LPRng/ifhp
> > > versions? Anyone been thru this?
> > >
> > > We're running:
> > >
> > > LPRng-3.7.4
> > > ifhp-3.4.4
> > > Solaris-8
> > >
> > > Thanks.
> > >
> > > Dan
> > >
> > > PS: I know that this is probably in the docs. somewhere, but
> > > generally it's taken me a long time to find what I need. Newer
> > > versions of the docs. might be improved, but I'm worried about
> > > backwards compatibility.
> > >
> > > PPS: I assume that page counts are out of the question? :-/
>
> Thanks.
>
> -Dan
--
Daniel E. Singer, System Administrator
Dept. of Computer Science, Duke University, Durham NC 27708 USA
"Non cognosco. In hoc tantum laboro."
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