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Date:      Mon, 06 Aug 2001 16:52:00 +0200
From:      Christoph Sold <so@i-clue.de>
To:        George Genovezos <ggenovez@hotmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Printer problems -- lpr: lp: unknown printer
Message-ID:  <3B6EAF10.111FEE77@i-clue.de>
References:  <F136eolj8Jecd92bXCH00000c28@hotmail.com>

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George Genovezos wrote:
> 
> Ok. I'm getting ready to throught this printer out the window. & no you cant
> wait outside. I want to see it splat ;)
> 
> Here is the skinny on thir prob.
> 
> Freebsd 4.3 stable
> Lexmark z22

Have a look at the _proprietary_ Linux driver. See
http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=327401 for more
info.

> cat /etc/printcap
> 
> lp | lexmark | Lexmark Printer:
> :lp=/dev/lpt0:
> :mx#0:px#0:ph#0:sh:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd.lexmark:
> 
> [snip]
> 
> Any hints or do I watch the printer go splat?

Have a look at current ghostscript status at www.ghostscript.com --
that's the way to have unsupported printers get to print.

HTH
-Christoph Sold

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