"Karsten M. Self" <kmself@ix.netcom.com> writes: > I've also since discovered the ifhp package, which appears to be > designed to do pretty much what I'm asking for here, though there's > rather little guidance provided on how it's supposed to be used. > Printing in general's always been more or less a mystery to me. > Printing is in $STATE, I mess with configurations, and eventually > printer is in ( $STATE - 1 )**2. > > ...I did get sufficiently frustrated with the printcap(5) manpage that I
FWIW, it might be interesting to check out CUPS (has an lpr "emulator"). It works well with my LJ4V, although I didn't try the manual feed yet. The PPDs coming with CUPS might also give information about what codes to send. Cheers, Colin