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- From: jvergeer@stel.csir.co.za (Johnny Vergeer)
- Newsgroups: alt.sys.sun,comp.periphs.printers,comp.sys.sun.misc
- Subject: SUMMARY : Filters and remote printers
- Keywords: filters, remote printers, printcap
- Message-ID: <jvergeer.60.722006096@stel.csir.co.za>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 13:14:57 GMT
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- I Wrote:
- >
- >I am having lots of problems getting a TCP/IP connected laser
- >printer to work correctly. The printer seems to concatenate print jobs.
- >The supplier sugested putting some sort of time delay between print jobs.
- >
- [stuff deleted ...]
- >The problem is that the filter (ng-if) never gets executed !
- >Is this because filters are ignored for remote printers ?
- >
- Thanx to all who replied via mail !! (I guess this is a FAQ :)
-
- So, filters *are* ignored for print queues configured as remote printers.
- The trick is to fool the queue into using the filter (lp=/dev/null), and
- then in the filter do the lpr -Pxxx command. The xxx queue will point
- to the remote printer.
-
- Regards
- Johnny
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