Re: [TCLUG:17991] LPRng goofiness

[Andy Zbikowski <andyzb@ltiflex.com>]

> 
> It's been said network printing the bane of the admin's existence. I must
> say that I whole-heartedly agree. My stupid printer gives me more grief than
> everything else combined.
> 

Agreed. Except here, it's printers. Only some of which support PS.
(Ick...) and one of which isn't even supported by Linux (yet Linux is
now sharing it happily, I RULE!) 

> I'm using LPRng on my print server, printing to an HP4000 PS printer with a
> JetDirect card. This was working a few days ago, but now seems hosed. When I
> try to print something from the commandline on the server, I get:

Have you tried giving it a PS file instead of something you have to
filter? (/usr/share/doc/gs/examples, /usr/doc/gs/examples, or maybe you
have gs-alladin, but there are some defent test pages in ps format
there.)

Have you tried the -P option? Sometimes LPRng is picky...
lpr -Php4000 somefile

Make sure it's working under winders?

Shoot it. Kick it. Port scan a few times (that usually makes a HP
printer puke, fun stuff)

Can't think of anything else right now, back to working on my lprng cgi
scripts. let's see...we start with #!/bin/perl ...

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