Re: HP LaserJet 5L - cannot print postscript from cmd line
On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 08:57 +0200, deloptes wrote:
> michael wrote:
>
> > Folks, I've tried and tried but have failed to get my HP LaserJet 5L,
> > connected by parallel port, to print postscript from the command line.
> > It will print a page from say iceweasel but just isn't having
> > lpr test.ps
> > do the expected thing - rather it prints out the postscript file line by
> > line by line.
> >
> > This is under Debian Lenny (amd64) on a new build on my SATA HDD. Irony
> > is I did have it working on Lenny (amd64) previously with my old IDE
> > HDD. I've compared the two but can't see what differs.
> >
> > I'm not quite sure what info is best to send, but hopefully the below
> > will help. All help appreciated. Thanks, Michael
>
> I'm using the same printer model in debian. Are you trying to print from
> local or from a remote desktop. You mentioned parallel port, so may be
> local.
> My printer is actually connected via ussb-parallel, but it doesn't matter.
> I also used lenny until few weeks ago and yes the driver used was the
> foomatic ljet4 (as I remember well).
>
> You don't need anything in the printcap except the defaults that are put
> there by cups
> You better look to configure cups right.
>
> The other thing is that I have installed cups-lpd or lpr I don't remember.
>
> what does lpstat -a says?
>
> >
> > Script started on Wed 15 Sep 2010 22:36:40 BST
> > ]0;mkb@amd64: ~ mkb@amd64:~$ lpoptions
> > media=A4 sides=one-sided finishings=3 copies=1 job-hold-until=no-hold
> > job-priority=50 number-up=1 auth-info-required=none job-sheets=none,none
> > printer-info printer-is-accepting-jobs=1 printer-is-shared=1
> > printer-location printer-make-and-model='HP LaserJet 5l Foomatic/hpijs,
> > hpijs 2.8.6b' printer-state=3 printer-state-change-time=1284585794
> > printer-state-reasons=none printer-type=135196
> > ]0;mkb@amd64: ~ mkb@amd64:~$ file /etc/printcap
> > /etc/printcap: symbolic link to `/var/run/cups/printcap'
> > ]0;mkb@amd64: ~ mkb@amd64:~$ cat /var/run/cups/printcap
> > # This file was automatically generated by cupsd(8) from the
> > # /etc/cups/printers.conf file. All changes to this file
> > # will be lost.
> > lp|laserjet|:rm=amd64.lan:rp=laserjet:
> > ]0;mkb@amd64: ~ mkb@amd64:~$ exit
> >
> > Script done on Wed 15 Sep 2010 22:37:07 BST
>
> on the remote machine with kde3(lenny)
> lpoptions
> copies=1 job-hold-until=no-hold job-priority=50 number-up=1 finishings=3
> auth-info-required=none job-sheets=none,none printer-info='HP LaserJet 5L'
> printer-is-accepting-jobs=1 printer-is-shared=1 printer-location='Home
> Office (*******)' printer-make-and-model='HP LaserJet 5L Foomatic/ljet4
> (recommended)' printer-state=3 printer-state-change-time=1282890233
> printer-state-reasons=none printer-type=8531972 _kde-filters=true
>
> on the host (kde4/sid)
>
> lpoptions
> _kde-filters=true auth-info-required=none copies=1
> device-uri=usb://HP/LaserJet%205L finishings=3 job-hold-until=no-hold
> job-priority=50 job-sheets=none,none marker-change-time=0 number-up=1
> printer-commands=AutoConfigure,Clean,PrintSelfTestPage printer-info='HP
> LaserJet 5L' printer-is-accepting-jobs=true printer-is-shared=true
> printer-location='Home Office (*******)' printer-make-and-model='HP
> LaserJet 5L Foomatic/ljet4 (recommended)' printer-state=3
> printer-state-change-time=1282890233 printer-state-reasons=none
> printer-type=8531972
> printer-uri-supported=ipp://192.168.40.40:631/printers/HP_LJ_5L
It is local on this machine's parallel port (I've just been in the habit
of lpr rather than lp but will that matter?). My lpstat -a gives
$ lpstat -a
laserjet accepting requests since Wed 15 Sep 2010 22:23:14 BST
and I know it's connected okay (it just prints the p/s file rather than
interprets it)
Is there any file to show re cups config?
One other diff I have between old and new is old=gnome and new is SLIM,
but I can't see what that would matter (although you have
-kde-filters=true so I'm wondering if some filtering is missing?)
Thanks, Michael
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