[LUNA] printing problems ....

[Bob Nance]

You need a postscript filter that will convert your text into postscript before sending it. I don’t know much postscript, but I do know that a PS program must start with a flag saying which version it is and it must end with a “show page” to make it print what it has received. If you’re using CUPS, it SHOULD do that for you. That’s probably what’s happening on the Linux computers.

Did you go look at the “/var/log/lpd-errs” files?

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  Bob Nance
  Novation Systems
  bob.nance at novationsys.com
  256-534-4620

On Aug 29, 2014, at 10:54 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net> wrote:

> 
> 
> I am trying to get printing working under FBSD 9.3. I cribbed printcap info from https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html#printing-quick-start & tried it out:
> 
> 
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:04am] 458 %  service lpd status
> lpd is running as pid 27062.
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:06am] 459 %  printf "From jaguar:\n1. This printer can print.\n2. This is the second line.\n" | lpr
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:36am] 460 %  lpq
> no entries
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:38am] 461 %  (tail printcap )
> #       :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> #
> # ... following cribbed from Athlon-cube, FC14 ;-) ....
> #
> # printer|Xerox Phaser 6130N:rm=jaguar.cfd.com:rp=printer:
> # Cups-PDF|Cups-PDF:rm=jaguar.cfd.com:rp=Cups-PDF:
> #
> # ... following cribbed from online FBSD LP docs ....
> #
> lp:lp=:rm=printer:rp=raw:sh:mx#0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:59am] 462 %  ping printer
> PING printer (192.168.0.24): 56 data bytes
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.638 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.632 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.623 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=3 ttl=255 time=0.634 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=4 ttl=255 time=0.631 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=5 ttl=255 time=0.640 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=6 ttl=255 time=0.769 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=7 ttl=255 time=0.622 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=8 ttl=255 time=0.758 ms
> 64 bytes from 192.168.0.24: icmp_seq=9 ttl=255 time=0.634 ms
> 
> --- printer ping statistics ---
> 10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
> round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.622/0.658/0.769/0.053 ms
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:49:41am] 463 %
> 
> 
> Nothing ever comes out of the printer, thought it does light up, it seems to know it got something .... The same printf stuff above works from the shell CLI on other Linux boxen (CUPS), so the printer can handle straight ASCII text .... TIA for any clues ....
> 
> 
> -- 
> 
> 	William A. Mahaffey III
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