Date: Mon, 20 Mar 2000 21:37:47 PST From: "Joe Park" <hjjp76@hotmail.com> To: jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: printer ... almost there Message-ID: <20000321053747.42421.qmail@hotmail.com>
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The problem is solved : -)
For some reason, /etc/printcap was not being read so I just created new one
without any comments (just the settings) and it works wonderfully. I still
get one blank page added to every print job when I print from Samba but I
can live with that. (and eventually, I'll fix it)
Thank you for help.
Joe
>From: Jonathan Chen <jonc@logisticsoftware.co.nz>
>To: Joe Park <joepark@uclink4.berkeley.edu>
>CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
>Subject: Re: printer ... almost there
>Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 08:42:58 +1200
>
>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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