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Date:      Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:07:02 +0200
From:      =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Frank_Wi=DFmann?= <frank.wissmann41@web.de>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Problems with printing
Message-ID:  <4BD08236.8060706@web.de>

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Hello, list!
I'm facing serious problems with my new bought HP ColorLaserjet 2025dn.
I plugged it in the right interface and it got detected. I did set up 
/etc/printcap as following:

p|local line printer|HPColorLaserjet:\
         :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
         :sh:\
         :mx#0:\
         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/HPColorLaserjet:\
#       :if=/usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl:\
         :if=/usr/local/libexec/psif:\
         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

where the filter "psif" is like this:

#!/bin/sh
IFS="" read -r first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : `\(..\)''

case "$first_two_chars" in
%!|\033%%)
         # %! or ESC% : PostScript job, print it.
         echo "$first_line" && cat && printf "\004" && exit 0
         exit 2
         ;;
*)
         # otherwise, format with enscript
         ( echo "$first_line"; cat ) \
           | /usr/local/bin/enscript -o - && printf "\004" && exit 0
         exit 2
         ;;
esac

When I now start printing from Firefox the printer does no job except of 
printing out the following message:

Unknown device: HPColorLaserjet
Unrecoverable error: undefined in .uninstalledpaged rand stack:\
defaultdevice

Later on I got this mail by the system:

Mail version 8.1 6/6/93.  Type ? for help.
"/var/mail/frank": 1 message 1 new
 >N  1 daemon@grissom.einun  Thu Apr 22 18:11  20/889   "lp printer job 
"<unknown>""
& 1
Message 1:
 From daemon@grissom.einundvierzig.org Thu Apr 22 18:11:44 2010
Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:11:44 +0200 (CEST)
From: Owner of many system processes <daemon@grissom.einundvierzig.org>
To: frank@grissom.einundvierzig.org
Subject: lp printer job "<unknown>"

Your printer job
could not be printed

/var/log/lpd-errs contains the following:

Apr 22 18:11:34 grissom lpd[7465]: lp: job could not be printed 
(cfA009grissom.einundvierzig.org)
Apr 22 18:11:44 grissom lpd[7465]: mail sent to user frank about job 
<unknown> on printer lp (FATALERR)

and "dmesg" says:

ugen1.3: <Hewlett-Packard> at usbus1
ulpt0: <Printer> on usbus1
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode
ulpt0: offline

What can I do now? Has anybody any clue for me where to look?

Greetings Frank

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and no one will move from the trail
wait till the leaders have spoken
it may be fair words shall prevail

(Rudyard Kipling)



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