From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: Date: Tue, 26 Jul 2005 08:06:14 -0400 From: Russ Cox To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu> Subject: Re: [9fans] Newbie question on printing In-Reply-To: <954853031a0cf97c301740a691d34b4e@tombob.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <954853031a0cf97c301740a691d34b4e@tombob.com> Topicbox-Message-UUID: 6f1b068c-ead0-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > clp550n_ps robbys-room clp550n A4_LPQ - post+600dpi+nohea= d generic lpdspool lpd - - FIFO > I have two simple questions, so I can understand what is happening. > The A4_LPQ, what does that do? It is in the OUT_DEV field but ain't a > device, and just guessing I would assume it names the queue to use. > Is that correct? =20 Yes. > Could that be any text, or does the LPD in the > printer have ideas on how to name and handle queues? In theory you should set it to "raw", but in practice it never seems to mat= ter. http://tinyurl.com/dwul2 > Second, is it good practice to have the machine name of the printer > (/lib/ndb/local entry) be different from the /sys/lib/lp/devices > printer name? I know that I can add more "virtual" printers to turn > on duplex and color and what not. I'm with you on this one. I prefer keeping the names the same, but maybe the _ps suffix is common elsewhere. The rest of the system doesn't care. Russ