[95562] in RedHat Linux List
Re: printing setup
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Igmar Palsenberg)
Mon Oct 19 11:59:39 1998
From: "Igmar Palsenberg" <palsenberg@tebenet.nl>
To: <redhat-list@redhat.com>
Cc: <jan@wotan.opt-sci.Arizona.EDU>
Date: Mon, 19 Oct 1998 18:05:30 +0200
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>Question one:
>I want to have poeple from a remote host printing via a RH5.1 printer
>server to some network printer. At the moment it looks as if only >poeple
>from the remote host who also have an accnount on the printer >server are
>allowed to use the printer. But the 'rs'-flag int /etc/printcap ist not
>set... So why can't they just use the printer.
In the 5.0 version of lpd, there was a bug in the lpd deamon which prevented
users that didn't have an account from printing. I don't know if this is
still the case with the 5.1 lpd.
There is a patch for this.
>Question two:
>My printer is a HP Laserjet4000n; so when I configured the printer I >told
>the setuptool to use the HP LJ IV/5/6 filter - and this works pretty >good
>except that the printed file is not really centered on the page, but
>rather shifted a bit (probably .5 cm)to the top. So what option could I
>use to get that straight. Oh yeah, just wondering if there is a way to
>tell the filter to address the printer with 1200x1200 dpi to get the >best
>possible results...
1200x1200 ?? You don't want that. Has no use, and costs a lot of power..
>So, now I guess I really have asked all I might need to know...
>Thanks
>Ciao Jan
Igmar Palsenberg
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