Re: Epson Printer on RH7.2, A Follow-Up

[Art <art-johnson att net>]

Crutcher Dunnavant wrote:

> 
> Hmm. I've tried you're settings. They work for me. Please try the
> following magic, and tell me what happens:
> 
> as root:
> 
> cd /var/spool/lpd/Printer/
> 
> cat /usr/share/printconf/test/testpage.ps |
>  /usr/share/printconf/util/mf_wrapper 1> output 2> error
> 
> # Take a look at error, see if it has anything interesting in it.
> # If it doesn't look like its complaining, try:
> 
> cat output > /dev/lp0
> 

Oops, cockpit error.  I was in the wrong directory!  The output
of 'error' is:

 Lpdomatic backend version $Revision: 1.2 $ running...
 /usr/sbin/lpdomatic: called with arguments:
'--lprng','stc600ih.upp-26016.foo'
 /usr/sbin/lpdomatic: af=stc600ih.upp-26016.foo
 /usr/sbin/lpdomatic: options: ''
 prepending: <</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice
 /usr/sbin/lpdomatic: running: gs @stc600pl.upp -q -dBATCH -dSAFER
-dQUIET -dNOPAUSE  -sOutputFile=- -
 /usr/sbin/lpdomatic: postscript job line1=>%!PS-Adobe-2.0
 <
 /usr/sbin/lpdomatic: prepended:
 <</PageSize[612 792]/ImagingBBox null>>setpagedevice
 gs  PID pid2=1178
 foomatic-gswrapper: gs '@stc600pl.upp' '-dBATCH' '-dSAFER' '-dQUIET'
'-dNOPAUSE' '-sOutputFile=|cat     >&3' '-' 3>&1 1>&2
 closing *main::KID3
 closed *main::KID3
 tail process done writing data to *main::STDOUT

'cat output > /dev/lp0' does indeed produce the Red Hat
PostScript test page.  Sorry 'bout that.

Seems that in this mode at least, the sw is generating the
correct output, it's just not getting it to the printer.  Or?

Art