help with printing

[Woodchuck]

On Wed, 11 Jun 2008, Michael wrote:

> 
> I have my dj870 printer working somewhat :)
> I made a copy of what apsfilter made of my /etc/printcap, and then enabling the original printcap, I added this:
> #       $OpenBSD: printcap,v 1.4 2003/03/28 21:32:30 jmc Exp $
> 
> lp|local line printer;r=300x300;q=medium;c=full;p=letter;m=auto:\
>         :lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:\
>         :mx#0:\
>         :sh:
> 
> 
> I can now print any text through lpr. 
> 
> In my .muttrc, I have:
> set print_command="/usr/bin/lpr"
> 
> The printer will print the top two lines of email (From & To) and then spit the page out. 

Phew.  This sounds like mutt is doing something wrong.  I don't use it,
so can't offer anything substantive.

> Also, after redoing the printcap, I pkg_delete apsfilter and LPRng. I had to manually delete /etc/apsfilter because pkg_delete wouldn't delete all contents of it.
> 
> I'm stuck now on what to try (for printing mutt email) unless LPRng will help, but at least I got this far. Thanks again everybody for your help.

I am not optimistic that messing with lpr or lprng, which chiefly handle
queuing, doing precious little for text, will solve the mutt problem.
Can you get mutt to print to a file?  maybe try
	set print_command="/usr/bin/cat >/tmp/printtest"

and examine what mutt puts out.

Dave
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