Printing

[Kurt Wall]

Quoth Ted Ozolins:
> 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:
> 
> :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
> 
> does not look correct. Should this not point to:
> 
> /etc/apsfilter/canonbub/apsfilterrc  ???

On my 9.0 system, /etc/apsfilter/basedir is a symlink, to wit:

$ ls -l /etc/apsfilter/basedir
lrwxrwxrwx    1 root     root           20 Jun 18 22:36 /etc/apsfilter/basedir -> /usr/share/apsfilter/

> # APS2_BEGIN:printer2
> canonbub:\
>     :af=/var/spool/lpd/canonbub/acct:\
>     :if=/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
>     :lf=/var/spool/lpd/canonbub/log:\
>     :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>     :mx#0:\
>     :sd=/var/spool/lpd/canonbub:\
>     :sh:
> # APS2_END

Look for other lines /etc/printcap that aren't hashed out. I'm betting
you'll find one that points to a non-existent printer. Better yet, post
the whole shootin' match (/etc/printcap, that is) and we can debug it.

Kurt
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