Re: printing to windows lpd

[Andreas Klemm <andreas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Next time please use proper mailinglist.
This is -chat not -help, o.k. ;-)

On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 10:30:52PM -0800, Tekshop wrote:
> I'm trying to print to an HP laserjet 5mp which is connected parallel to a
> win nt4 machine. I have set up tcp/ip printing services on the windows box,
> and verified with a mac lpr printer. I can also print to it via lpr on my
> freebsd box if I set up a simple lpr printer and use the builtin input
> filter. I can print text from bsd.

Thats fine so far, so remote-printing should work in general...

But it would have been fine, to use the bugform from apsfilter
sources, since it guides you a bit, what infos are interesting
to give better support without having to re-ask same questions
again and again ...

Which apsfilter version please ? 6.1.1 ?

> As soon as I install apsfilter and set up the same lpr printer, printing
> that same text file yields a big job with lots of pages. gs appears to fire
> up and process by text file.

You should enable debugging in apsfilter script, see /etc/printcap
for location, by uncommenting line with set -x.

Then see logfile of print session. Thats the debug output of the
shell running the apsfilter shellscript.

Then you should see, which filetype has been recognized, which
filter have been used, how gs has been called, etc ...

You could also send the log of exactly _one_ print session to the
apsfilter-help mailinglist for evaluation ...

With that info you could also experiment a little bit on the commandline
and see, if its perhaps only that text document, that confuses one
of the filter programs in the path of filters ... usually a2ps if
you print text ....

> any help?

done.

	Andreas ///

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