Re: HP LaserJet 5L - cannot print postscript from cmd line



On Thu, 2010-09-16 at 17:50 +0200, deloptes wrote:
michael wrote:

It is local on this machine's parallel port (I've just been in the habit
of lpr rather than lp but will that matter?). My lpstat -a gives
$ lpstat -a
laserjet accepting requests since Wed 15 Sep 2010 22:23:14 BST
and I know it's connected okay (it just prints the p/s file rather than
interprets it)

do you have cups-bsd installed? I think this was doing th lpr thing


You rock!
No idea why it was needed, but just installed cups-bsd and it printed
fine :)
Hooray & ta, M


usb or direct parallel doesn't matter. I have usb2parallel adaptor (younger
mainboard)

regards




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