Date: Sat, 8 Apr 2000 19:55:40 -0700 (PDT) From: Jeff Gray <jwg2@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: printer help please Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.10.10004081935370.55864-100000@adsl-63-201-55-220.dsl.snfc21.pacbell.net>
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Appeciate some advice on how to get my print output working again.
Running 3.3. Have an Epson Stylus 850 Injet printer that was working in
ascii mode. That is, I could print from emacs with no difficulty. Worked
just fine but I could not leave well enough alone <g>.
Decided it would be good to get postscript printing working.
It now appears that information is not getting to the spooler.
1. installed apsfilter.
2. ran the test protocol and got a beautiful tiger printout; probably used
up half and ink cartride :-)
3. finished the setup and decided to first test ascii
could not print from the buffer in emacs.
as root,
lpd
lpc up lp1 lp2 lp3 lp4 lp5
these are the printers in /etc/printcap
did the above in response to getting messages that printers
were not running.
4. If I try and print from emacs the bottom of the screen says,
Spooling... done
the output of lpq is blank so there is no pending job
> lpq
no entries
If I try from the command line
lptest 20 5 |lpr
[as in Greg's book]
nothing happens, no error message, nada.
If I go to Netscape and save a page using save as page.ps and then
try
lpr page.ps
again, nothing
My /etc/printcap follows my name. It was created by apsfilter.
Advice appreciated.
Thanks
jeff
# LABEL apsfilter
# apsfilter setup Sat Apr 8 18:48:39 PDT 2000
#
# APS_BASEDIR:/usr/local/apsfilter
#
#
ascii|lp1|uniprint--ascii-mono|uniprint ascii mono:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--ascii-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp2|uniprint--auto-mono|uniprint auto mono:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-mono:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-mono/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-mono/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--auto-mono:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp3|uniprint--ascii-color|uniprint ascii color:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--ascii-color/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--ascii-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
lp|lp4|uniprint--auto-color|uniprint auto color:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-color:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-color/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint--auto-color/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--auto-color:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
#
raw|lp5|uniprint--raw|uniprint auto raw:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw:\
:lf=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw/log:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/uniprint-raw/acct:\
:if=/usr/local/apsfilter/filter/aps-uniprint--raw:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
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