[ale] multiple print quality settings

[James P. Kinney III]

Hi Bjorn,

The lpd daemon will handle multiple requests without a problem. So if
you set up a spooler for the different resolutions and pint as needed to
the spooler you want, the lpd will work just fine. 

I'm pretty sure that the Epson printers can handle the on-the-fly
resolution/settings changes. 

On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 15:59, Bjorn Dittmer-Roche wrote:
> Hey all,
> 
> 	I just spent like all day setting up my Epson Stylus C60 with my
> FreeBSD box. I'm using lpd and I can now print with lpr, but only at one
> quality setting and I'd like to be able to print at any of several of the
> printer's quality settings.
> 
> I thought I could create several virtual printers in my printcaps file,
> but I'm worried about locking if someone tries to print to both the low
> quality and high quality printer, so I gave them all the same spool
> directories hoping the lock files in there would work for that, but
> now I get:
> 
> chkprintcap: lpp and lph share the same spool, /var/spool/lpd/lp
> chkprintcap: lph and lpm share the same spool, /var/spool/lpd/lp
> chkprintcap: lpm and lpl share the same spool, /var/spool/lpd/lp
> chkprintcap: lpl and lp share the same spool, /var/spool/lpd/lp
> lpd: 4 errors in printcap file, exiting
> 
> 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? Is there annother way?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> 	bjorn
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