On Mon, Apr 23, 2001 at 11:49:34 +1000, Michael Lake wrote:
> This is quick. When I changed over to debian from RH my printing setup
> is gone. No printcap file at all. Have looked for combinatios of
> printcfg printconfig etc commands in bins, looked on debian doc site,
> and SLUG archives retured 55 matches but didnt actually show any text
> (must be doing something wrong there).
personally, i did:
% apt-get install lprng
then
% apt-get install apsfilter
now, make sure lpr can communicate with your printer (echo
"hello" > /dev/lp0 or whatever your printer port is should do
the trick). if your printer prints out garbage, that's okay.
just make sure the lights flash on it or something.
after you've made sure that lpr can converse with your printer
(ignore the fact that the only thing you can print out at the
moment is plain text ...):
% apsfilterconfig
check the linux printing website (http://www.linuxprinting.org/)
to look up what driver your printer model needs.
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