Remote text printer and standard input woes and well the **** thing dont work... sorta,

["Kent Andersen" <debian@altazip.com>]

I have a tricky problem and dont really know where to go with it. I have a
HP direct Jet lan printer, now I have printcap setup so that it thinks its a
text printer. heres a clip of what printcap says.

Printcap file :

lp|hp:\
:lp=:\
:rp=text:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:rm=10.10.1.3:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:

when I print a text file using lpr. everything works, IE it prints. when
using some application to print which uses standard input, it just sits in
que and does nothing..

lpq command readout.

bill:lpq
bill: Warning: no daemon present
Rank   Owner      Job  Files                                 Total Size
1st    someuser   12   (standard input)                     2782
bytes

JetDirect lpd: no jobs queued on this port


so, basically is there some way to make it print using standard input? as a
footnote I tried using :rp=raw: and it would print standard input, but it
did the staircase problem..

I never thought I would have such a difficult time making linux print!
arrgh!

Thanks

Kent