Re: How to print? (Xerox DocuPrint C15)
Erm one thing I noticed reading that was the first half made reference to
lp0, whereas the printcap referes to lp1.
Cheers,
Corey Popelier
http://members.dingoblue.net.au/~pancreas
Work Email: copo@commerce.wa.gov.au
On Mon, 10 Jul 2000, Horacio MG wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> (please, Cc: the answer to me as I'm not on the list)
>
> just got this new brand printer, and I'm trying to get something printed
> with it, but never configured a printer before now.
>
> The printer is recognized, as advertised by the relevant parts of dmesg:
>
> parport0: PC-style at 0x378 [SPP,ECP,ECPEPP,ECPPS2]
> parport0: detected irq 7; use procfs to enable interrupt-driven
> operation.
> parport0: Printer, Xerox DocuPrint C15
>
> lp0: using parport0 (polling).
>
>
> I had lpr installed, and have just installed several other programs
> (Aladdin Ghostscript). Then went to read the relevant howtos, but I
> can't see it clear enough.
>
> I've tried to print a postscript file from 'gv', and also tried a
> simpler 'man man | col -b | lpr', but all I get is those jobs in the
> spool:
>
> $ lpq
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
> Rank Owner Job Files Total Size
> 1st horacio 2 /home/horacio/tmp/phakic.ps 496596 bytes
> 2nd horacio 5 (standard input) 23645 bytes
>
> and the status is:
>
> $ lpc status
> lp:
> queuing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> 2 entries in spool area
> waiting for lp to become ready (offline ?)
>
> Ok, so there must be something I haven't done... sure, I haven't set the
> environment variable in .profile. According to the howtos this should
> be set as:
>
> PRINTER="printer_name"; export PRINTER
>
> Ah, but what's printer_name? Is it perhaps that I have to make a
> symlink in /dev/ to /dev/lp0 (say, /dev/xerox -> /dev/lp0), and then:
>
> PRINTER="xerox"; export PRINTER
>
> or?
>
> Also, I didn't apply any changes to /etc/printcap, so the only
> uncommented lines are:
>
> lp|Generic dot-matrix printer entry:\
> :lp=/dev/lp1:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> :df=/etc/filter.ps:\
> :tf=/etc/filter.pcl:\
> :af=/var/log/lp-acct:\
> :lf=/var/log/lp-errs:\
> :pl#66:\
> :pw#80:\
> :pc#150:\
> :mx#0:\
> :sh:
>
> should I then change "Generic" by "xerox"? And how about the
> "dot-matrix" stuff? My printer is a deskjet!
>
> In case it's of any importance, my /var/spool/lpd/lp/ dir looks:
>
>
> total 520
> 1 drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 jul 10 17:47 ./
> 1 drwxrwxr-x 5 root lp 1024 jul 10 16:08 ../
> 1 -rw-r----x 1 root lp 4 jul 10 17:47 .seq
> 1 -rw-rw---- 1 daemon lp 102 jul 10 17:15 cfA002AL6s9Ty
> 1 -rw-rw---- 1 daemon lp 72 jul 10 17:47 cfA005An49Sei
> 488 -rw-rw---- 1 horacio lp 496596 jul 10 17:15 dfA002AL6s9Ty
> 25 -rw-rw---- 1 horacio lp 23645 jul 10 17:47 dfA005An49Sei
> 1 -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4 jul 10 17:15 lock
> 1 -rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 43 jul 10 17:15 status
>
>
> where the file lock is a number... meaning?
>
>
> *Please, send me a Cc: as I am not subscribed*
>
>
> TIA
>
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> Horacio Anno MMDCCLIII A.U.C.
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