SUMMARY: printers

From: <rosy_at_LAGUNA.EPCC.EDU>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1996 12:04:58 -0600 (MDT)

Thank you very much to all the people who answered my question very
quickly,

Sheila Hollenbaugh <shollen_at_valhalla.cs.wright.edu>
"Christopher L. Davis" <cld_at_prin.edu>
John Seel <johns_at_totaltec.com>
Henry Flogel <hflogel_at_mailhub.wpl.com>
Hans Ullitz-Moeller <hum_at_biobase.dk>
"Menelaos N. Karamichalis" <mnk_at_wuerl.wustl.edu>


That was the Question:

Hello managers,

        I configure a DEC 3000 OSF/1 to print on a remote print
server (a laser 4), this is the printcap file:
# Printer connected to the network
lp|lp0|0|laserIV:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/lperr:\
        :lp=:\
        :rm=printer.my.domain:\
        :rp=printer.my.domain:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
        :mx#0:

        It's printing well from graphical mode selecting with the mouse the
information that I want to print, but when I issue the command:

#lpr -h file.txt
                                
        file.txt's content is printed in just one line (it doesn't make
a carrier return). I haven't found a flag to modify in the printcap
file. I don't have any manual just the CD where I found some
information but finally makes reference to the manuals again, have
you had any experience like that, or do you know where can I find
information about it?

         Thanks in advance.
                     

Answer:

There are two queues for those printers, raw and text. The change was:
In the /etc/printcap file

# Printer connected to the network
lp|lp0|0|laserIV:\
        :lf=/usr/adm/lperr:\
        :lp=:\
        :rm=printer.my.domain:\
        :rp=text:\
        :sd=/usr/spool/lpd:\
        :mx#0:

Note the rp=text not rp=printer.my.domain, I was wrong.
Sorry I couldn't check with rp=raw, the printer doesn't manage Poscript
format.
Received on Fri May 17 1996 - 20:45:18 NZST

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