printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

Warren Block wblock at wonkity.com
Wed Jul 27 22:11:36 UTC 2011


On Wed, 27 Jul 2011, Antonio Olivares wrote:

> I changed /etc/printcap, and two blank pages came out but blank :(

Okay, it's progress.  And good news, that printer understands plain 
ASCII and PCL3.

Make certain lpd is running (pgrep lpd), then try the test shown in the 
article:

   % printf “This is a test\r\n\f” | lpr


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