Printing woes. {was Re: AAARRRGGGGHHHH! How does one set up woody to talk to an HP Deskjet 882C printer?}
On Sun, 27 Jun 2004 20:00:20 +0200, "Jacob S."
<stormspotter@6texans.net> wrote:
>the softrat <softrat@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>> >Jacob S. wrote:
>> >>Cups will let you administer your own printer. Make sure to use the
>> >root>username and password when it prompts for it.
>> >>
It's a lie! :-) CUPS admin rejects all of my advances. Tells me that
I am not authorized.
>>
>> I see now that I am getting a *Fatal Error* at startup time:
>>
>> "Fatal error - Cannot bind to lpd port '515'"
>
>Ah, that's some helpful information. Do you perhaps have lpd running in
>the background or something?
Apparently, yes.
> (ps ax | grep lpd will let you check that).
>Also, "netstat -nvl --program | grep 515" when run as root will show you
>what your machine thinks is listening on port 515.
>
>On my machine, it says inetd is listening on 515, which indeed it should
>be. It then calls cups when a print job starts comin' down the queue.
>
Now, yes (I REMOVED 'lprng' completely)
>
>hmm... Didn't you say it was working except for stair-stepped text once
>before? Did you change something since then?
>
Yeah: lots of things. For one, I added CUPS. Used to be lprng.
BTW, I did a test of raw printing directly to the printer (no
spooling):
cat stuff | gdffilter > /dev/lp0
Works fine! 'gdffilter' changes 'line feed' to 'CRLF'.
However the CUPS spoller just hangs, waiting for something according
to the debug messages. (It says that the server is 'busy'.)
>Jacob
the softrat
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