I am trying to get printing services to work under woody. I've
installed LPRng and apsfilter.
An earlier error message indicated that (at least) the printcap file
had an error.
> > Based upon the kind advice of Steffen E., I installed apsfilter (and
> > associated packages). The Test Page prints from apsfilterconfig just
> > great.
<snip of previous troubleshooting>
> Additionly, there seems to be somthiung wrong with the printername:
> > hl1240|laserjet;r=600x600;q=high;c=full;p=letter;[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> It should be 'hl1240' only! Are you sure, you are using current woody
> packages? I remember having this problem earlier. If you are sure, your
> problems are not fixed in current woody packages report about the
> problem on debian-kde list. They will know more about KDE cups as well.
Yes, I am using woody as of about an hour ago.
I went and reran /usr/share/apsconfigure/SETUP, and am now using the
hl1250 driver. The test page printed *beautifully*, but I still got an
error message when printing.
I then manually editted /etc/printcap, changing the semi-colon ( ; )
after hl1250 to a colon ( : ). That fixed one error message. The error
message now reads:
------------------
<snip>
Status Information: sending job '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' to
lp|[EMAIL PROTECTED] connecting to 'localhost',attempt 1 connected to
'localhost' requesting printer lp|[EMAIL PROTECTED] job
'family @localhost+680' transfer to lp|[EMAIL PROTECTED] failed error
"NONZERO RFC1179 ERROR CODE FROM SERVER' with ack 'ACK_FAIL'
sending str '^Blp|hl1250 to lp|[EMAIL PROTECTED] error msg: 'spool queue
for 'lp_hl1250 does not exist on server localhost' error msg:
'non-existent printer or you need to run 'checkpc -f''
I ran checkpc -f; it gave no response.
So...I think I'm making progress, but haven't gotten there yet! Do I
need to do something special to set up a spool queue?
> Anyway, your printer system should be set up correctly now. Try to print
> something using lpr directly on a postscript file or a2ps.
I did a $ lpr printtest.ps
--and it printed all but the first line! (Albeit in the wrong font!)
> Make sure you have set the papersize correctly in /etc/papersize and
> /etc/a2ps.cfg (or something similar).
Done: set for letter.
Thanks again, Steffen. I appreciate the help you've given. Any other
ideas?
James
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