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From: "bella lau" <yee AT hutchcity DOT com>
To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com
Subject: Problem on printing document in Cygwin
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Message-ID: <0950629550216a1GREEN@green.mcis.hutchcity.com>
Date: 22 Oct 2001 10:55:30 +0800

Hello,

I would like to ask a question about "Printing" for Cygwin in Win2000 Advanced Server Platform.

I have a Laser printer (HP 5N) which is not connected to LPT or COM port in my server. So I decided to use "Print service for Unix" (LPR command). 

I added "Print service for Unix" and a LPR port (with IP address) connected to printer. 

When I printed "test page", it run ok.

However, when I run command in Cygwin:

$lpr -S servername -P printername filename

The printer display "Load tray 2 Letter". I need to press "Go" key to print each page. The paper size used in Win2000 AServer and Printer's configure are "A4".

I don't understand why lpr command load letter size paper. Is printing in Cygwin default is "Letter" size ?

Any further setting is needed or alternative methods can be done in Cygwin. 

I try to use "print" command

$print filename
Unable to initialize device PRN

For Win2000 help, the command is 
$print /d:device: filename (device mean COM or LPT port)
As my printer is not connected to COM or LPT port, what can i do ?

Thanks for your kindly help.

yee

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