Printing to a Lanier LD160c does not work

Martin Alejandro Paredes Sanchez mapsware at prodigy.net.mx
Thu Oct 23 21:51:09 PDT 2008


El Jue 16 Oct 2008, Jeremy Chadwick escribió:
> On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 08:36:42PM +0000, ajphanks at comcast.net wrote:
> > I am trying to setup a Lanier LD160c (admincolor) that has a network
> > interface.  I am new to FreeBSD and tried to follow the handbook.  I am
> > able to print to a HP 5SI (corp-admin) with no problems.  There are no
> > errors in the lpd-errs and the file is drained from the queue, but the
> > printer does not print anything.  And this is a working printer to
> > Windows. lpr -P admincolor testfile.txt
> >
> > printcap:
> > corp-admin|hp|laserjet|Hewlett Packard LaserJet 5Si:\
> >
> >         :lp=\
> >         :sd=/var/spool/output/corp-admin:rm=corp-admin:\
> >         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
> >         :if=/usr/local/libexec/crlfilter:sh:tr=\f:mx#0:
> >
> > admincolor|hp|laserjet|LANIER LD160c RPCS:\
> >
> >         :lp=\
> >         :sd=/var/spool/output/admincolor:rm=admincolor:\
> >         :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
>
> If this printer is hooked up on the network (e.g. via Ethernet), I
> believe you need to set the lp variable to the hostname or IP address of
> the printer, e.g.:
>
> admincolor|hp|laserjet|LANIER LD160c RPCS:\
>
>       :lp=192.168.1.100\
>       :sd=/var/spool/output/admincolor:rm=admincolor:\
>       :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
>

Negative, leave the lp capability blank, explicitly (:lp=:).

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-advanced.html#PRINTING-ADVANCED-NETWORK-RM


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