Steve Philp wrote:
>
> Dennis Robertson wrote:
> >
> > -Hello All,
> >
> > I am new to the group and new to Mandrake6.1. I used Caldera
> > OpenLinux(COL)2.2 for the past 3 months before concluding, along with
> > the rest of the Linux support group here in Noosa, Australia, that there
> > was so much divergence occurring between Linux distributions that we
> > should get with the strength- RedHat -and concluded that Mandrake
> > offered the most potential within the RedHat family.
> >
> > One of the real pains with Linux is printing. I have an Epson Stylus
> > Color 600 which is allegedly supported by Linux, especially RedHat. In
> > COL it took about 2 weeks to find a printfilter, download it and get it
> > to work. When I saw Printtool and its direct support for my printer I
> > thought I had it made. I used "print directly using lpr" to test all
> > three modes and got the message "test page printed to queue lp0".
> > I was even happier when alltests produced a perfect result.
> > Then I found I was unable to print from any file or application.
> >
> > If I try to print a file using the printer icon or the file print
> > command I see: "printing:lpr '(file name)'&" but nothing happens. If I
> > check status in /var/spool/lpd/lp0 I see "lp0 is ready and printing",
> > but it is not.
> >
> > /etc/printcap looks like:
> >
> > ##PRINTOOL3## LOCAL uniprint NAxNA a4 [} U_EpsonStylusColor stc600pl 1
> > lp0:\
> > : sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
> > : mx#0:\
> > : sh:\
> > :lp=/dev/lp0:\
> > : if=/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter
>
> [SNIP]
>
> > If I try to print from Netscape I use:
> >
> > Print to Printer, and get:
> >
> > Error message: Netscape sub process diagnostics
> > lpr:lp:unknown printer
>
> Okay, when you ran printtool, you named the printer lp0. Netscape is
> trying to print to a printer named lp. See the problem?
>
> Quick fix is to add 'lp|' to the lp0:\ line so it looks like:
>
> lp|lp0:\
>
> Or, you could edit the printer setup in Netscape to print to your
> printer named lp0.
>
> The file edit is probably the better of the two, since the second
> options would require modifying every printing application.
>
> --
> Steve Philp
> Network Administrator
> Advance Packaging Corporation
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Steve,
Eureka! You solved the problem. I can now print from Netscape and
files. Many thanks.
Karen - thanks for your input as well.
Regards.
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