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Subject: Re: LPRng: Re: LPRng 3.7.4-printer problems on linux
From: Joel Hammer <Joel () HammersHome ! com>
Date: 2002-06-17 1:36:06
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This may be easier than it seems. If you have a new version of gs, gs -h
and can see that driver in there (hpijs or some such), then maybe you
can just set up gs as your print filter. The gs command is something
like this:
cat APostScriptFile | gs -q -sDEVICE=hpijs -sOutputFile=\|lpr
might work if the lpr sends it to a "raw" queue, that is, a queue without
a filter. If this works, you could use this command in your print filter,
which could you easily write yourself. See this web site:
http://www.opq.se/linux.nf/stepbystep.html
Go to the Bedtime Reading section and find the print filter description.
Also, read man gs.
Joel
On Sun, Jun 16, 2002 at 08:50:15PM -0400, Milt Cooper wrote:
> Thanks. This stuff looks way, way over my head. I will have to spend
> considerable time looking it over. You have done a lot of searching, and I
> appreciate the help. I will let you know if anything comes of it.
> Milt
>
> > From: Joel Hammer <Joel@HammersHome.com>
> > Reply-To: lprng@lprng.com
> > Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 23:18:06 -0400
> > To: lprng@lprng.com
> > Subject: Re: LPRng: Re: LPRng 3.7.4-printer problems on linux
> >
> > This might help. Things look hopeful.
> >
> > http://hpinkjet.sourceforge.net/install.php
> >
> > Joel
> >
> > On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:10:51PM -0400, Joel Hammer wrote:
> >> You might go here and then nose around this web site.
> >> http://www.linuxprinting.org/show_printer.cgi?recnum=HP-DeskJet_920C
> >>
> >> If I understood what this web site was saying, I would tell you. It would be
> >> nice to think you could just drop in the filter they suggest, but they are
> >> not giving out explicit, easy instructions in an obvious place. But, at
> >> least your printer seems to be supported.
> >>
> >> Joel
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 10:16:17PM -0400, Milt Cooper wrote:
> >>> Joel,
> >>>
> >>> hp920 contains nothing.
> >>> db.hp920 contains approx. 1 full page of ^@ symbols; 1 page of continuing
> >>> yyyy^@ groups, and lastly about a page of ^@^@^@, each of this last group of
> >>> three ^@'s being preceded by a solid black rectangular character that I
> >>> can't duplicate with the keyboard.
> >>> If this is the end of the line, so be it. Thanks a bunch for trying.Can you
> >>> tell me what those pages of symbols are for?
> >>> Milt
> >>>
> >>>> From: Joel Hammer <Joel@HammersHome.com>
> >>>> Reply-To: lprng@lprng.com
> >>>> Date: Sat, 15 Jun 2002 12:17:21 -0400
> >>>> To: lprng@lprng.com
> >>>> Subject: Re: LPRng: Re: LPRng 3.7.4-printer problems on linux
> >>>>
> >>>> What is in the files:
> >>>> db.hp920 hp920
> >>>> You might run file *hp920* before you try to read them. Maybe one of them
> >>>> is your print filter.
> >>>> I don't know anything about yellowdog linux and I don't know what print
> >>>> filtering system you have and I cannot find your printer in the ghostscript
> >>>> compatability page. So, I doubt I'll be able to offer you a specific
> >>>> solution.
> >>>> You may need to educate yourself about print filters before this problem is
> >>>> resolved.
> >>>> Joel
> >>>>
> >>>> On Sat, Jun 15, 2002 at 11:40:26AM -0400, Milt Cooper wrote:
> >>>>> Joel;
> >>>>>
> >>>>> checkpc -f returns the same reply I received when I ran service lpd start
> >>>>> (see below in the original message I sent on 6/12.
> >>>>>
> >>>>> It appears there is no such file as filter. I ran, ls -la
> >>>>> /var/spool/lpd/lp0
> >>>>> and the returned list was: . .. acct control.hp920 db.hp920 hp920
> >>>>> log status status.hp920 unspooler.hp920
> >>>>> Thanks to you and the others who are trying to help.
> >>>>> Milt
> >>>>>
> >>>>>
> >>>>> What the error message is saying is that the file:
> >>>>> /var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter
> >>>>> isn't being found or can't be accessed for some reason.
> >>>>> Is there such a file?
> >>>>> Have you run checkpc -f ?
> >>>>> Don't, as suggested by someone else, run any sort of printtool at this
> >>>>> time.
> >>>>> Joel
> >>>>>
> >>>>> On Thu, Jun 13, 2002 at 10:44:15PM -0400, Milt Cooper wrote:
> >>>>>> Joel;
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Sorry for that omission. /etc/printcap reads;
> >>>>>> : sd =/var/spool/lpd/lp0:\
> >>>>>> : mx #0:\
> >>>>>> : sh :\
> >>>>>> : lp =/dev/usb /lp0:\
> >>>>>> :if =/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> The configuration was done with the graphical 'printtool' client, which
> >>>>>> comes with every Red Hat - based system.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>> Milt
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>> How did you configure the printer in linux?
> >>>>>>> Post your /etc/printcap file.
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> Joel
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>> On Wed, Jun 12, 2002 at 08:22:11PM -0400, Milt Cooper wrote:
> >>>>>>>> My imac is partitioned for dual boot in linux or mac OS 9.2. The
> >>>>>>>> printer
> >>>>>>>> is
> >>>>>>>> a hp-deskjet 920c. The linux distribution is Yellow Dog 2.1.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> The printer works fine with mac os 9.2. However, in linux at the
> >>>>>>>> command
> >>>>>>>> lpr I get
> >>>>>>>> the reply
> >>>>>>>> < "sending job 'miltc@localhost +876' to hp920@localhost -
> >>>>>>>> connection refused. Make sure LPD server is running on server". >
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Debugging with lpr -D5 the reply is:
> >>>>>>>> < signal No signal, Errorcode1, exits 0. >
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> For every command I can think of the reply is always "Make sure LPD
> >>>>>>>> server
> >>>>>>>> is running on server."
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> A reply to a previous post in a newsgroup suggested I try, as root, the
> >>>>>>>> command
> >>>>>>>> 'service lpd start'. The reply to this is:
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> < Starting lpd: Warning - cannot stat 'if'filter
> >>>>> '/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter'
> >>>>>>>> - No such file or directory. >
> >>>>>>>> I don't yet know enough to understand what this all means, so any help
> >>>>>>>> will
> >>>>>>>> be greatly appreciated.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> My question is: How do I get the LPD server to run; and what's this
> >>>>>>>> about
> >>>>> no
> >>>>>>>> filter?
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>> Thanks, Milt
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>
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