USB printer and native BSD printing system

[Jose Luis Alarcon Sanchez]

Hi all.

I have an USB printer at /dev/ulpt0, dmesg say:

ulpt0: Lexmark 730 Series, rev 2.00/1.00, addr 2, iclass 7/1
ulpt0: using bi-directional mode

CUPS is not installed and i am trying make printer work with the native 
BSD printing system. This is what have my /etc/printcap file: 

 lp|local printer:\
	:sh:\
	:lp=/dev/ulpt0:sd=/var/spool/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:

And this is 'ls -l /var/spool/lpd'

-rw-rw-r--  1 root  daemon  37 Mar 14 19:55 lock
-rw-rw-r--  1 root  daemon  25 Mar 14 19:55 status

I don't get printer work. Command 'lp file.txt' don't return any output,
'cat file.txt > /dev/ulpt0' don't return any output. Command
'cat /var/spool/lpd/status' output is:

lp is ready and printing

and this can indicate the configuration is well done. lpd is run...

I am thinking about if the cause of this problem can be the native BSD
printing system can't manage USB printers, so my concrete question to 
the list is: Can be used the BSD lpd with USB printers?.

Thanks you very much, in advance.

Regards.

Jose.


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