On 10-Sep-98 Joe Lerch wrote:
I am having trouble getting my printcap files correct, would some kind sole please give me the basic setup for a 300 dpi postscript printer located at 172.22.1.3 with a print queue named psprint?
Well I too had problems using Yast to do this job... I doesn't seem that it can
be used to set up remote printers (despite it saying it can I think)
Here is a sample from my /etc/printcap which may help. Note this is on a
RedHat 4.2 machine
# /etc/printcap
#
# Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are doing!
# Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict format!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
#
# This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 300x300 a4 {} PostScript Default {}
lp|PostScript:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=aphex:\
:rp=printer_140:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/lp/filter:
##PRINTTOOL3## REMOTE POSTSCRIPT 300x300 a4 {} PostScript Default {}
colour:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/colour:\
:mx#0:\
:sh:\
:rm=aphex:\
:rp=colour:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/colour/filter:
Note the machine hosting the printer queues is called aphex.
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