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- printcap contains BSD-style lpd printer descriptions for these printers:
-
- color (best quality color)
- coloreco (normal quality color)
- bw (best quality black)
- bweco (economy quality black)
- ascii (filter for printing ascii text files)
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-
- The printcap entries say:
- use a log file (lf) and an accounting file (af), suppress form feeds (sf),
- suppress printing of burst page header (sh) and the maximum file size is
- unlimited (mx#0). Edit these if necessary.
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- Then edit your /etc/printcap file to add the contents of printcap
- to it. (Just copy printcap to /etc/printcap, if no other printers
- are defined).
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- Now Run the shell script lpdsetup, specifying your desired paper size, e.g.:
- ./lpdsetup letter
- ./lpdsetup legal
- ./lpdsetup a4
- ./lpdsetup a3
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- This installs the filters in /usr/local/bin and creates the corresponding
- spool directories /var/spool/lpd/color, etc, You must be root to do this.
-
- You may wish to edit the options specified in the filter files
- color.if
- coloreco.if
- bw.if
- bweco.if
- ascii.if
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