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Topic: HELP!  Printer settings not retained!, I keep having to set things up again!< Next Oldest | Next Newest >
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Posted: June 19 2008,21:00 QUOTE

Every time I get the printer set up, it somehow manages to fail sometime later, and I have NO IDEA why.  It seems that there's just one little thing that I keep missing, and I have no idea what it is.

I have no difficulty printing the test page, but I can't seem to print anything else.  The DSL menu -> System -> Printer/lpd -> start procedure and the "export PRINTER=lp" command aren't enough to fix things.

The contents of the env command do show PRINTER=lp

The contents of my .filetool.lst file (relevant to printing) are:
opt/printcap
opt/apsfilter
var/spool/lpd/lp

The contents of opt/printcap are:
# APS1_BEGIN:printer1
# - don't delete start label for apsfilter printer1
# - no other printer defines between BEGIN and END LABEL
lp|stp/escp2-740;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\
   :lp=/dev/usb/lp0:\
   :if=/usr/etc/apsfilter/basedir/bin/apsfilter:\
   :sd=/var/spool/lpd/lp:\
   :lf=/var/spool/lpd/lp/log:\
   :af=/var/spool/lpd/lp/acct:\
   :mx#0:\
   :sh:
# APS1_END - don't delete this

HELP!  What's the one critical thing I'm missing?  Could someone PLEASE list everything I need to check when things aren't printing?


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Posted: June 19 2008,21:01 QUOTE

The directory /ramdisk/var/spool/lpd has no files.  I'm thinking that this has something to do with my problem.  But what?  What should be in this directory, and how do I get the appropriate content in?

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