Subject: RE: Need some help with printing on a LaserWriter IIg
From: Morgan Reed (morganr@home.com)
Date: Fri Jun 02 2000 - 00:25:31 EDT
David,
You said you have your IIg hooked up via ethertalk to your linux box and
you have no external "zones" that you can see, could you tell me what your
.paprc looks like?
Morgan
-----Original Message-----
From: Lancaster, David Matthew [mailto:c4ng2@unb.ca]
Sent: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 7:52 AM
To: Morgan Reed
Cc: eugster@giub.unibe.ch; netatalk-admins@umich.edu
Subject: Re: Need some help with printing on a LaserWriter IIg
> I am able to send a print job to my laserwriter with pap (pap -p "MMLab
IIg"
> test.ps), however, if I try and use lpr, I get one of the following
errors:
>
> job 'cfA679LinuxBox2.thereedfamily.org' transfer to lp@localhost failed
> or
> job 'cfA680LinuxBox2.thereedfamily.org' tcp spooler is being used
by(.....
> I have not be able to re-duplicate this error, the first one appears
> consistantly).
Might be a printcap error, or a spool directory problem.
Did you verify that lpd is running correctly?
My config for RH6 & LaserIIG is as follows:
[root@darkith /etc]# cat /etc/printcap
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/laser:\
:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
:if=/usr/lib/filters/ifpap:\
:of=/usr/lib/filters/ofpap:\
:df=/usr/lib/filters/ofpap:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sh:\
:sf:\
:mx#0:\
:pl#63:\
:pw#85
[root@darkith /etc]# ls -al /usr/lib/filters/
total 8
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Sep 2 1999 .
drwxr-xr-x 36 root root 7168 May 24 08:49 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 10 17:34 ifpap ->
/usr/sbin/psf
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Feb 10 17:34 ofpap ->
/usr/sbin/psf
[root@darkith /etc]# ls -al /var/spool/lpd/laser
total 7
drwxrwxr-x 2 root lp 1024 May 15 22:09 .
drwxrwxr-x 3 root daemon 1024 Sep 8 1999 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 16 Mar 6 22:27 .paprc
-rw-rw---- 1 root root 84 Apr 25 11:44 .railmag
-rw-r----x 1 root lp 4 May 15 22:08 .seq
-------r-- 1 root root 20 May 15 22:08 lock
-rw-rw-r-- 1 root root 32 May 15 22:09 status
[root@darkith /etc]# cat /var/spool/lpd/laser/.paprc
LaserWriter IIg
I found that the formating in printcap is super-picky. Extra
spaces/carriage returns can even cause problems. I also note that you end
with a colon, which I did not. Perhaps a problem? You also have shsf
together, which I have seperated on two lines. Not sure if it's incorrect,
but I do know what worked for me.
Remember to do a "lpc restart all" after making changes to printcap. I
believe somebody suggests needing quotes around the printer name in
.paprc, but I didn't...
D.
> I did edit the services file to include the numbers and ports you
specified
> (even though I did not build it myself, and instead used the binary that
is
> downloaded with dselect in Debeian) and I edited my printcap with the
> following:
>
> lp|MMLab IIg:LaserWriter:\
> :lp=/dev/null:\
> :sd=var/spool/lpd/LaserWriterIIg:\
> :pl#63:pw#85:\
> # :mx#0:\
> :shsf:\
> :of=/usr/lib/atalk/filters/ofpap:
>
> I have set up a directory in the lpd folder called LaserWriterIIg and the
> filters are in the directory /usr/lib/atalk/filters/ and the ethernet
name
> of the printer is MMLab IIg.
>
> What have I done wrong?
>
> Another aside note, My IIg printer won't rename from the ethertalk port.
> If I hook it up to my mac via 8pin din, I can rename and the name will
> stick, but when I put the ethertalk on, then rename, the printer software
> "loses" the printer when I try to rename and then update. No biggie. I
> have the printer select switch set to 4, should it be something else?
>
> I am going to cc this messgae to the netatlk mailing list on the jhope
that
> this will either a) be solved quickly by someone on the list, or b) if
you
> are able to solve it, I can post the results there.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Morgan Reed
>
>
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