Subject: RE: Printcap problem... EPSON almost there
From: Tom Watson (tsw@johana.com)
Date: Thu May 25 2000 - 16:18:20 EDT
On Thu, 25 May 2000 11:33:33 -0400 (EDT), netatalk-admins@umich.edu wrote:
> Excellent!
> How did you get the Epson driver to recognize the printer spool? I tried to
> do the same thing, but was unable to get the printer to show up in the
> chooser with the Epson AT driver...
> I ended up using LaserWriter 8 with ghostscript for PS conversion...
>
> Sean.
>
> > ----------
> > From: John Grieg
> > Sent: Thursday, May 25, 2000 8:09 AM
> > To: netatalk-admins@umich.edu
> > Subject: Re: Printcap problem... EPSON almost there
> >
> > I have successfylly set up papd.conf with an Epson 3000
> >
> > File '/etc/netatalk/papd.conf':
> >
> > Epson \:EpsonLQ2:op=lp:pr=lp:
> >
<<<deletia>>>
The 'secret' is to make the 'type' that is registered via 'papd' to
be "EpsonLQ2". I found out by looking at some packet tracings of the
NBP packets that the Epson chooser module emits. The ':' needs to be
escaped (with a '\') since that is how the NBP software likes the
entity passed to it. See nbp_name(3) for how things are parsed.
I've got similar problems with an Epson Color Stylus printer. The spool
is a little 'wierd'. I'm still investigating. But I see that you
didn't need to specify a pipe as part of the printer. I haven't
gotten THAT part to function yet.
-- Tom Watson Generic short signature tsw@johana.com (I'm at home now)
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