Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Hello,
On Mar 13 17:05 Rainer Lay wrote (shortened):
Johannes Meixner schrieb:
Try to circumvent it and use plain TCP socket connection, see the Suse Linux 10.0 Administration/Reference Manual file:///usr/share/doc/manual/suselinux-manual_en/manual/sec.drucken.prob.html "Troubleshooting a Network Printer or Print Server Box" I tried the plain TCP socket connection, with port 35 or port 9100 - nothing happend (YaST).
Did you try out "nmap" which is described in the Suse Linux 10.0 Administration/Reference Manual file:///usr/share/doc/manual/suselinux-manual_en/manual/sec.drucken.prob.html "Troubleshooting a Network Printer or Print Server Box" Yep: 80/tcp open http 139/tcp open netbios-ssn 515/tcp open printer 8081/tcp open blackice-icecap
80: configuration 139: smb (in case of an attached usb stick; i tried to access a samba printer there - no luck ;-) 515: lpd 8081: telnet configuration
If you must use the LPD protocol, try out various settings of the CUPS lpd backend, see the "CUPS Software Administrators Manual" "Configuring LPD Printing Options": http://localhost:631/sam.html#LPD_OPTIONS In particular try the "format" options (but the default "format=l" which is raw output should be exactly what you need).
I tried it with format=l, format=c and also format=o - nothing changed. I was wondering: at least format=o should print raw postscript code (my printer don't know postscript), but no difference in the output (including graphics). So I have the impression, that the format options are ignored. Oh, I put the format stuff in /etc/cups/printers.conf like ... DeviceURI lpd://192.168.2.1/lpt1?format=o ... and restarted cupsd with rccupsd restart.
In the manual, there is only a description for windows - without any queue specification.
Good manual ;-)
Yep. But - the CUPS SAM also doesn't tell me, what most of the format means, e.g. format=c ;-) Is there a possibility to be sure, that the formfeed is not coming from cups (like described in http://en.opensuse.org/SDB:Blank_Pages_When_Printing_with_CUPS ? Just to be sure ... Meanwhile: thanks for your help! kind regards, Rainer