Return to BSD News archive
Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.Hawaii.Edu!news.uoregon.edu!hunter.premier.net!hammer.uoregon.edu!arclight.uoregon.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!howland.erols.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!newsfeeder.gi.net!usenet.bridge.com!usenet
From: mhughes@bridge.com (Michael Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing
Date: 1 Nov 1996 17:10:24 GMT
Organization: Bridge Information Systems, Inc.
Lines: 21
Message-ID: <55dau0$btd@usenet.bridge.com>
References: <55d0jc$btd@usenet.bridge.com>
<55d5nm$4g@fridge-nf0.shore.net>
NNTP-Posting-Host: 167.76.36.76
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
X-Newsreader: knews 0.9.8
In article <55d5nm$4g@fridge-nf0.shore.net>,
nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan) writes:
> Michael Hughes (mhughes@bridge.com) wrote:
>: I am having problems printing to my laser printer. If I connect my laser
>: printer to my computer and try to print something, nothing happens. If I do
>: lpq, it tells my printer is off line. No it I connect my dot martix printer
>: to the same port, it works. The laser printer works on this port from DOS.
>: Can anyone help me out?
>
> Is lpd running? What's in your /etc/printcap? Do you have an entry
> for your laser printer?
Yes lpd is running. I am using the same printcap entry. All I am doing is
moving the printer cable from the dot matix printer to the laser printer. If
the cable is on the dot printer, it works. Now move cable and print the same
thing, nothing. Do lpq and it says printer is off line.
>
> Nate P
> nvp@shore.net
>