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(Msg. 1) Posted: Thu Sep 23, 2004 9:21 pm
Post subject: [ help please ] - I can't print
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I have tried to setup my old Epson Laser EPL-5700 printer.
I have followed the printing section of the FreeBSD Handbook as well as
the Printing Troubleshooting part. Here's the problem:
When I type
lptest > /dev/lpt0
my printer prints a normal line with numbers and letters. Then, when I type
lptest 20 5 | lpr -Pepson
it won't print anything. The "form feed" blinks however when I send this
command.
Here's my input filter:
# ee /usr/local/libexec/if-simple
#!/bin/sh
#
# if-simple - Simple text input filter for lpd
# Installed in /usr/local/libexec/if-simple
#
# Simply copies stdin to stdout. Ignores all filter arguments.
/bin/cat && exit 0
exit 2
And here's my printcap file:
# ee /etc/printcap
epson|lp:\
:sh:sd=/var/spool/epson:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:\
:if=/usr/local/libexec/if-simple:\
:lf:
Here's some other info:
cd /var/spool/epson
# ls
.seq lock status
The lpd daemon is also on.
Thanks a bunch,
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(Msg. 2) Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 12:57 am
Post subject: Re: [ help please ] - I can't print [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Charles wrote:
> I have tried to setup my old Epson Laser EPL-5700 printer.
> I have followed the printing section of the FreeBSD Handbook as well as
> the Printing Troubleshooting part. Here's the problem:
>
> When I type
>
> lptest > /dev/lpt0
>
> my printer prints a normal line with numbers and letters. Then, when I type
>
> lptest 20 5 | lpr -Pepson
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> it won't print anything. The "form feed" blinks however when I send this
> command.
It's working normally. When your printer receives less than 60 lines,
you need to send a form feed to get it to eject the partial page. On
some printers you can press the form feed button. (60 lines is a
pageful on most laser printers.)
Fancier input filters will generate a form feed for you, or you can send
it manually:
perl -e 'print chr(12)' | lpr -Pepson
I use enscript to produce nicely-formatted PostScript output. If your
printer isn't PostScript, you could feed the enscript output to
Ghostscript.
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(Msg. 3) Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 6:59 am
Post subject: Re: [ help please ] - I can't print [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:57:52 -0000
Warren Block wrote:
> Fancier input filters will generate a form feed for you, or you can send
> it manually:
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> perl -e 'print chr(12)' | lpr -Pepson
Using perl for this is a sledgehammer to crack a nut - here is a
filter that adds a form feed.
#!/bin/sh
/bin/cat
/bin/echo -n ^L
NB: that ^L is produced in vi by typing <ctrl>-V<ctrl>-L.
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(Msg. 4) Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 10:08 am
Post subject: Re: [ help please ] - I can't print [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On 2004-09-24, Warren Block wrote:
[snip]
> It's working normally. When your printer receives less than 60 lines,
> you need to send a form feed to get it to eject the partial page. On
> some printers you can press the form feed button. (60 lines is a
> pageful on most laser printers.)
Time for a bit of ObPedantry: If your paper format is letter. The lj5k
I last counted rows on did 65 in default config with the default font,
and with minor twiddling of margins I had 66.
> Fancier input filters will generate a form feed for you, or you can send
> it manually:
>
> perl -e 'print chr(12)' | lpr -Pepson
You don't need perl to print a single character:
printf '\014' | lpr
(ascii(7) is helpful if you're too lazy to do the ->octal math)
> I use enscript to produce nicely-formatted PostScript output. If your
> printer isn't PostScript, you could feed the enscript output to
> Ghostscript.
Oh woe, why are not all printers postscript. Anyway, thanks for that
one, it looks useful. EG to print (letter formatted) RFCs on A4. (*sigh*)
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(Msg. 5) Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 11:49 am
Post subject: Re: My updated file [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Em Fri, 24 Sep 2004 00:57:52 -0000, Warren Block
escreveu:
> Charles wrote:
>> I have tried to setup my old Epson Laser EPL-5700 printer.
>> I have followed the printing section of the FreeBSD Handbook as well as
>> the Printing Troubleshooting part. Here's the problem:
>>
>> When I type
>>
>> lptest > /dev/lpt0
>>
>> my printer prints a normal line with numbers and letters. Then, when I
>> type
>>
>> lptest 20 5 | lpr -Pepson
>>
>> it won't print anything. The "form feed" blinks however when I send this
>> command.
>
> It's working normally. When your printer receives less than 60 lines,
> you need to send a form feed to get it to eject the partial page. On
> some printers you can press the form feed button. (60 lines is a
> pageful on most laser printers.)
>
> Fancier input filters will generate a form feed for you, or you can send
> it manually:
>
> perl -e 'print chr(12)' | lpr -Pepson
>
> I use enscript to produce nicely-formatted PostScript output. If your
> printer isn't PostScript, you could feed the enscript output to
> Ghostscript.
>
Ok, I then tried to print a document with OpenOffice.org, and I only get
headers in a staired way.
I 've been trying to find help here:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/printing-tro...eshooti
I also found out that my Epson printer has this escape code: either "CR"
or "13"
This is my updated input filter file:
printf "13" && /bin/cat && printf "\f" && exit 0
exit 2
The printer won't print anything else than staired headers :'(
Thanks,
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(Msg. 6) Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:41 pm
Post subject: Re: [ help please ] - I can't print [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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jpd wrote:
> On 2004-09-24, Warren Block wrote:
> [snip]
>> It's working normally. When your printer receives less than 60 lines,
>> you need to send a form feed to get it to eject the partial page. On
>> some printers you can press the form feed button. (60 lines is a
>> pageful on most laser printers.)
>
> Time for a bit of ObPedantry: If your paper format is letter. The lj5k
> I last counted rows on did 65 in default config with the default font,
> and with minor twiddling of margins I had 66.
I had even started to write a note about fonts and then deleted it as
too much detail. Oh well.
>> Fancier input filters will generate a form feed for you, or you can send
>> it manually:
>>
>> perl -e 'print chr(12)' | lpr -Pepson
>
> You don't need perl to print a single character:
>
> printf '\014' | lpr
Or echo "ctrl-Vctrl-L", but that's harder to explain. It still bugs me
that echo doesn't understand \n and so forth. At one point, I remember
finding a reason for that, but don't recall it now.
> (ascii(7) is helpful if you're too lazy to do the ->octal math)
But using Perl skips that step, and chr(12) has meant form feed to me
for a long time. Besides which, I enjoy smashing little problems with a
big hammer.
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(Msg. 7) Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:51 pm
Post subject: Re: My updated file [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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Charles wrote:
> Ok, I then tried to print a document with OpenOffice.org, and I only get
> headers in a staired way.
The stairstepping is classic Unix linefeed versus carriage return;
there's a note about it in the printing section of the Handbook.
What do you mean by "headers"? OpenOffice may just print in PostScript.
If so, you'll have to get Ghostscript involved here. And you'll likely
need it for other stuff anyway. PostScript should start with "%!PS".
So install either /usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu-nox11 or
/usr/ports/print/ghostscript-gnu.
Then you need an input filter, which isn't too hard:
http://groups.google.com/groups?&selm=slrnamid60.113d.wblock%40w0nkity...nkity.c
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(Msg. 8) Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 7:52 pm
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On 2004-09-24, Charles wrote:
> Ok, I then tried to print a document with OpenOffice.org, and I only get
> headers in a staired way.
[snip]
> I also found out that my Epson printer has this escape code: either "CR"
You're misunderstanding the problem. Try this snippet on for size:
--->8-- addcr.awk -----
#!/usr/bin/awk -f
{ printf "%s\r\n", $0 }
----8<----
What it does? It reads each line (which, on unices, only ends in one LF,
or \n, or decimal 10, or hex 0xA, or octal \012) and your printer wants
a CR, (or dec 13, hex 0xD, or octal \015), too: The LF advances a row,
but the cursor doesn't get reset to the start of line, which is what the
CR does. You could write it in sh(1), too, but I'm lazy. It can also
easily be amended to emit a form-feed character at the end.
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(Msg. 9) Posted: Fri Sep 24, 2004 8:00 pm
Post subject: Re: My updated file [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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On 2004-09-24, Warren Block wrote:
> Charles wrote:
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>> Ok, I then tried to print a document with OpenOffice.org, and I only get
>> headers in a staired way.
>
> The stairstepping is classic Unix linefeed versus carriage return;
> there's a note about it in the printing section of the Handbook.
>
> What do you mean by "headers"? OpenOffice may just print in PostScript.
> If so, you'll have to get Ghostscript involved here. And you'll likely
> need it for other stuff anyway. PostScript should start with "%!PS".
Oops, interpreter problem. Charles'd better fix that instead of worrying
about the stairstepping. I'd retract my other post but for the explanation
being valid when one does want to print plain text.
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(Msg. 10) Posted: Sun Sep 26, 2004 4:42 pm
Post subject: Re: [ help please ] - I can't print [Login to view extended thread Info.]
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In article ,
jpd wrote:
% You don't need perl to print a single character:
%
% printf '\014' | lpr
%
% (ascii(7) is helpful if you're too lazy to do the ->octal math)
Even more useful is the built-in form-feed escape character
printf '\f' | lpr
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(Msg. 11) Posted: Mon Sep 27, 2004 4:25 pm
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On 2004-09-26, Patrick TJ McPhee wrote:
> In article ,
> jpd wrote:
> % You don't need perl to print a single character:
> %
> % printf '\014' | lpr
> %
> % (ascii(7) is helpful if you're too lazy to do the ->octal math)
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> Even more useful is the built-in form-feed escape character
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> printf '\f' | lpr
And I'd assumed since it doesn't take \0x it doesn't take fancier stuff.
Should've checked the manual. 
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