Getting lprng to /dev/lp1

["Julian S. Taylor" <julian@webaccess.net>]

Salutations,

I can shut doen lprng and cat /dev/motd to /dev/lp1 but when I turn on
lprng, it refuses to print and lpq shows:

Printer: ps@alpher  'indianpeaks'
 Queue: 1 printable job
 Server: pid 515 active
 Status: sleeping 10 secs before retry, starting sleep at 08:06:19
 Rank   Owner/ID                   Class Job  Files               Size
Time
1       julian@alpher+513             A  513 /etc/motd          429
08:06:19

What could be wrong with my configuration?

thanks,
Julian