Printing problems
Hello,
I am running Debian potato and have set
up an SMB printer with Printtool
(3.53-1) and LPRng (3.2-11). The printer
is an HP LaserJet 8100 DN. It was
working fine until recently, I think a
package update may have caused the
problem. The problem is that when I send
a print job, nothing is printed. When I
run lpq this is the output I get:
Printer: lp@hchan
Queue: no printable jobs in queue
Status: removing job 'root@hchan+109' -
ABORT at 17:11:35.596
This is the contents of my
/etc/printcap:
# /etc/printcap: printer capability
database. See printcap(5).
# You can use the filter entries df, tf,
cf, gf etc. for
# your own filters. See the printcap(5)
manual page for further
# details.
# rlp|Remote printer entry
# :lp=
# :rm=remotehost
# :rp=remoteprinter
# :sd=/var/spool/lpd/remote
# :mx#0
# :sh
##PRINTTOOL3## SMB POSTSCRIPT 300x300
letter {} PostScript Default {}
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:\
:af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
:lp=/dev/null:
I noticed that there is no
/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter file. Could
this be the problem? I have tried
removing LPRng, Printtool and samba and
then re-installing the packages with no
success. I have also tried plain lpr
with no luck either? Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance.
--
Ho-Kuo Chan
Software Designer, Network Products
Group
Matrox Electronic Systems
Tel: (514) 822-6000 X2143
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