X-Recipient: archive-cygwin@delorie.com X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-2.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org References: <189950.11753.qm@web65613.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> <315835.54676.qm@web65606.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2008 07:18:58 -0800 (PST) From: Rick Rankin Subject: Re: Printing to network printers To: cygwin@cygwin.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <661087.76046.qm@web65611.mail.ac4.yahoo.com> Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com > From: Steve Rainbird > "Rick Rankin" wrote in message > > [snip] > > > > Well, by default it does. A couple of (hopefully) obvious questions: Is the > file you're trying to print (PRINT.BALANCES.20081203083027) a simple ASCII file, > and is the printer (IAS_HP4PBN_A) a postscript printer? > > > > --Rick > > > > > > Rick, > > Yes its a simple ascii file. > > I think its a postscript printer but even if I use lpr directly it does the same > thing (or doesn't if you see what I mean). > > -- Steve > Using lpr directly doesn't really tell you anything. If you're sending a postscript file to a non-postscript printer, I would expect it to do nothing. Likewise, sending a plain ASCII file to a postscript printer would likely print nothing. What a non-postscript printer does with a plain ASCII file depends on the printer and how it's configured, but doing nothing is a distinct possibility. If you look at the Windows printer queue after using enscript or lpr directly, does a job appear in the queue? If so, it's not an enscript/lpr issue. They're simply not the right tools for the job. In other words, they're not producing a file that is formatted correctly for your printer. If no print job shows up, then you're probably not specifying the queue correctly to enscript/lpr. Unfortunately, that's a local configuration issue and I'm not sure anyone here can help you with that. --Rick -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/