printing problems ....

[Warren Block]

On Fri, 29 Aug 2014, William A. Mahaffey III wrote:

>
>
> I am trying to get printing working under FBSD 9.3. I cribbed printcap info 
> from 
> https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing.html#printing-quick-start 
> & tried it out:
>
>
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:04am] 458 %  service lpd status
> lpd is running as pid 27062.
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:06am] 459 %  printf "From jaguar:\n1. This printer 
> can print.\n2. This is the second line.\n" | lpr
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:36am] 460 %  lpq
> no entries
> [root at kabini1, /etc, 10:48:38am] 461 %  (tail printcap )
> #       :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> #
> # ... following cribbed from Athlon-cube, FC14 ;-) ....
> #
> # printer|Xerox Phaser 6130N:rm=jaguar.cfd.com:rp=printer:
> # Cups-PDF|Cups-PDF:rm=jaguar.cfd.com:rp=Cups-PDF:
> #
> # ... following cribbed from online FBSD LP docs ....
> #
> lp:lp=:rm=printer:rp=raw:sh:mx#0:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

"raw" is an HP standard queue name.  The manual for the Xerox 6130N says 
(for Mac setup) to leave the queue name blank.