Printcap entry for serial printer on Digi serial port server

From: mwburden (mwburden_at_onyxprism.com)
Date: 01/18/05

  • Next message: Alexander Ackermann: "Re: Printcap entry for serial printer on Digi serial port server" 
    Date: 18 Jan 2005 06:37:40 -0800

    Good morning,

    I have a number of serial printers attached to Digi TS16 serial port
    servers using the Digi RealPort driver. If I cat > /dev/ttyD1001s
    my output prints perfectly.

    I used sysman to create a print queue using this device, and used lpc
    up to start the queue. Jobs submitted to the new printer remain in
    the queue and do not print.

    I tried copying the "seial printer" section from the FAQ and posting it
    into my /etc/printcap in place of the entry for the new printer, with
    the same results.

    Print queues for non-local printers are working fine.

    I've been able to come close to getting this to work by using an output
    filter script that simply cats standard input to /dev/ttyD1001s, and
    set the device for the printer queue to /dev/null, but this has some
    obvious drawbacks (lpstat -v won't show the correct device, for
    example.)

    Does anyone know why cat can send output to the device with no
    problem, but lpd can't?

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