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Subject: RE: Problems with incomplete printing
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Pleschutznig, Andreas writes:
 > What happens with the raw print? It fails! The problem really seems to be
 > related to the length of the print request. Kind of as if the printer gets
 > reset after the lpt driver sent out all data.
 > 
 > Andy

Do you have a line or variable such as 

:mx#0: 

in /etc/printcap?  Unless you set the mx printcap variable to 0,
the printjob will have a maximum size (1MB?, don't remember
offhand).

 > > -----Original Message-----
 > > From: M. L. Dodson [mailto:bdodson@beowulf.utmb.edu]
 > > Sent: Friday, July 09, 1999 11:10 AM
 > > To: Pleschutznig, Andreas
 > > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'
 > > Subject: Problems with incomplete printing
 > > 
 > > 
 > > Pleschutznig, Andreas writes:
 > >  > Hi everybody,
 > >  >  
 > >  > I just finished setting up my home gateway system, and 
 > > server. Then I wanted
 > >  > to declare the system to be a server for everything at 
 > > home. (Disk, printer,
 > >  > ...) So far disk is working like a charm, but I'm having 
 > > slight problems
 > >  > with the setup of the printing service.
 > >  >  
 > >  > My printer is a Epson Stylus 500 and I connected it via 
 > > the parallel port
 > >  > /dev/lpt0. Printing with all goodies, like gs and 
 > > magicfilter works great as
 > >  > long as the print fits into the buffer ram of the printer. 
 > > If I try to print
 > >  > a longer printout, I only get a half way printed page. It 
 > > seems to me that
 > >  > for some reason not everything is printed. 
 > >  >  
 > > 
 > > What happens when you do the conversion from postscript to Epson
 > > code manually on the command line (for example, converting the
 > > tiger), then sending the resulting Epson code to the raw printer
 > > port?  If this works, then your lpr filter setup is likely at
 > > fault.  If the raw printer port job fails, then your ghostscript
 > > setup is suspect.
 > > 
 > > I've no experience with magicfilter, I use apsfilter, which I
 > > recommend.  However, not everyone wants to install teTeX just to
 > > prettyprint their man pages.  ;-)
 > > 
 > >  > Any hints on why my printer (system) doesn't print longer reports?
 > >  >  
 > >  > Thanks
 > >  >  
 > >  > O, BTW I'm running 3.2 stable
 > >  >  
 > >  > 
 > >  > --
 > >  > Andreas Pleschutznig
 > >  > 
 > >  > 
[deleta]
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