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SubjectRe: Printer problems on recent 2.1 kernels
> When I, for example, want to print something through ghostscript (the
> output device is "| lpr"), in 50% of all times, it works without
> any problems, but the other 50%, it simply doesn't print.
> In these cases, it's reported, that "lp0 is offline".

I had/have similar problems with lp[dr], but if you run the printcap
filter directly on what you want to print and redirect it to /dev/lp0, it
works 100% of the times (ie: cat a.ps|deskjet-ps > /dev/lp0) Why? No
clue.. I guess lpd is kinda lazy :)

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