Bob Beck wrote:
I used to fight with such insanity constantly.
However since printers are frequently sold and shipped
with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time
these filter utilites are barely reverse engineered POS's I decided
long ago that fighting with them was counterprodocutive. easily 2/3 of
the time (depending on your printer model) they are unreliable at
best.
simple answer, postscript printers are cheap. find a printer that
speaks postscript and avoid all the nonsense. I got one (LexMark
C510) a year and a half ago for $325 CDN that speaks postscript and
talks to my print spooler on ethernet, and most of my printer woes
went away.
Sorry to hi-jack this thread - but I'm currently fighting with a Lexmark
C500n - when talking lpd over the network to it, it always resets the
connection without printing the job.
The printer does have lpd enabled - but I've not managed to get it
working could you enlighten me :~)
My printcap and log message from /var/log/lpd-errs follows:
x41:fred ~> cat /etc/printcap
# $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
#lp|local line printer:\
# :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
#rp|remote line printer:\
# :lp=:rm=printhost:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
rp|c500|laser|lexmark:\
:lp=:\
:rm=c500.crowsons.net:\
:rp=ps:\
:sd=/var/spool/C500:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
x41:fred ~> lpr -Plaser which.ps
x41:fred ~> tail -2 /var/log/lpd-errs
Jul 17 18:14:36 x41 lpd[18903]: x41.crowsons.net requests printjob laser
Jul 17 18:14:39 x41 lpd[18903]: laser: lost connection
x41:fred ~>
Thanks
Fred
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