Subject: Re: Printing from MacOS
To: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@netbsd.org>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/21/2001 07:50:37
On Mon, 22 Oct 2001, Henry B. Hotz wrote:
> For some time MacOS Laserwriter 8 has had the ability to create
> "Desktop Printers" which point at an lpr print server. This works
> fine with HP JetDirect print servers: You give it the IP address and
> specify the "RAW" queue and you're done.
>
> So I set up a RAW queue on a PC running NetBSD lpd to /dev/lpa0 and
> it doesn't quite work. The Mac job sends all its data just fine, and
> then gives me an error at the end. Nothing seems to happen on the
> PC. The printer activity light doesn't blink (it's an HP 1200) and
> lpq -PRAW shows nothing afterward.
I think you can turn on logging in lpd. Try that. or try tcpdump'ing the
printer tcp port (capturing the lpr transfer).
> The printer seems to work fine with enscript -PRAW on the NetBSD
> side, but the activity light continues to blink for some time after
> the job is done. There doesn't seem to be any way to lock the
> printer into Postscript-only mode, but I'm still looking at the
> documentation since I can't print it. ;-)
Don't know.
Take care,
Bill