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Re: repost - printing - help please



On Tue, 2002-11-12 at 00:54, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2002 at 12:28:38AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> > On Mon, 2002-11-11 at 23:44, Sandip P Deshmukh wrote:
> > > hp deskjet 710c printer is connected to it on lpt1 (i am using windows nomenclature)
> > Just a general guess, but:
> > apt-get install magicfilter pnm2ppa
> 
> did that. now, although i have lpr installed, i do not have lpr entry in /etc/init.d!
I dont either.  I have an entry for lpd in init.d 

> what to do now? 
> 
try to print something? 
echo "test" | lpr

failing that did you configure magicfilter? or your printcap file?  I
used /sbin/magicfilterconfig and my printer worked like magic(oh no a
pun!!!). 

-Scott Henson
(I really need to setup my .signature dont I? oh well...)



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