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Printing text and graphics to a Samba Epson Stylus 400

Post by Sean Cod » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00



I cannot seem to figure out how to print from my linux box to my printer
(which is on another machine that's running windows 95).  I tried using the
info supplied in smb's howto but that didn't work at all.

If I use smbclient I can print text but that's about it.. (and I don't want
to have to go through smbclient by hand every time I want to print
something in Netscape or WordPerfect).

I have a an: Epson Stylus Color 400 on //mywinbox/epson

This printer problem is what is keeping me from exclusivly running linux on
my development machine though to print things out I currently have to
switch to a windows box.

Arg any help?/

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Printing text and graphics to a Samba Epson Stylus 400

Post by a_do.. » Sun, 31 Dec 1899 09:00:00


Hello.
Frankly saying, information you've given is not enough at all.
Try reading printing-howto and smb-howto in /usr/doc/howto - it realy
can help! ;-)  Well, now how it works for me:

donda:/etc$ cat printcap
# /etc/printcap: printer capability database. See printcap(5).
# You can use the filter entries df, tf, cf, gf etc. for
# your own filters. See /etc/filter.ps, /etc/filter.pcl and
# the printcap(5) manual page for further details.

# remote printer on WinNT box - just what you need
lp|ljp|HP LaserJet 6p:\
        :lp=/dev/null:\
        :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljp:\
        :sh:\
        :if=/usr/local/sbin/laserif:

donda:/usr/local/sbin$ cat laserif
#!/bin/sh
/usr/local/sbin/converter | /usr/bin/smbclient \\\\NTserver\\HPLaserJ
-i78 -P -U valid_user%his_password -c 'printmode graphics;print -'

donda:/usr/local/sbin$ cat converter
#!/bin/sh

read first_line
first_two_chars=`expr "$first_line" : '\(..\)'`
if [ "$first_two_chars" = "%!" ]; then
  /usr/bin/gs -r600 -dSAFER -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=lj5mono -sOutputFile=-
-sPAPERSIZE=a4 - && exit 0
else
  echo $first_line > /var/spool/tmp/killme && cat >>
/var/spool/tmp/killme && /usr/bin/a2gs -p -N /var/spool/tmp/killme |
/usr/local/sbin/converter && exit 0
fi
exit 2

There should be a way of arranging converter and laserif in a single
script and making converter work more efficient, but I'm too lazy to
change what's working fine for me ;-)



Quote:> I cannot seem to figure out how to print from my linux box to my
printer
> (which is on another machine that's running windows 95).  I tried
using the
> info supplied in smb's howto but that didn't work at all.

> If I use smbclient I can print text but that's about it.. (and I don't
want
> to have to go through smbclient by hand every time I want to print
> something in Netscape or WordPerfect).

> I have a an: Epson Stylus Color 400 on //mywinbox/epson

> This printer problem is what is keeping me from exclusivly running
linux on
> my development machine though to print things out I currently have to
> switch to a windows box.

> Arg any help?/

> ------------------  Posted via CNET Linux Help  ------------------
>                     http://www.searchlinux.com

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1. Printing with an Epson Stylus Color 400

I am posting this as Caldera support have said that they are beaten.
Many apologies for the length of the posting, but I thought you would
like as much info as possible right from the start.

I have Caldera OpenLinux 1.1 installed, with the KDE desktop.

The printer is installed according to the recommendations at:

http://www.caldera.com/support/techguide/styluscolor.html

This means that GhostScript 5.10 is installed, and that lpr is supposed
to use the following filter which I have in /var/spool/lpd/ps/filter:

#!/bin/sh

UPP=stc
PAPERSIZE=a4

if [ "$PAPERSIZE" = "a4" ]; then
    T=A4
else
    T=US
fi

if [ -x /usr/bin/nenscript ]; then
    nenscript -T$T -ZB -p-
else
    if [ "$T" = "US" ]; then
        T="Letter"
    fi
    enscript -M $T -Z -p -
fi |
        exec 3>&1 1>&2

exit 0

/etc/printcap says:

##PRINTTOOL## LOCAL stcolor 720x720 a4 {}
ps:\
    :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ps:\
    :mx#0:\
    :lp=/dev/lp1:\
    :if=/var/spool/lpd/ps/filter:\
    :sh:
##PRINTTOOL## LOCAL
lp:\
:sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
:mx#0:\
:lp=/dev/lp1:\
:sh:

If I call nenscript on a text file and direct the output to a file, it
produces a PostScript file i.e.

nenscript -TA4 -ZB -pprintcap.ps /etc/printcap

works OK.

If I now call GhostScript on the PostScript file


It prints the file OK.  (Well it omits the first 3 lines actually, but
at least what it does print is correct - Courier 10 etc).  Similarly if
I use the same command on any of the GhostScript example files (e.g.
tiger.ps), they print just fine.

However, if I try to use lpr to print any kind of file I get no output
at all.  lpr goes to the filter OK (i.e. I can add a command to the
start of filter like `echo "In filter"` and it prints it (to the printer
- so presumably stdout is to the printer -- inherited from lpr??).  It
also prints the GS> prompt.

If I put the "echo" command in the "if" statement, it does not print (or
in the else) - presumably it gets lost in the pipe somewhere.

If anyone can help I will be eternally grateful and possibly for longer.

Regards

Peter

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