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On Sun, 14 Jun 1998 vt240@www.dossin.detpub.k12.mi.us wrote:

> It says on the HP website that it is possible to print to any HP LaserJet 
> Printer via the printcap file.  But nowhere does it tell you how.
> Dow anyone know how to do this.
>

man printcap

will tell you most of it.  The basic steps are:

1)  Edit your /etc/printcap file.  For example I have:

lp|dan|GCC Technologies BLP Elite Postscript Printer:\
        :lp=/dev/tty01:br#57600:tr=\004:\
        :ms=opost,onlcr,-oxtabs,cs8,-parenb,ixon,-clocal,crtscts:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
        :sh:

for the printer attached to my mac's printer port.  Read the printcap man
page for an explaination of this.  Note that the beginning of the indented
lines are a TAB, not spaces.

2) create the spool directory.  In this case we specified /var/spool/lpd
as the spool directory in /etc/printcap, so (as root), do:

mkdir /var/spool/lpd


3) reset the print system (not sure if this is required or not, but it
   can't hurt)

lpc down all
lpc up all

4) test it out.

lpr -Plp testfile.ps


hope this helps.

Dan