printing to a HP Deskjet 812C printer

[Antonio Olivares]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2011 at 5:11 PM, Warren Block <wblock at wonkity.com> wrote:
> 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

Warren,

quadcore# ls -l /dev/ulpt0
crw-r--r--  1 root  operator    0, 148 Jul 27 16:29 /dev/ulpt0
quadcore# ls -l /dev/unlpt0
crw-r--r--  1 root  operator    0, 149 Jul 27 16:27 /dev/unlpt0
quadcore# pgrep lpd
43017
quadcore# printf "This is a test\r\n\f" | lpr

The printer has not printed :(

Thanks,

Antonio