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From: nvp@shore.net (Nathan V. Patwardhan)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Printing
Date: 1 Nov 1996 15:41:42 GMT
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Michael Hughes (mhughes@bridge.com) wrote:
:   I am having problems printing to my laser printer.  If I connect my laser
: printer to my computer and try to print something, nothing happens.  If I do
: lpq, it tells my printer is off line.  No it I connect my dot martix printer
: to the same port, it works.  The laser printer works on this port from DOS.
: Can anyone help me out?

Is lpd running?  What's in your /etc/printcap?  Do you have an entry
for your laser printer?

Nate P
nvp@shore.net