Re: er - how to print?
On Sun, 22 Aug 1999, Martin Waller wrote:
> My father-in-law just hgave me an OKI OL600ex laser printer.
I have an OkiPage 10ex that emulates a LaserJet 5. Your OKI might emulate
a LaserJet of some sort also.
> Doing any prinitng (e.g. cat afile.txt > /dev/lp or echo hello > /dev/lp
> does nothing - lpq just says:
>
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline?)
> <the jobs waiting>
I had a similar problem this morning (don't remember the message) and it
turned out that the lpd daemon was not running. I had no idea WTF made it
stop running, as it was working the night before. Anyway, these commands
might be useful:
/etc/init.d/lpd start
/etc/init.d/lpd stop
/etc/init.d/lpd restart
I recommend you use magicfilterconfig to set it up. I happen to be using
the ljet2p (LaserJet IIP) filter because I was too lazy to change when I
got this printer. It didn't break, so I didn't fix it!
Anyway, I think your OKI might emulate some form of LaserJet, so you might
want to try magicfilter with the various ljet filters. Also, make sure
you're telling it the right port. I think mine is /dev/lp0.
Hope this helps,
Patrick
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