Hi there,
I’ve made a little progress talking to my network printer and I can now print a single postscript document. Unfortunately lpd stops at this point.
To print something I have to:
slay lpd
print required page as postscript to a file
edit the file and delete the line containing “setpagedevice”
lpr -P se file.ps (wait 30secs) lpr: connect: Connection timed out
jobs queued, but cannot start daemon.
lpd
after lpd is (re)started it emptys the que and out pops my printed page.
If I want to print again I have to repeat the above process.
obviously this is a very slow a painful process. There must be an easier way.
pidin reports: “1916959 1 /lpd/nto/x86/o/lpd 10r SIGWAITINFO”
lprc status reports:
se:
queuing is enabled
printing is enabled
no entries
sending to senelec-hp4000.grace.cri.nz
my etc/printcap is:
se|remote-hp4000:
:sd=/usr/spool/output/se:
:mx#0:
:rm=senelec-hp4000.grace.cri.nz:
:rp=raw:
what is the relationship between lpd and spooler? can I use spooler to print to my network device? spooler works quite happily with a locally connected printer after I “spooler -c bjc.cfg -d /dev/par1 &”
Russ.