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Hi, I have just installed Potato Debian (first contact with linux), and I have some printing problems. Initially the BSD system didn’t run properly, but it ran, this took me to test cups 1.1.4, and it didn’t run as I expected, and I decided to uninstall cups, and install BSD Line Printer Spooling System Again, but now it doesn’t run neither properly nor not properly. My printer is an HP500C, and when I try to print something sending the output directly to /dev/lp0, the printer prints (bad due to staircase effect) , but when I use the printer daemon lpd, an error message appear: typed command (lpc, lpr, lpq, ...): lp : Unknown Printer If I use the –P argument , and specify the printer (lpr –P HP500C) , the error message is: lpr : HP500C: Unknown Printer After reading the two printer HOWTOs, and a lot of FAQs, I find that the problem is usually due a typing mistake in /etc/printcap, but I have check my printcap file moreless 53 times, and I don’t find an error, this is my printcap file: lp|HP500:\ :lp=/dev/lp0:\ :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\ :af=/var/log/lp_acct:\ :lf=/var/log/lp_errs:\ :if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filtre:\ # filtre file is a filter to prevent the staircase effect :pl#66:\ :pw#80:\ :pc#150:\ :mx#0:\ :sh:\ :sf: The permissions, and paths of the printer related files in my computer are: - /bin/lpr -rwxr-xr-x root.lp - /bin/lpq -rwxr-xr-x root.lp - /bin/lprm -rwxr-xr-x root.lp -/sbin/lpc -rwxr-xr-x root.lp - /sbin/lpd -rwxr-xr-x root.lp - /etc/printcap -rwxr-xr-x root.root - /var/spool/lpd/lp/.seq -rw-rwr-- root.lp - /var/spool/lpd/lp/lock -rw-rwr-- root.lp - /var/spool/lpd/lp/status -rw-rwr-- root.lp - /var/log/lp_errs -rw-rwr-- root.lp - /var/log/lp_acct -rw-rwr-- root.lp -/var/spool/lpd/lp/filtre -rwxr-xr-x root.lp -/var/spool/lpd/lp drwxrwxr-x root.lp As a additional information: The /dev/printer file appears in the gnome file manager: =printer 0 (size) last modification When I try to open it with gedit this errror message appear: “An error was encountered while opening the file “/dev/printer”. Please make sure the file exists. Due to my lack of experience with linux I don’t now if it’s normal. I have already tried without succees the command MAKEDEV lp. Could anybody help me? Many thanks |