Need help setting up printer
Hello.
I purchased a HP 812C printer yesterday and I've been trying to get it to
work with Potato, but have had no luck.
I've already read the Linux printer how-to and have done the following:
In /etc/printcap i've written
#LOCAL djet812C
lp|dj|deskjet:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/dj:\
:mx#0:\
:lp=/dev/lp:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/dj/filter:\
:sh:
The how-to states that all print jobs to the printer should be spooled
through /var/spool/lpd/dj. So I simply created a 'dj' directory in
/var/spool/lpd because there wasn't one there before.
/var/spool/lpd/dj/filter is a small perl script which the how-to guy wrote
to fix stair stepping text and it is:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while(<STDIN>)(chop $_; print "$_\r\n";};
print "\f"
Now that all that's out of the way. This is what happens: whenever I try to
run lpr as root to print a file, "myfile.txt" i get the following output:
root@io:~> lpr -P dj myfile.txt
root@io:~> lpq
Printer: lp@io 'deskjet'
Queue: 1 printable job
Server: pid 810 active
Unspooler: pid 811 active
Status: cannot open '/dev/lp' - 'Permission denied', attempt 1, sleeping 10
at 01:28:19.535
Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size Time
active root@io+809 A 809 myfile.txt 326
01:28:19
I can add and add print jobs but nothing ever prints.I've also tried
"cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp" as root but that does not work either. I have
played with the permissions on /dev/lp but that didn't seem to help. right
now permissions are:
root@io:~> ls -la /dev/lp*
-rw------- 1 root root 326 Oct 13 01:28 /dev/lp
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 0 Mar 3 1999 /dev/lp0
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 1 Mar 3 1999 /dev/lp1
crw-rw---- 1 root lp 6, 2 Mar 3 1999 /dev/lp2
I don't have a clue as to where to go from here. I've tried printing to
/dev/lp0, etc, but I get a "No such device" error message. If someone could
give me (and the rest of the group) some insight as to how to set up a
printer in Potato, it would be great. Thanks for your help.
Ed
ed@suffocate.org
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