Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:35:08 +0100 From: "Rink Springer" <rink@springer.cx> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com> Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help Message-ID: <001201c05a43$dd3bdb10$020010ac@aurum> References: <20001129185744.D48277@echunga.lemis.com>
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>
To: "Rink Springer" <rink@springer.cx>
Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" <questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:27 AM
Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help
> [redirected to -questions; I don't consider this an in-depth technical
> question]
Neither did I, but no one responded there...
>
> On Wednesday, 29 November 2000 at 21:03:10 +0100, Rink Springer wrote:
> > [Posted this to questions too, but no one appeared to know.. maybe
someone
> > here does?]
> >
> > 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.
>
> I have pretty much the same setup. Well, the CPU side is the same,
> but the printer's a Stylus 740. If you print documents of this size,
> you're probably talking about images. How do you convert the image?
> If you're using filters, let's see them. Also, you don't have a file
> size limit in /etc/printcap, do you?
I don't use any filters yet, but I am now compiling apsfilter, as
recommended by some guy on this list. I hope that'll work.
Size limitation? I tried sticking a mx=0 in the config file, but it didn't
work, so I removed it. Let me send you my printcap:
--snip--
epson|Epson Stylus Color 600:\
:sh:\
:lp=/dev/lpt0:sd=/var/spool/output/lpd:lf=/var/log/lpd-errs:
--snip--
(all commented stuff has been stripped)
Any idea why this happends?
Thanks!
--Rink
>
> Greg
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