[ale] multiple print quality settings

[Bjorn Dittmer-Roche]

On Tue, 9 Sep 2003, Stephan Uphoff wrote:

>
>
> Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> > I just spent like all day setting up my Epson Stylus C60 with my
> > FreeBSD box.
> ...
> > Is it safe to give them all seperate spool directories or will lpd try to
> > access multiple printers (even though they are all the same /dev) at the
> > same time?
>
> Should work since the second open will fail for the lp device.
> ( I believe this will also generate a log message in FreeBSD )
>
> The second printer daemon will retry opening the device with exponential
> backoff.
> ( 1 sec, 2 sec, 4 sec ....)
>

Hmmmm. I did that and when I printed a one page doc to each of two
"printers" I only got one copy. Tried it again and now I get:

saturn:/var/spool/lpd> cat lp/status
lp is ready and printing
saturn:/var/spool/lpd> cat lpm/status
lpm is ready and printing

meanwhile the printer is actually stuck with a page in it. Hmmmm.

/var/log/messeges give some stuff like this:
Sep  9 20:55:25 saturn lpd[27266]: restarting lpm
Sep  9 20:55:27 saturn last message repeated 3 times
Sep  9 20:55:28 saturn lpd[27266]: lpm: job could not be printed
(cfA002saturn.xoaudio.com)

Hmmmm.

> > Is there annother way?
>
> I think that cups can do what you want. (cups is in ports/print)
>

But I spent so long with lpd! Perhaps I'll wait until I rebuild that
machine (which I'm planning to do next week anyway) and do it right.

I'll let you know how that goes. Thanks a bunch!

	bjorn