Re: Baffled with papd


Subject: Re: Baffled with papd
From: Thomas Kaiser (Thomas.Kaiser@phg-online.de)
Date: Mon Jun 18 2001 - 06:15:00 EDT


on Sun, 17 Jun 2001 12:56:27 -0700 (PDT), Patrick Gardella wrote:

> My new Lexmark shows up on the Mac just fine, and I have the PPD file from
> Lexmark. If I print from the Mac to the printer, I see:
                                           ^^^^^^^
To the printer? You mean a Netatalk spooler, I think?

> papd [XXXXX] child XXXXX for Lexmark from XXXXX.XXX (Mac's atalk address)
> papd [XXXXX] child XXXXX done

Okay. At this point the printjob has been accepted and queued locally into
the lpd spooling system. What does "lpc status" say at this time?

> But it never prints anything. Nothing ever gets into lpd. And I've switched
> the "pr=" line in
> papd.conf to be both "pr=lp" and "pr=/usr/bin/lpr -Plp" Same thing.

In the latter case there is a missing pipe symbol, isn't it?

(compare <http://www.giub.unibe.ch/~eugster/appleprint.html>)

How is "lp" configured? How look your printcap's entries like?

> Printing from the FreeBSD box (-current) using "lpr" works.
> Printing from the FreeBSD box using "pap -p Lexmark test.ps" works.
> Printing to a file on the Mac, dropping it in the shared folder, and printing
> with both "lpr" and "pap" work.

Maybe a permission problem that prevents papd to communicate with lpd? In
this case 'pr="|/usr/bin/lpr -Plp"' should help.

regard,

Thomas



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