Re: FreeBSD to FreeBSD, no problem (Re: apsfilter doesn't work on server)

[Christian Ullrich <chris@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Andreas Klemm wrote on Thursday, 2002-01-17:

> I tried remote printing in my home network.
> Machines:

[...]

> 2. laptop:	print client
> 		lineprinter scheduler: default (Berkeley lpd)
> 		printer/queue named "ascii"
> 		apsfilter version 7.2.1 (only used SETUP to configure
> 		printcap entry and spool-dir) Used driver: PS printer
> 		and later removed the line if= in printcap && lpc
> 		restart all

I'll try that.

> Well, I see no problem with apsfilter ...
> 
> Could it perhaps be the case, that the printer needs another
> setup ? I remember HP printer, who were able to print PS, PCL
> and HPGL, sometimes failed recognizing Postscript exactly ...

It recognizes apsfilter(a2ps)-generated PostScript in local jobs,
so I believe it would recognize apsfilter(a2ps)-generated PostScript
in remote jobs.

> Could be the case, that you have to set it up, that Postscript is
> the default language ... But then you have to send everything 

According to the printer's internal test page, it's set to 
automatic recognition. Once I have figured out how to do that,
I'll change it to PS.

> "encapsulated in PS". But no problem, since this does apsfilter.
> 
> And as you can see, FreeBSD 4.5 RC1 fires up apsfilter as input
> filter...

According to my logs, it's started here as well. I did some
testing for Garance, and got a 20 K log from four jobs, two
from each machine. There's only two a2ps invocations in there,
unsurprisingly both from the locally printed jobs.

I put the log file up at "http://www.chrullrich.de/lpd-log-1",
if you would like to see it.

> One last idea, maybe it makes a difference, when the apsfilter
> print server prints to a lpd remote printer ... I currently don'tr
> remember eyxactly, if your PS printer was connected locally or
> if you print a 2nd time over network to a real PS network printer.

Local connection via parallel port.

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