[ILUG] printing...

From: John P. Looney (john at domain antefacto.com)
Date: Fri 01 Jun 2001 - 17:19:45 IST


 Anyone know how to speak lpd ? Basically, we've just gotten a great big
feck-off printer (canon GP-335). And, it's "lpd enabled". I know the
printer name...what else do I need to know ?

 When I tried to print a test page, I got;

bartender [0] lpq
Printer: printer1 at domain bartender (dest printer1 at domain printer1)
 Queue: 1 printable job
 Server: pid 3080 active
 Unspooler: pid 3140 active
 Status: attempt 3, sleeping 20 before retry at 17:10:21.039
 Rank Owner/ID Class Job Files Size
Time
active(attempt-3) root A 79 /usr/share/printconf 18043
17:10:10
no entries

 So, it looks like redhat's printtool assumes that if you don't give a
print queue name it defaults to the printer name. Anyway. Is "lpd" a text
type thing like SMTP/IMAP etc ?

Kate

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