Re: Printer help please!
bernard wrote:
> For the last three days I have been banging my head against the wall
> ("don't worry dear, its as pointy as ever it was" says my sympathetic
> girlfriend) trying to get my printer to work. I installed potato some
> time ago and tried to install cups, but didn't have much luck, so
> I stripped everything off and re-installed lprng. I then used apsfilter
> to configure things, the apsfilter printed a perfect test page but
> when I used lpr....nothing! I tried with printtool which printed a
> test ascii direct to the port but under lpr the printer muttered a
> bit and then stopped. lpq -L gives me the following
>
> bernard@debian:~$ lpq -L
> Printer: lp@debian
> Queue: no printable jobs in queue
> Status: accounting at start at 14:35:56.401
> Status: opening device '/dev/lp0' at 14:35:56.452
> Status: printing job 'root@debian+779' at 14:35:56.468
> Status: printing 'root@debian+779' starting OF at 14:35:56.468
> Status: printing data file 'dfA779debian', size 42 at 14:35:56.468
> Status: IF filter finished at 14:35:57.631
> Status: printing done 'root@debian+779' at 14:35:57.631
> Status: accounting at end at 14:35:57.631
> Status: finished 'root@debian+779', status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.631
> Status: subserver pid 5782 exit status 'JSUCC' at 14:35:57.636
> Status: lp@debian: job 'root@debian+779' printed at 14:35:57.637
> Status: job 'root@debian+779' removed at 14:35:57.639
>
>
>
> I can't see much wrong with the permissions-I'm currently operating
> root.
>
> bernard@debian:~$ ls -l /var/spool/lpd
> total 24
> drwx------ 2 daemon lp 4096 Jul 2 14:53 lp
> drwxr-xr-x 2 lp lp 4096 Jul 2 11:54 stcolor-a4-ascii-color
>
>
> debian:/home/bernard# ls -l /var/spool/lpd/lp
> total 28
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 1602 Jul 2 14:53 acct
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 control.lp
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root lp 35 Jul 2 13:56 filter -> /usr/share/printtool//master-filter
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 187 Jul 2 13:56 general.cfg
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 log
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 5 Jul 2 14:53 lp
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 346 Jul 2 13:56 postscript.cfg
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 0 Jul 2 13:56 status
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 2847 Jul 2 14:53 status.lp
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp 146 Jul 2 13:56 textonly.cfg
> -rw------- 1 daemon lp
>
> I would be pathetically crawlingly grateful to anybody who could assist. There is
> absolutely no shortage of additional information-three days worth-if required.
>
Frustrating when none reply, isn't?
Not an expert here, but i'm using pdq/xpd (tracking unstable =) with a stylus color 880 and works quite well
with the ghostscript stp driver. You don't mention your printer, but i will suggest, as a starting point,
www.linuxprinting.org (IIRC). About the permission, try adding your user to the "lp" group (no need to use
root)...
Andrea
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