Okay, I have the setup like you show and at least now the jobs show up in the queue, but nothing makes it to the printer. It's funny because I can change the one line in /etc/printcap to point to lpt0 instead of ulpt0 and it works. I have both parallel and USB cables connected in this test setup, but the server I want to move the printer back to only has USB. Something else that seems odd, when I rebooted and started lpd from the command line there are two instances of it showing up in the ps -ax output. Shouldn't only one be running? After reboot and restarting lpd, the job is in the queue but nothing is printing when using the USB connection. Sorry to be so much trouble. I thought this would be one of those things that would just start working.
--- On Fri, 2/26/10, Warren Block <[email protected]> wrote: From: Warren Block <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Printing via USB Port To: "Bill Tillman" <[email protected]> Cc: [email protected] Date: Friday, February 26, 2010, 1:54 PM On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Bill Tillman wrote: > Your answers are usually spot on but this is one of those difficult times > when the Windows and Linux guys at work laugh their asses off at me for being > such a FreeBSD die-hard. That's like laughing at a chef when fast food is available. > So I added the standard #!/bin/sh line to the beginning of the ps2pcl Doh. Time for me to create an article on this to avoid mistakes like that. > file and nothing printed, not even error messages about what happened. This probably means it works. The ps2pcl filter expects PostScript input; it doesn't auto-format like apsfilter. So format your print jobs in PS first. Many applications do that already (OpenOffice), or there are conversion programs like enscript (print/enscript-letter) for text. % enscript testfile.txt Will format testfile.txt into PS and send it to the lp printer. This works for me here--I reconnected my printer via USB to try it. -Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
