lpd remote printing

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

You need to define a printcap entry on .1 that does no processing, then
do the print processing on the .2 system (apsfilter) and send the binary
result to the "no-processing" queue on the .1 system.

I don't know what your sending from .2 to .1, probably raw postscript -
which in my experience is usually misinterpreted when it's not processed
on the machine it's generated on.

I know that in theory you should be able to send postscript jobs from any
bsd or even windows systems to a central server that converts the postscript
to whatever binary-speak that the HP1300 uses - but in practice I've never
got this to work 100% all the time.

Ted

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> I have two FreeBSD v5.2.1 systems and a Windows XP system.  The first FBSD
> system (192.168.1.1) is acting as the print server and using apsfilter as
> the filtering software.  The Windows XP box prints to the .1
> system through
> SAMBA.  Both the FBSD .1 server and the Windows box print fine.  Text is
> good, images are good, everything is good.
>
> The problem I'm having is with printing from the second FBSD system which
> I'll identify as 192.168.1.2.  The FBSD .2 system is sending print jobs to
> the FBSD .1 system using remote lpd printing.  The jobs are
> making it to the
> remote FBSD system (192.168.1.1), but the text and images are about 50%
> larger than what is printed from the FBSD .1 system itself, or the windows
> XP system.
>
> Can anyone help me resolve this problem?  My printcap entries are
> as follows:
>
> 192.168.1.1 PRINTCAP ENTRY (the FBSD print server)
> --------------------------------------------------
> HP1300|PS;r=600x600;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\
>     :lp=/dev/lpt0:\
>     :if=/usr/local/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/HP1300:\
>     :lf=/var/spool/lpd/HP1300/log:\
>     :af=/var/spool/lpd/HP1300/acct:\
>     :mx#0:\
>     :sh:
>
>
> 192.168.1.2 PRINTCAP ENTRY (the other FBSD machine)
> ---------------------------------------------------
> HP1300:lp=:rm=192.168.1.1:rp=HP1300:sd=/var/spool/lpd/qdir
>
>
> By the way, the HP1300 is the only printer attached to the FBSD .1 machine
> and there are no other printers on either of the other systems.
>
> Jon
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