On Wed, Jan 03, 2001 at 12:32:39AM +0100, Anders Dinsen wrote:
> I think I'm getting mad... I cannot get my NetBSD 1.5/i386 host to print
> on my printer with lpd. I *can* print by copying a postscript file to
> /dev/lpa2.
> 
> Heres my printcap entry:
> 
> lp|QMS-PS 810 PostScript:\
> 	:lp=/dev/lpa2:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
> 
> If I switch the printer to HP emulation (so it can print plain ascii), I
> get *very* strange output when I print any plain text file: a page with a
> few "d"s spaced widely and a couple of "a"s right next to each other. Then
> a blank page.
> 
> In postscript when I use lpr, the printer starts flashing the error LED to
> tell me that the postscript it has received is bad.
> 
> WHAT am I doing wrong?

You may want to add :sf:sh:mx#0: to your printcap entry, to kill form feed,
banner page and others that can confuse the printer.

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Manuel Bouyer, LIP6, Universite Paris VI.           Manuel.Bouyer@lip6.fr
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