Dear Grass experts,
I wonder if someone could tell me how to set up a printer that is not
attached
to a machine through a tty device but has it's own ip address and prints
with
the lpr program. I would like to be able to use it for output with
p.map and
p.map new. It is a tekrtonix phaser 360. The installation manual does
not
seem to give this option, only printers directly attached to a machine's port.
I have been able to send to the printer output from ps.map but I would like
to use output from p.map.new because it gives more display options.
OS/ Iris 6.3
GRass version 4.2 v.19 binary distr.
Thank you
Francisco Estrada Belli
Boston University -Archaeology
Francisco Estrada Belli wrote:
Dear Grass experts,
I wonder if someone could tell me how to set up a printer that is not
attached
to a machine through a tty device but has it's own ip address and prints
with
the lpr program. I would like to be able to use it for output with
[...]
I print all through a HP Laser postscript printer on our local
Ethernet network. What I have done :
1- set up the printer (give him an IP address, +etc)
2- give a name to the printer (hplaser here) in the DNS server
(or in /etc/hosts if you want to print even when your DNS server
goes down :-()
3- update /etc/printcap and restart the lpd daemon. Here is the
content of mine. look at the manual (printcap, section 5) for
options detail and customizing (you need perhaps other settings)
lp|postscript:\
:lp=:rm=hplaser:sd=/usr/spool/lp:sh:mx#0:\
:af=/usr/adm/lp-acct:lf=/usr/adm/lpd-errs:
Hope this can help you,
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