Subject: Re: Desktop Printer Util...
From: Brice Ruth (brice@webprojkt.com)
Date: Tue Sep 05 2000 - 18:22:46 EDT
don't know how, but I got it to work ... I basically covered all the bases, so
I don't rightly know what was wrong -
entered the clients that would be printing into /etc/hosts
entered the clients that would be printing into /etc/hosts.lpd &
/etc/hosts.allow
turned on logging in lpd (via lpd -l )
voila! all works now ... occasionally get weird issues, (like a log message:
protocol screwup - guessing that's Apple's problem) but all in all, it works.
sth@hbconcoctions.com wrote:
> On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Brice Ruth wrote:
>
> [snip]
>
> > On a different note ... has anyone ever printed to an lpd spool via the
> > "Desktop Printer Utility" ?? I'm having some issues and I can't quite
> > nail them down ...
>
> [/snip]
>
> I'd be curious to hear about this as well; for the last several months
> we've been trying (mostly in vain) to get our network's Macs to print to a
> Xerox P12 laser printer that's hanging off an AXIS 540+ micro printserver.
> The salient point is that this printer is not postscript-compatible, and
> I've been struggling with apsfilter/magicfilter and netatalk to gain a
> satisfactory solution to this problem.
>
> Last attempt had an lpd queue which did nothing but pass the print data
> thru a postscript-to-pcl filter and then respool to another queue which
> then blasted this data at the AXIS. The idea was/is that the Macs would
> print (preferably via the DPU) to the Linux machine (LinuxPPC 2.2.6-15,
> currently), which would in turn make the appropriate translations and pass
> the results to the AXIS and print correctly. Am I off my rocker in
> thinking that this should work?
>
> Comments would be appreciated,
>
> -sth
>
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