Printing

[Shawn Tayler]

I ran into a similar problem with my LJ4100.  It appears that the APSfilter
install must overwrite the filter conf file when running.  I simply
cleared the printcap and reran /usr/share/apsfilter/setup.  Reentered the
information and all was well again.

Shawn

On Tue, 12 Aug 2003 22:14:28+0000 Ted Ozolins<ted1 at telus.net>
professed:

> On Slackware 8.1, I had printing (lpr/lprng) using a Canon BJC-210 
> working nicely. I did the upgrade to 9.0 and now I can not get it to 
> work no matter how or what I do. I then decided to setup printing on 
> another machine with a clean install of Slackware 9.0 and still no joy. 
> If I send a jop to the printer, I get the usual prompt that its 
> happening but nothing appears at the printer. If I issue "lprm -a" the 
> print job is listed and removed (as it should) I have lp0 detected at 
> boot and the bjc-210 is detected so that is not the problem (parport is 
> loaded) I can "cp somefile /dev/lp0" and it prints, but "lpr somefile" 
> renders absalutely nothing. Looking at my printcap file, the line: