Hi,
(please, Cc: the answer to me as I'm not on the list)
just got this new brand printer, and I'm trying to get something printed
with it, but never configured a printer before now.
The printer is recognized, as advertised by the relevant parts of dmesg:
parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven
operation.
parport0: Printer, Xerox DocuPrint C15
lp0: using parport0 (polling).
I had lpr installed, and have just installed several other programs
(Aladdin Ghostscript). Then went to read the relevant howtos, but I
can't see it clear enough.
I've tried to print a postscript file from 'gv', and also tried a
simpler 'man man | col -b | lpr', but all I get is those jobs in the
spool:
$ lpq
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
1st horacio 2 /home/horacio/tmp/phakic.ps 496596 bytes
2nd horacio 5 (standard input) 23645 bytes
and the status is:
$ lpc status
lp:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
2 entries in spool area
waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
Ok, so there must be something I haven't done... sure, I haven't set the
environment variable in .profile. According to the howtos this should
be set as:
PRINTER="printer_name"; export PRINTER
Ah, but what's printer_name? Is it perhaps that I have to make a
symlink in /dev/ to /dev/lp0 (say, /dev/xerox -> /dev/lp0), and then:
PRINTER="xerox"; export PRINTER
or?
Also, I didn't apply any changes to /etc/printcap, so the only
uncommented lines are:
lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:df=/etc/filter.ps:\
:tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
:pl#66:\
:pw#80:\
:pc#150:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:
should I then change "Generic" by "xerox"? And how about the
"dot-matrix" stuff? My printer is a deskjet!
In case it's of any importance, my /var/spool/lpd/lp/ dir looks:
total 520
1 drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 jul 10 17:47 ./
1 drwxrwxr-x 5 root lp 1024 jul 10 16:08 ../
1 -rw-r----x 1 root lp 4 jul 10 17:47 .seq
1 -rw-rw---- 1 daemon lp 102 jul 10 17:15 cfA002AL6s9Ty
1 -rw-rw---- 1 daemon lp 72 jul 10 17:47 cfA005An49Sei
488 -rw-rw---- 1 horacio lp 496596 jul 10 17:15 dfA002AL6s9Ty
25 -rw-rw---- 1 horacio lp 23645 jul 10 17:47 dfA005An49Sei
1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 jul 10 17:15 lock
1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 43 jul 10 17:15 status
where the file lock is a number... meaning?
*Please, send me a Cc: as I am not subscribed*
TIA
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Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C.
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