Re: [netatalk-admins] Connection to DeskJet not being closed...


Subject: Re: [netatalk-admins] Connection to DeskJet not being closed...
From: Michael Zuelsdorff (micha@dolbyco.han.de)
Date: Mon Feb 23 1998 - 19:50:44 EST


Guten Abend,

you wrote:

> I'm making progress in getting a Solaris host to print to a
> LocalTalk connected HP DeskJet 870Cxi, but I have run up against a problem
> I can't figure out. For some reason, after a document has printed
> successfully, the connection to the printer is not getting closed.
>
> Then I print the file:
>
> $ gs -q \
> -dNOPAUSE \
> -sDEVICE=cdj550 \
> -sOutputFile='|/usr/local/atalk/bin/pap -p \
> "DeskJet 870C in 405B:DeskWriter@Math"' \
> /usr/local/share/ghostscript/5.10/examples/colorcir.ps \
> -c quit
>
> And then the printer stays busy until it is powered off and back on:

Try piping the job to: pap -E -p "....", this works for my standard Deskwriter.
-E ?!? No, it's not in the man-page. Have a look at pap.c - there are even
more switches (and crazy defines :-).

Bye.

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