My limited experience, Don't forget to restart lpd whenever changes to /etc/printcap are made Use to be. /etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart Printcap is very picky about its format. After a lot of hacking it may be necessary to copy it to a safe place and create a new file. If you can print from the command line your ascii print configuration is ok. The Postscript filter may not be working. I reinstalled ghostscript to overcome this problem recently. (2.2.18) Brian Marr On Fri, 06 Apr 2001, you wrote:
I have spent the last 3 days trying to get 7.1 to print. In that time I have read both Printing-howto and PrintUsage-Howto, all that I can find in the Suse documents, and the deja linux archives and many other web resources, including the BSD handbook.
It is obvious from the posts I read in the archives that my problems are not unique.
At first I was trying to print to a netware printer using the ncp package which works fine in connecting to my netware server.
I gave that up and connected a printer locally to lpt1. I can print text to this printer from the command line: cat myfile.txt > /dev/lp0 so I know that the printer is connected and working.
I have followed the documentation on setting up a queue and filters in both yast and lprsetup/aspfilter and none of this stuff works. From message archives that I have read, I am convinced that this is a black art. I am an experienced network admin and with accurate documentation and newsgroup/list archives I can handle just about anything. But the resources available for linux printing seem woefully inadequate.
I sure would appreciate any pointers to resources I have missed or anything else that might get me going.
thanks, Otto Porter
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