[LUAU] Problem printing with apsfilter FreeBSD 4.9
Ben Beeson
bwbees0 at charter.net
Tue Oct 19 18:29:23 PDT 2004
Al,
I haven't had to tinker with a printcap file in a long time (and I was
forever tweaking it once I started...), but I am wondering if your box
thinks the psc750 is a dnj750 in one spot and finding it not to be so in
another spot. Tracking down printing troubles in Unix is not fun, I
feel for you. Anyway, I think apsfilter and ghostscript work together
to print from those Unices that use the lpr family of printing spoolers.
Maybe one of them is looking for a different printer. Perhaps something
changed your printcap file and it needs to be reread. The Apsfilter.org
site at:
http://www.apsfilter.org/docs/apsfilter-handbook-stable.html#setup_item_restart
offers the following tip for rereading the printcap file.
4.2.14 Finish setup
After your printers are installed, all parameter settings from SETUP are
saved to /usr/local/etc/apsfilter/SETUP.cfg; these will be re-read the
next time you want to install a printer.
At this point /etc/printcap has changed, so you have to tell your
spooler daemon to use the new values. Please use the command
corresponding to your spooler type:
LPRng
lpc reread
BSD-lpd
lpc restart all
others
/etc/rc.d/init.d/lpd restart
(adjust this to your OS)
Also, any other clues in your /var/log/messages?
Good luck,
Ben
On Tue, 2004-10-19 at 10:27, webmaster at hawaiidakine.com wrote:
> Hi Gurus,
>
> Printer is a USB HP psc750 on a FreeBSD 4.9 box. Stand alone printer.
>
> I am getting:# lptcontrol -p "Device Busy"
>
> :# lpc status lp dnj750
> queing is enabled
> printing is enabled
> 3 entries in spool area
> Waiting for dnj750 to become ready (offline?)
>
> :# lpr -d dnj750 testprinter
>
> lpr: cannot access dnj750
>
> I also get error that reads #16 and gives the hostname of the machine i
> am trying to set up the printer on, 'guam10.intra.net' as an
> unrecognized command.
>
> What should I be looking for? I have used apsfilter on a HP lasetjet
> 1100 and not had this problem on FreeBSD 4.9 before.
> I do note that the apsfilter was an older version I used before.
>
> Any suggestions appreciated.
>
> Al Plant -Webmaster http://hawaiidakine.com
> Supporting Open Source in computing with FreeBSD 4.9
> "Failure only happens when you stop trying." - Omar Periu
>
>
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