Date: Mon, 01 May 2000 14:02:40 -0700 From: Kent Stewart <kstewart@3-cities.com> To: keith@mail.telestream.com Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: lptest Message-ID: <390DF0F0.38ABAA55@3-cities.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10005011355580.2219-100000@mail.telestream.com>
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keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > > Actualy, discoverd that printers work quite well if you have an ink cart. > in them. :) > Just have to figure out now how best to get a non-postscript printer to > print normaly. Haven't a clue as to how to get an Epson Stylus Photo EX > To print properly. I may be a day ahead of you there. I have ghostscript and ghostview installed and that is where I learned about lpc. You have to enable and disable the printer to get it to read the printcap file. I can print text to my Brother HL8e and HP 1120 & 1600 but postscript that don't do yet. The 10cpi output makes for terrible reading. Once I get one figured out, they should all work but it is coming bit by bit and I don't know what the full word size is :). Kent > > Keith > > ================================= > I here by change the name > of RedHat to RedSplat. > > Keith W. > At the helm <for better or worse> > ================================= > > On Mon, 1 May 2000, Kent Stewart wrote: > > > > > > > keith@mail.telestream.com wrote: > > > > > > I've been mucking about with a trying to get a printer rolling for a bit > > > now. I've read everything relating to it in > > > "The Complete FreeBSD 3rd edition" and can't get it to work. I keep > > > getting the following messages > > > > > > #] lptest > /dev/lpt0 > > > bash: /dev/lpt0: Device busy > > > #] > > > > > > Why would it tell me the device is busy? The status file for lpd gives > > > this message > > > > > > #] lptest 20 5 | lpr > > > #] cat status > > > waiting for lp to become ready (offline?) > > > > Do a man on lpc. Sometimes you have to do things like "lpc enable all" or to down and > > up the printer(s). > > > > Kent > > > > > #] > > > > > > Any ideas ? > > > > > > Keith > > > > > > ================================= > > > I here by change the name > > > of RedHat to RedSplat. > > > > > > Keith W. > > > At the helm <for better or worse> > > > ================================= > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > -- > > Kent Stewart > > Richland, WA > > > > mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com > > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html > > FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ > > > > SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME > > http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ > > > > Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR > > http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html > > -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA mailto:kstewart@3-cities.com http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ SETI(Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence) @ HOME http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/ Hunting Archibald Stewart, b 1802 in Ballymena, Antrim Co., NIR http://www.3-cities.com/~kstewart/genealogy/archibald_stewart.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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