[linux-help] Re: Printer prints color graphics, but not text

[Nate Bargmann <n0nb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

* bbales <bbales@xxxxxxxxxxx> [2002 Mar 11 05:41 -0600]:
> 
> Printcap contains the following, which I don't understand much of.
> bjc6000:\
>         :ml=0:\
>         :mx=0:\
>         :sd=/var/spool/lpd/bjc6000:\
>         :af=/var/spool/lpd/bjc6000/bjc6000.acct:\
>         :sh:\
>         :lp=/dev/lp0:\
>         :lpd_bounce=true:\
>         :if=/usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper:

What I'm seeing, Bruce, is that this printer is not set as the default
device.  Two ways to work around this, one change the lpr command line
as follows:

lpr -P bjc6000 somefile.txt

or add the default printer name, lp, to this stanza like so:

lp|bjc6000:\

If there's another stanza that has lp in it, lpr has essentially been
sending your print jobs to /dev/null.  IIRC, gimp print handles the
printer directly thus bypassing /etc/printcap, lpr, and the print
filtering.

- Nate >>

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