Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 06:38:17 -0800 (PST) From: Michael Oswell <oswell@xcert.com> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Rink Springer <rink@springer.cx>, FreeBSD Questions <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0011290634160.17130-100000@oswell.x509.com> In-Reply-To: <20001129185744.D48277@echunga.lemis.com>
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Unless I am mistaken, the default for the printcap if no :mx entry is
entered is 1mb. So it will print ~ 1mb of the data, then quit.
Adding:
:mx#0:\
as a line in your printcap should fix the problem.
On Wed, 29 Nov 2000, Greg Lehey wrote:
> [redirected to -questions; I don't consider this an in-depth technical
> question]
>
> 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?
>
> Greg
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