Ever since I installed Debian slink, I have not been able to print. I had been
using Magicfilter under the previous version with no problems. Now, I can
print, as root, if I send directly to /dev/lp1, but anything else fails.
I had uninstalled and reinstalled everything associated with the printer, so I
assume the permissions on lpr and magicfilter were correct; at any rate, they
show the same permissions I had before I installed slink.
So, I created my own filter, and tried printing using the filter. I can still
print if I use the commands in the filter and direct the output to /dev/lp1.
But if I try to print using lpr, the printer doesn't print, and I get a mail
message from "daemon" with the subject line "lp printer job <title>" which
states thatthe job in question did not print. The lpr.log shows the same thing.
The filters I created are in /usr/local/bin which is owned by root:staff, they
are set to mode 755, and they are owned by root:root (I also tried setting them
to root:lp). The printcap entry for the printer is (this is as created by
Magicfilter, except that I changed the filter file used):
lp|hpdj722|HP Deskjet 722c:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hpdj722:\
:pw#80:pl#66:px#1440:mx#0:\
:if=/usr/local/bin/ps.if:\
:af=/var/log/lp-acct:lf=/var/log/lp-errs:
I am not able to print without a filter, as the printer is an HP 722c, and
requires a special program (pbm2ppa) to create the output the printer
understands.
Can anyone tell me what is going wrong here?
Steve Martin
