RE: [Hpoj-devel] filters & "no daemon present"

[PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1) <dav...@hp...>]

Hi, Erick.  I've had my head in the sand for a while working on I/O and
scanning issues, so I guess it's time to look into printing.

> as I don't have apsfilter installed (do I need to install it?, can I not
> just print with ieee12844_print?)
There are actually two sets of instructions from at least two different
people in PRINT-HOWTO: Andreas Fester (presumably) for SuSE (which is the
part using apsfilter), and Colin Dean for RedHat.  I'll try to clean this up
some.

> my /etc/printcap looks like this:
>
> lp:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
>         :mx#0:\
>         :sh:\
>         :lp=/dev/null:\
>         :if=/usr/local/bin/ieee12844_print:
You can't just set "if=" to ieee12844_print, because it needs to go through
a print filter script to convert the PostScript print job to the right
language for the printer.  Also, ieee12844_print doesn't handle the
arguments that lpd automatically passes to the filter.  The solution for now
according to the second half of PRINT-HOWTO is to create a wrapper script
that passes its command-line arguments to the standard print filter and
pipes the resulting output to ieee12844_print.

David