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From: twang@orion.animal.uiuc.edu (Tianlin Wang)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: PLEASE HELP: DEClasser printing
Date: 31 Oct 1995 15:29:25 GMT
Organization: University of Illinois
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Message-ID: <475fcl$j5r@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu>
NNTP-Posting-Host: orion.animal.uiuc.edu
Keywords: printer postscript BSD
Recently, I purchased DEClasser 5100 printer. I hooked it up through
parallele port to my Pentium 100 with FreeBSD 2.1.0-950726-SNAP and
DOS installed. I set postscript as the default mode. Under DOS,
the printer works fine. This indicates that printer itself and
interface cable connection have no problem. Under BSD, however,
I cannot get postscript file out to printer. The problem is that
when I send a postscript file usng lpr try.ps, the computer send a
signal to printer that READY button in priter is brinking and
waiting. However, lpd never sends the queued job to the priter.
I notice lpd is running and I can use lpc successfully.
I would really appreciate any hints. I have already spent
two days on this problem with no solution. The following is my
printcap and the like
# @(#)printcap 5.3 (Berkeley) 6/30/90
lp|local DEClasser 5100:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
/usr/bin ll lp*
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 3022 Jul 27 03:50 lp
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 16384 Jul 27 03:50 lpq
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 20480 Jul 27 03:50 lpr
-r-sr-sr-x 1 root daemon 16384 Jul 27 03:50 lprm
/usr/sbin ll lpd
-r-xr-xr-x 1 bin bin 40960 Jul 27 03:50 lpd
/dev ll lp*
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 128 Aug 8 19:46 lpctl0
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 129 Aug 8 19:46 lpctl1
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 130 Aug 8 19:46 lpctl2
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 0 Oct 30 11:57 lpt0
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 1 Aug 8 19:46 lpt1
crw------- 1 root wheel 16, 2 Aug 8 19:46 lpt2
Best Regards
Tianlin Wang
Newsham Hybrids (USA) Inc. E-mail tianlin@iguana.ruralnet.net
P.O. Box 316 Phone (719) 829-4730 (office)