[plug] Printer problem

[Len Bird]

Mike Holland wrote:

> On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Peter Cooper wrote:
>
> > looked at my printcap file, it looks like:
> >
> > lp:\
> >
> >       :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
> >       :mx#0:\
> >       :sh:\
> >       :lp=/dev/lpi:
>
> Did you cut&paste that? '/dev/lpi' looks weird. Does it exist?
> Should be /dev/lp0 or /dev/lp1 normally.
>
> Also, there is nothing there to tell it how to filter the input.
> Unix program expect a postscript printer, so you need a filter
> to convert it.
>
> > As I am completely ignorant of unix, can someone tell me if there is
>
> Which unix/linux books do you have?
>
> What went wrong when you tried to use printtol? You will need to specify
> a filter compatible with your printer.
>
> Mike Holland <mike at golden.wattle.id.au>            Perth, Australia.
>                           --==--

Further to my original response and what Mike Holland said, I think that
like me your eyesight
 is not the best and you may have been confused about i, I, 1, 0, and O!
In DOS the parallel ports
 are  LPT-1 , LPT-2 etc  in Linux the equivalents are lp0  lp1,   i.e.
"lp-zero" and lp-one etc."
 Check these again, and perhaps your Filter(s) will do their thing.

 I have an Epson Stylus 600 as lp0 and an Epson 1500 lookalike as lp1.
Obviously if you have only
 one printer connected it must be lp0. if connected to the LPT-1 port.  If
this fails to correct your
 problem I suggest that you re-run the RH-6.1 installation with minimal
selected options, and
 carefully  check the Printer install option.    Let me know how you get
on,

 Cheers and regards,    Len Bird