From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 29 0:35:17 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from minerva.springer.cx (cgmd77002.chello.nl [212.83.77.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id A631537B402 for ; Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:35:12 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 18496 invoked from network); 29 Nov 2000 09:32:44 -0000 Received: from aurum.rinkspringer.org (HELO aurum) (172.16.0.2) by minerva.springer.cx with SMTP; 29 Nov 2000 09:32:44 -0000 Message-ID: <001201c05a43$dd3bdb10$020010ac@aurum> From: "Rink Springer" To: "Greg Lehey" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" References: <20001129185744.D48277@echunga.lemis.com> Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:35:08 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Lehey" To: "Rink Springer" Cc: "FreeBSD Questions" 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 > -- > When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > If you don't, I may ignore the reply. > For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key > See complete headers for address and phone numbers > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message