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From: noni4737@hgc.edu (walter noniewicz)
Subject: Output problems with parallel printer. How do I fix?
Message-ID: <1994Jul16.014916.21211@merlin.hgc.edu>
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Reply-To: noni4737@hgc.edu (walter noniewicz)
Organization: The Hartford Graduate Center
Date: Sat, 16 Jul 1994 01:49:16 GMT
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I am having problems getting my HP Laserjet II working. It is connected
to the parallel port. It isn't doing carriage returns nor being reset
after a print job. Is it up to me to write a filtering program? If so,
how do I implement it. I also have an Adobe Postscript cartriage and I
would like to use that also. So far I've been just piping it through
/dev/lpt0 which is OK but I'd like to be a 'real' Unix user :-) Here is
what happened:
The test file contained:
This is my file.
This is another line of the same file.
First I altered the printcap as follows:
lp|local line printer:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
And all I got was gibberish. Arbitrary characters strewn all over.
Next I altered the printcap as follows:
lp|local line printer:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:pl=#60:pw=#80:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:sh:
Also, I created the spooling directory:
cd /var/spool/lpd
mkdir lp
chown daemon.daemon lp
chmod 755 lp
I killed the daemon, deleted all other files under /var/spool/lpd, shutdown
the system and reset the printer. Then when I executed "lpr myfile" I
received:
This is my file.
This is another line of the same file.
When I executed "lpr myfile" again, I received:
This is my file.
This is
Many thanks,
Walter
noni4737@hgc.edu