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

[Erick C. <ec...@ar...>]

ok.  so I did need apsfilter.  I installed it (and a2ps which it
needs, and GhostScript 6.01 which I read somewhere I had to have) but
the installation requires that I configure a printer from their list,
of course my OJ700 isn't there. I tried several of the HP printers but
it kept complaining that GhostScript was not compiled with support for
that printer (I installed from RPM), so in the end I picked one of the
Epsons, figuring I would reconfigure manually later when I figure out
what to do.

when the installation was complete, it did not create the
/var/spool/lpd/lp0/filter to which Colin Dean's wrapfilter refers.

I'm starting to get the feeling printing is not simple in Linux<g>.
Perhaps I could ask you this:  my aim is to be able to print from my
NT laptop via the Linux box.  is this even doable?

here's the contents of my /etc/printcap now:

# /etc/printcap
#
# Please don't edit this file directly unless you know what you are
doing!
# Be warned that the control-panel printtool requires a very strict
format!
# Look at the printcap(5) man page for more info.
#
# This file can be edited with the printtool in the control-panel.

##PRINTTOOL3## LOCAL
lp:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:\
        :lp=/dev/null:\
        :if=/usr/local/bin/ieee12844_print:

# LABEL apsfilter
# apsfilter setup Mon Sep  4 05:46:42 EDT 2000
#
# DON'T DELETE THIS:
# APS_BASEDIR:/usr/local/lib/apsfilter
#
# APS1_BEGIN:printer1:lp8000:letter:default
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
#
lp|aps1-lp8000-letter-auto-default|Printer1 lp8000 letter auto
default:\
        :lp=/dev/lp0:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-lp8000-letter-auto-default:\
        :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-lp8000-letter-auto-default/log:\
        :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-lp8000-letter-auto-default/acct:\

:if=/usr/local/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps1-lp8000-letter-auto-default:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:
raw|aps2-lp8000-letter-raw|Printer1 lp8000 letter raw:\
        :lp=/dev/lp0:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-lp8000-letter-raw:\
        :lf=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-lp8000-letter-raw/log:\
        :af=/var/spool/lpd/printer1-lp8000-letter-raw/acct:\
        :if=/usr/local/lib/apsfilter/filter/aps2-lp8000-letter-raw:\
        :mx#0:\
        :sh:
# APS1_END - don't delete this END LABEL for printer1

any help you can provide will be tremendously appreciated.

- e

-----Original Message-----
From: hpo...@li...
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PASCHAL,DAVID (HP-Roseville,ex1)
Sent: Tuesday, September 05, 2000 7:27 PM
To: hpo...@li...
Subject: RE: [Hpoj-devel] filters & "no daemon present"


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
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