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Re: Printing to network printers


> 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


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