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Re: Formatted printing to a NT printer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Geoffrey D. Bennett)
Mon Oct 21 18:42:58 1996
From: "Geoffrey D. Bennett" <geoffrey@netcraft.com.au>
To: iweft@ipax.com.au
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:29:49 +0930 (CST)
Cc: redhat-list@redhat.com
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.91.961021111455.2656G-100000@archenland> from "Robert Hart" at Oct 21, 96 11:33:08 am
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Hi Robert,
you wrote:
> I set up a local queue using the DJ550C in the printtool and then tried
> modifying the entry to read...
>
> lp|dj:\
> :sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp850c:\
> :mx#0:\
> :rm=hwin.interweft.com.au:\
> :rp=850C:\
> :if=/var/spool/lpd/hp850c/filter:\
> :sh:
The problem here is that lpr/lpd doesn't support input filters for
remote printers; the idea is that the remote printer is the one that
does the filtering. A common solution is to set up two printers: a
remote printer with no filtering, and a local printer pointing to
/dev/null, with a filter that does an lpr of the filtered data to the
remote printer.
Something along these lines should work:
/etc/printcap:
-----
lp|dj:\
:lp=/dev/null:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp850c:\
:if=/var/spool/lpd/hp850c/filter:
lp-network:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/hp850c-network:\
:rm=hwin.interweft.com.au:\
:rp=850C:
-----
/var/spool/lpd/hp850c/filter:
-----
#!/bin/sh
/var/spool/lpd/hp850c/ps-filter | lpr -Plp-network
-----
And move your current filter to /var/spool/lpd/hp850c/ps-filter.
Regards,
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Geoffrey D. Bennett (geoffrey@netcraft.com.au)
Computer Systems Manager, NetCraft Australia
http://www.netcraft.com.au/geoffrey/
Red Hat Linux Resellers: http://www.netcraft.com.au/redhat/
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