Re: Configuring Printer Services

From: Warren Block (wblock_at_wonkity.com)
Date: 09/06/03 

Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2003 13:53:32 -0000

Mark Perreault <mcperreault2003@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am having some difficulty configuring printer services on my newly
> installed FreeBSD 5.0. I have followed the guidance in the printing
> section of the handbook at freebsd.org, and when I send text to the
> printer, the light flashes, but there is no output.

Press the form feed button on the printer, or send a form-feed character
(^L) to the printer: perl -e 'print chr(12)' > /dev/lpt0

> The printer is an HP Laserjet 1100 on the parallel port (/dev/lpt0).
> I have a filter (from the handbook) to take care of the CR/LF problem.
> Also of note, the logfile I have set up in /etc/printcap only has one entry
> in it - the starting of lpd.

Some of the low-end HP lasers are Winprinters; if this is one of those,
it doesn't have brains enough to process text, and you need a more
complicated setup as a print filter. 

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Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota * USA