Printing Problems

[French, Alastair <nospam [at] racalinst.co.uk>]

First of all let me thank all those that helped me with the serial module
problems and kernel stuff I was doing the other week, that lot is now
working correctly.

I am now using SuSE 6.1 base patched to kernel 2.2.13 (using source tree
2.2.11 and patches). I have also updated the following using the latest rpms
in the update/6.1 directory on ftp.suse.com.

lprold
apache
samba
libc
syslogd
Yast

My problems now are, that printing failed from both Samba and console, the
console has been playing up for a while. I configured a new printcap using
Yast and rewrote the smb.conf printers section.

If I now send a text file from the console (lpr) the page prints out in
landscape and small font when I use the ascii or the auto queue. If I use
the raw queue it ends up normal font and portrait but chops off the left and
top of the document. The printer is a HPLJ3P (not postscript) and I can't
find anything wrong in the printers own menu.

Printing from Win95 via Samba works in the correct orientation but ejects a
blank page at the end of the document.

I have tried a normal queue but without the aps filter and got the staircase
problem, so though I'd fix it using the filter given in the printing howto

# LOCAL no asp
lp5|ljet3: :sd=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3: :if=/var/spool/lpd/ljet3/filter: :mx#0: :lp=/dev/lp0: :sh:

filter:
#!/usr/bin/perl
while(<STDIN>){
chop $_;
print $_rn;
};
# You might also want to end with a form feed: print f;

This errors on line 4 and 6

Any ideas

Alastair

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