On Tue, 2010-09-21 at 19:57 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
>
> > Can somebody point me to some information about what to write into
> > /etc/printcap on a FreeBSD machine for a Laserjet that is connected though
> > CUPS
On Tue, 21 Sep 2010, Dick Hoogendijk wrote:
Can somebody point me to some information about what to write into
/etc/printcap on a FreeBSD machine for a Laserjet that is connected though
CUPS on an OpenSolaris server?
It's not clear how that printer is connected. If it's on t
Dick,
I'm not sure if this will help you, but here's what I did on my
network to print directly to an HP LaserJet on my LAN.
Pick a name (and a few convenient aliases) for the printer, and put
them in the /etc/printcap file.
hp|officehp:\
:sh:\
:rm=192.168.1.50:\
:sd=/var/spool/lp
Can somebody point me to some information about what to write into
/etc/printcap on a FreeBSD machine for a Laserjet that is connected
though CUPS on an OpenSolaris server?
Linux/Windows computers automatically "see" this printer because it is
"broadcasted", but my Free
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Graham Bentley wrote:
Could anyone using a network laser printer post
their working /etc/printcap entry?
lp:\
:lp=:\
:sh:\
:mx#0:\
:rm=laser:\
:rp=raw:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd/lp:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/psif
On Sat, 24 Apr 2010, Graham Bentley wrote:
Could anyone using a network laser printer post
their working /etc/printcap entry?
Having mixed results getting a Kyocera FS-1010
working consistently on both ascii & ps
This has been working for many years, 4.x through 8.0:
lp|HP ColorLase
"Graham Bentley" wrote:
> Could anyone using a network laser printer post
> their working /etc/printcap entry?
>
> Having mixed results getting a Kyocera FS-1010
> working consistently on both ascii & ps
These entries work here on 6.1:
lp|Samsung ML-257
Hi All,
Could anyone using a network laser printer post
their working /etc/printcap entry?
Having mixed results getting a Kyocera FS-1010
working consistently on both ascii & ps
Thanks!
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Here's mine - been working for years:
lp|snow|snowball|lj|ps|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\
:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:\
:mx#0:\
:lp=:rm=snowball:rp="auto":
The printer's hostname is snowball, resolved via /etc/hosts at first and
now via internal DNS.
This printer unde
On Thu, 11 Jun 2009, dacoder wrote:
has anybody got an example of a printcap file w/ an entry for a
standalone network printer? i'd be grateful for one.
Here's mine - been working for years:
lp|snow|snowball|lj|ps|HP ColorLaserJet 4550N:\
:sh:\
:sd=/var/spool/
dacoder wrote:
> has anybody got an example of a printcap file w/ an entry
> for a standalone network printer?
This is for a printer that understands lpd protocol natively,
and it presumes that you will send it only languages that it
understands natively. (This one happens to be smart eno
do printer, attached "locally" :)
--TJ
On 6/10/09, dacoder wrote:
> has anybody got an example of a printcap file w/ an entry for a standalone
> network printer? i'd be grateful for one.
>
> thx.
>
> david co
has anybody got an example of a printcap file w/ an entry for a standalone
network printer? i'd be grateful for one.
thx.
david coder
network engineer emeritus
ntt/verio
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Hello:
I think I found the answer. The problem is you don't
want to use the printf command with a hex value, like I
was trying; you want to use the printf "\f" syntax
instead. See man 1 printf.
The last line then becomes:
echo "$first_line" && cat && printf "\f" && exit 0
and now it works just fi
Hello:
Thank you for your reply. My if filter follows:
#!/bin/sh
#
# kx-p1124 - Print Ghostscript-simulated Postscript on
a Panasonic KX-P1124
# installed in /usr/local/bin/kx-p1124
#
# Read first two characters of the file
#
IFS="" read -r first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\
On Fri, 27 May 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could someone suggest a way to add a form feed to the
end of a print document in LPR? I have a printer that
doesn't eject the last page when the print job is
finished; and I can't seem to find this in the manual.
My guess is I need to add it to my pr
subsystem. I'm not sure if it would go in the :if or
:of in the printcap or even how to add it (why I didn't respond
earlier) I haven't worked on the BSD spooler since FreeBSD 3.3 so I'm
a little rusty.
You might look at the printer, I've seen on some where you can add a
timeo
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I think you have to remove the :sh parameter in /etc/printcap
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Hello:
Could someone suggest a way to add a form feed to the
end of a print document in LPR? I have a printer that
doesn't eject the last page when the print job is
finished; and I can't seem to find this in the manual.
My guess is I need to add it to my printer filter, but
its not clear to me wh
d modifying the printcap if=
> entry to take the file and save it as a file. That was a no go - I
> just got an error. Now I am thinking about just stopping the printer,
> which would spool the files in the spool directory. I still need
> to initiate execution of a program to grab those files a
At 3:33 PM -0500 4/3/03, David Banning wrote:
what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix
printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format
and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed
out.
Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap
what I would like to do is have windows boxes print to a unix
printer filter which would convert the file into pdf format
and put the file into a directory where it could be emailed
out.
Anyone tried this? First off, I tried modifying the printcap if=
entry to take the file and save it as a
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