On Tue, 17 Jul 2007, Fred Crowson wrote:
> Bob Beck wrote:
> > I used to fight with such insanity constantly.
> > However since printers are frequently sold and shipped
> > with a basically undocumented interface, and more than half the time
> > these filter utilites are barely reverse engineered POS's I decided
> > long ago that fighting with them was counterprodocutive. easily 2/3 of
> > the time (depending on your printer model) they are unreliable at
> > best.
> > simple answer, postscript printers are cheap. find a printer that
> > speaks postscript and avoid all the nonsense. I got one (LexMark
> > C510) a year and a half ago for $325 CDN that speaks postscript and
> > talks to my print spooler on ethernet, and most of my printer woes
> > went away.
>
> Sorry to hi-jack this thread - but I'm currently fighting with a Lexmark C500n
> - when talking lpd over the network to it, it always resets the connection
> without printing the job.
>
> The printer does have lpd enabled - but I've not managed to get it working
> could you enlighten me :~)
>
> My printcap and log message from /var/log/lpd-errs follows:
>
> x41:fred ~> cat /etc/printcap
> # $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
>
> #lp|local line printer:\
> # :lp=/dev/lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
>
> #rp|remote line printer:\
> # :lp=:rm=printhost:rp=lp:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
>
> rp|c500|laser|lexmark:\
> :lp=:\
> :rm=c500.crowsons.net:\
> :rp=ps:\
> :sd=/var/spool/C500:\
> :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> x41:fred ~> lpr -Plaser which.ps
> x41:fred ~> tail -2 /var/log/lpd-errs
> Jul 17 18:14:36 x41 lpd[18903]: x41.crowsons.net requests printjob laser
> Jul 17 18:14:39 x41 lpd[18903]: laser: lost connection
> x41:fred ~>
Try surpressing the burst page header: add ``sh''.
-Otto
