Re: lprng help
On Mon, Nov 08, 1999 at 01:00:29PM -0800, tjm wrote:
> Hi. I'm trying to us lprng to print to a remote printer,
> an HP870, on an nt network. nt is running the tcp/ip
> print services and I can get plain text to print just fine.
> However, it seems that the if= is not being used for
> other document formats.
>
> The printcap file is this:
>
>
> hp870|filt-Remote hp870 printer entry
> :rm=192.168.1.1
> :rp=hp870
> :if=/etc/magicfilter/dj550c-filter
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote870
> :mx#0
> :sh
>
> checkpc shows file permissions are ok. The docs say this
> should work, and it does send everything to the printer,
> but without the filtering.
>
> Using Debian2.1, 2.0.36 kernel and magicfilter 1.2-28 and
> lprng 3.5.2-1.3. lpq shows the printer on the nt machine.
>
> Any suggestions?
Just last night I happened upon this very problem. http://bugs.debian.org/47899
has some useful information--seems that you need to add the lpr_bounce option
to the printcap file. I'm not a lprng expert, but this worked for us last
evening.
HTH,
James
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