Re: Printing question

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Wed, 6 Feb 2008, Christos Zoulas wrote:

> It should talk to 9100.
>
> Install foomatic and put something like:
>
> lp-color:\
>        :mx#0:\
>        :af=/usr/pkg/share/foomatic/ppd/HP/HP-OfficeJet_G95-hpijs.ppd: \
>        :if=/usr/pkg/bin/foomatic-rip: \
>        :lp=9100%lp-color.astron.com@localhost:\
>        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp-color:\
>        :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp-color/log:\
>        :sh:

OK, did that, but it's doing strange stuff.

Here's my /etc/printcap file:

lp:\
        :lp=9100@printer:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
        :lf=/var/log/lpd/lp.log:\
        :sh:\
        :pw#80:

lp-ps:\
        :af=/usr/pkg/share/foomatic/ppd/HP/HP_DEskJet_6940-hpijs.ppd:\
        :if=/usr/pkg/bin/foomatic-rip:\
        :lp=9100@printer:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp-ps:\
        :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp-ps/log:\
        :sh:


If I just take a simple text file a.txt and send it to the printer with

        lpr -P lp a.txt

The output seems to be missing a whole lot of \r characters!  The first 
line prints correctly, the second line is printed one line below BUT 
immediately to the right of the end of the first line, etc.  And nothing 
line-wraps, so pretty soon everything is printing beyond the right-hand 
margin.  I assume I need some sort of input-filter to insert something 
to make it start new lines at the left margin?

Using enscript to encode the text file as Postscript and sending the 
result to lp-ps results in a ghostscript error - it apparently cannot 
find a font named "Courier-Bold".  I don't know why it would want a bold 
font since I'm just printing a plain text file.  I _do_ have the 
ghostscript-fonts-8.11nb1 package installed, so why can't it find the 
font?  I would expect Courier to be a rather common font.  :)  Here's an 
excerpt from the lpd log file:

foomatic-gswrapper: gs '-dBATCH' '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dQUIET' '-dNOPAUSE' 
'-sDEVI
CE=ijs' '-sIjsServer=hpijs' '-sDeviceManufacturer=HEWLETT-PACKARD' 
'-sDeviceMode
l=deskjet 5600' '-dDEVICEWIDTHPOINTS=612' '-dDEVICEHEIGHTPOINTS=792' 
'-dDuplex=f
alse' '-r300' 
'-sIjsParams=Quality:Quality=0,Quality:ColorMode=2,Quality:MediaTy
pe=0,Quality:PenSet=2,PS:MediaPosition=7' '-dIjsUseOutputFD' 
'-sOutputFile=/dev/
fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2

Closing renderer
Error: /invalidfont in /findfont
Operand stack:
   fontdict   Courier-Bold
Execution stack:
   %interp_exit   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval-
-   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringval--   fa
lse   1   %stopped_push   1889   1   3   %oparray_pop   1888   1   3 
%oparray_
pop   1872   1   3   %oparray_pop   1755   1   3   %oparray_pop 
--nostringval-
-   %errorexec_pop   .runexec2   --nostringval--   --nostringval-- 
--nostringv
al--   2   %stopped_push   --nostringval--   --nostringval--   1847   2 
3   %o
parray_pop
Dictionary stack:
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Current allocation mode is local