Problems with printing

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Thu Apr 22 18:15:21 UTC 2010


On Thu, 22 Apr 2010, Frank Wi?mann wrote:

> Hello, list!
> I'm facing serious problems with my new bought HP ColorLaserjet 2025dn.
> I plugged it in the right interface and it got detected. I did set up 
> /etc/printcap as following:
>
> p|local line printer|HPColorLaserjet:\
>        :lp=/dev/ulpt0:\
>        :sh:\
>        :mx#0:\
>        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/HPColorLaserjet:\
> #       :if=/usr/local/libexec/ps2pcl:\
>        :if=/usr/local/libexec/psif:\
>        :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

That whole printer definition is one long line; backslashes are line 
continuation characters.

Because of that, you can't just comment out individual sections. 
Remove the whole ps2pcl filter line.

That may not be the whole problem, but it's a start.

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA


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