On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Fred Crowson wrote: > Bob Beck wrote: > > I used to fight with such insanity constantly. > > However since printers are frequently sold and shipped > > with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time > > these filter utilites are barely reverse engineered POS's I decided > > long ago that fighting with them was counterprodocutive. easily 2/3 of > > the time (depending on your printer model) they are unreliable at > > best. > > simple answer, postscript printers are cheap. find a printer that > > speaks postscript and avoid all the nonsense. I got one (LexMark > > C510) a year and a half ago for $325 CDN that speaks postscript and > > talks to my print spooler on ethernet, and most of my printer woes > > went away. > > Sorry to hi-jack this thread - but I'm currently fighting with a Lexmark C500n > - when talking lpd over the network to it, it always resets the connection > without printing the job. > > The printer does have lpd enabled - but I've not managed to get it working > could you enlighten me :~) > > My printcap and log message from /var/log/lpd-errs follows: > > x41:fred ~> cat /etc/printcap > # $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $ > > #lp|local line printer:\ > # :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > > #rp|remote line printer:\ > # :lp=:rm=printhost:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > > rp|c500|laser|lexmark:\ > :lp=:\ > :rm=c500.crowsons.net:\ > :rp=ps:\ > :sd=/var/spool/C500:\ > :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs: > x41:fred ~> lpr -Plaser which.ps > x41:fred ~> tail -2 /var/log/lpd-errs > Jul 17 18:14:36 x41 lpd[18903]: x41.crowsons.net requests printjob laser > Jul 17 18:14:39 x41 lpd[18903]: laser: lost connection > x41:fred ~>
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