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From: lliu@u.washington.edu (Le-Chin Eugene Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: [FreeBSD] printing problem ?
Date: 5 Jun 1994 19:21:06 GMT
Organization: University of Washington
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Summary: strange status for lp

Hi there,

   I just installed FreeBSD 1.1 Release and I can't get the printer working.
I'm using the same printcap which I used in 1.1 Beta and no problem. I can
submit the job and the job is queued but I got a strange status for the
printer:

wait for lp to become ready (offline ?)

The printer is absolutely on line. Since I can print under DOS, there
shouldn't be a cable problem, either. I tried to kill lpd and started a
new one. Didn't help. Can anyone tell me what's wrong with it? Thanks.
Here is my hardware configuration:

386DX, 25MHz, 16MB RAM, NPX present, two IDE HDs Western Digital 340 and
Maxtor 7120, printer: Canon BJ-200e

(When I was using 1.1 Beta, the same setting worked fine.)

Eugene Liu