One more idea:  Could the printer not be receiving a form feed necessary
to kick out the pages?   I read a suggestion to that effect in an
archive somewhere, but I'm not sure how to send the form feed.

Phil Brodd


On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Philip Brodd wrote:

> I'm still banging my head against this with no progress.  From the
> archives, it looks like others have encountered the same problem, but
> they must have solved it offline.
>
> Could the fc and fs capabilities be fouling things up?  I tried
> commenting them out of my printcap, but I got the same result.  I can't
> see anything else unusual about the entry.
>
> Might I have more luck using the LW's 25-pin RS232 port rather than the
> 9-pin port?
>
> Thanks.
>
> Phil Brodd
>
>
> > lp|laser-NTR|Personal LaserWriter NTR:\
> > 	:lp=/dev/tty01:\
> > 	:sd=/var/spool/lp:\
> > 	:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
> > 	:br#9600:\
> > 	:mx#0:\
> > 	:rw:\
> > 	:sh:\
> > 	:fc#0000300:\
> > 	:fs#0000041:
> >
> > I just found this out on the net, so I'm not sure of its validity.  I
> > created the directory /var/spool/lp, and restarted lpd.  At first I got
> > an error that /dev/lp does not exist.  Someone suggested that I just
> > make /dev/lp a symlink to /dev/tty01, and doing so got rid of the error.
> > Now when I try, say, 'lpr file.ps' the LaserWriter's ready light blinks
> > for several seconds and the file is queued, but nothing ever prints.