Finally got round to printing... sort of!

cpcnw

Hi,

I have a Kyocera FS-1030D Mono Laser with network card.

It has 'Logicial Print Queue' names - lp1 (9100), lp2 (9101) etc It also has as 'Filter Setting' for each of the logical names; None, ASCII (CR+LF) and ASCII to PostScript.

I wanted the most basic printing I could and decided to try and figure out LPD. I read a bunch of stuff all over the place and I have it working... sort of? Here's what I have done so far.

# mkdir /var/spool/output/kyocera
# chown -R root:daemon /var/spool/output/kyocera
# chmod 770 /var/spool/output/kyocera
# rcctl restart lpd
# touch /etc/printcap
# ee /etc/printcap

lp|kyocera:\
    :sh=:\
    :lp=:rm=kyocera:\
    :sd=/var/spool/output/kyocera:\
    :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
    :rp=lp2

# echo "192.168.1.10 kyocera" >> /etc/hosts

I enabled ASCII to Postscript on lp2 queue. I did create filters psif, lf2crlf and enscript but because the printer itself has a filter option I didn't think I needed them.

Result? I can ping kyocera...

# lpr -p plain.txt

works fine as does lpr -P kyocera from the print dialogue on my filemanager XFE. What doesn't work is printing from Seamonkey. Trying to print a single highlighted line causes the printer to spit out multiple pages and I end up switching off. I have noticed right at the beginning of said pages it shows %PDF-1.4

Any tips or advice on the above would be warmly welcomed, especially as I used such varied sources to try and get all this working 🙂

rvp

cpcnw If the printer's fine with PostScript or PDF input, then put the printer into that mode and then convert everything else into PostScript/PDF using a2ps + GhostScript (for PS->PDF).