Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
Alexander Hall wrote:
Ed Ahlsen-Girard wrote:
OK, I've installed Samba, and gotten printcap set such that I
printed a straight text fire, but nothing else works now that I tried
to print other formats through gv and open-office.
Perhaps Samba is not the way to go? Printcap below.
# $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:
lp|hpoffice:rp=hpoffice:rm=192.168.1.100:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice:af=/var/spool/lpd/hpoffice/acct:if=/usr/local/bin/smbprint:mx=0:lp=/dev/null:
For local printing, samba does nothing. Unless your printer supports
postcsript natively (most cheap printers don't) you need some kind of
converting filter. For my canon i550, i'm using apsfilter combined
with ghostscript, both available as packages/ports.
Dont know if /usr/local/bin/smbprint in your printcap is some filter
like that or where it comes from. Can't find it in any port.
/Alexander
It's not local printing. It's an HP OfficeJet hung on a Windows XP
machine.
Ok, so your machine is a samba client. That explains the if=... part. :)
Anyway, if I'm not terribly mistaken, samba or that XP host will not
help you convert from postscript (or whatever the program printing from
is delivering) to the printers native language, so if your printer does
not grok postscript you still need some kind of filter. However, most
printers, if not all, can print normal ascii text.
I have no idea what capabilities the HP OfficeJet has, but to me it
still seems like ghostscript or something else is needed to convert your
output to a suitable format for the printer.
/Alexander
