[LUAU] Problem printing with apsfilter FreeBSD 4.9

[Ben Beeson]

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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