On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:00:29PM -0800, tjm wrote: > Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer, > an HP870, on an nt network. nt is running the tcp/ip > print services and I can get plain text to print just fine. > However, it seems that the if= is not being used for > other document formats. > > The printcap file is this: > > > hp870|filt-Remote hp870 printer entry > :rm=192.168.1.1 > :rp=hp870 > :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter > :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote870 > :mx#0 > :sh > > checkpc shows file permissions are ok. The docs say this > should work, and it does send everything to the printer, > but without the filtering. > > Using Debian2.1, 2.0.36 kernel and magicfilter 1.2-28 and > lprng 3.5.2-1.3. lpq shows the printer on the nt machine. > > Any suggestions?
Just last night I happened upon this very problem. http://bugs.debian.org/47899 has some useful information--seems that you need to add the lpr_bounce option to the printcap file. I'm not a lprng expert, but this worked for us last evening. HTH, James