On Fri, Feb 25, 2000 at 07:39:17PM -0800, Andrew Crossley wrote:
> Strike me down for being stupid, but i have printing problems.  Firstly, I have
> read all the Manual pages relating to lp, lpr, lpq, magicfilter, etc.  They did
> not resolve my problem.
[...]
> In console printing situations, i am getting the classic "staircase" effect,
> and i am having problems finding an IP that fixes this.  I understand that unix
> uses only one character for line feed and carraidge return.  What is the
> necessary IP line that issues this in my printcap file ??
IP? Huh?

> When i try to print using kde, i get a garbled output that is no where near
> what i intended to print.  Being an old Linux head, i found it easy, as i have
> an install binary for magicfilter and that sorts things out for me.  I have
The same should be true for NetBSD.
You said, you have magicfilters installed, but do you have it enabled in the
entry of your printcap file?

I.e. does it look like:

dj|dj690|lp|line|Deskjet 690C:\
        :sh:sd=/var/spool/output/deskjet:\
        :lp=/dev/lpa0:\
        :lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
        :mx#10000:\
        :if=/usr/pkg/libexec/magicfilter/dj690c-filter:

(This is for my Deskjet 690C printer).

(For the future: It's always very helpfull to quote your configuration files,
you will get more and better help in much shorter time).

> used many different configs supplied with magicfilter ( i use a Canon BJC-210),
> eg BJ200, BJ600, Epson ones etc and they all give the same garbage in X, and
> still the staircase effect from the console.  Is there a newbie freindly binary
This doesn't look like it's using magicfilter at all.

> available for NetBSD so as to set up an IP line in printcap easily, or can
IP line? What is that?
> anyone point me in the direction of some more documentation to read in regards
> to printing in NetBSD ??
The FreeBSD handbook is quite useful.
IIRC there was something about printing on www.daemonnews.org lately...
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