Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:42:58 +1200 From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz> To: Joe Park <joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printer ... almost there Message-ID: <20000321084257.A48754@jonc.logisticsoftware.co.nz> In-Reply-To: <4.2.0.58.20000320003711.00cbe100@uclink4.berkeley.edu>; from joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu on Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:50:09AM -0800 References: <4.2.0.58.20000320003711.00cbe100@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
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On Mon, Mar 20, 2000 at 12:50:09AM -0800, Joe Park wrote:
> Hello,
>
> My printer now sort of works, but not completely. First, I looked at the
> log fie and I noticed that there were bunch of messages saying that there
> is no "/dev/lp" file. I thought in /etc/printcap file, ":lp=/dev/lpt0"
> line takes care of that, but I guess I was wrong. So I made a link by "#
> ln -s /dev/lpt0 /dev/lp".
This is strange. You may want to send the list the contents of
/etc/printcap. The most common config mistake here is forgetting about
the trailing '\'.
> Now, I can print from Win98 with samba but it keep add two pages-- one in
> the beginning and one at the end. I though the first page was header page,
> but adding or subtracting ":sh:" in printercap has no effect. And when I
> tried to print from the FreeBSD printer server machine, it only prints 3
> blank pages -- e.g. "lptest 20 5 | lpr" prints 3 blank page.
Dunno about the problem with Win98+samba, but the second problem
relates to staircasing effect described in the handbook. A script
file with the following, along with the appropriate if= entry in
/etc/printcap should take care of the the staircasing effect.
#!/bin/sh
awk '{ printf {"%s\r\n", $0}; }'
printf "\f"
Jonathan Chen
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