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Date:      Thu, 30 Nov 2000 04:42:20 +1100
From:      Danny <dannyho@bigpond.net.au>
To:        "Rink Springer" <rink@springer.cx>, <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Re: Printer problems, please help
Message-ID:  <00113004431300.00360@freebsd.freebsd.org>
References:  <001301c059e5$1d1a2750$020010ac@aurum>

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- Hello I have never had this issue when I am using the apsfilter to setup my
printers in FreeBSD
- Maybe you should try settting up your printers using apsfilter 
- you can install apsfilter from www.freebsd.org/ports


On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Rink Springer wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've installed FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE on a server here (AMD K6-2 333MHz, 64MB
> RAM), which does gatewaying, firewalling, NATd and finally, samba, samba for
> printing.
> 
> The box works like a charm, but printing doesn't. The printer connected to
> it is an Epson Stylus Color 600, hooked to /dev/lpt0. When I print the
> Windoze test page, it works (lpq happily says the file is 200KB, and it gets
> printed).
> 
> However, whenever I try to print some image that is about 1MB in the print
> queue, the printer prints a small part, and the rest will not be printed. In
> fact, the entire queue entry is gone!
> 
> Does anyone know what has caused this? I noticed some stray IRQ 7's, but
> even if I enable polling mode (using lptcontrol -p), it doesn't work. I need
> to get this printer working soon. It worked fine using RedHat Linux 6.1.
> 
> Anyone, please?
> 
> Thanks!
> --Rink
> 
> 
> 
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