Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 18:50:15 -0500 From: Sergey Babkin <babkin@bellatlantic.net> 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: <3A259637.1CE03AFD@bellatlantic.net> References: <20001129185744.D48277@echunga.lemis.com>
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Greg Lehey wrote: > > > 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 think if you don't specify any limit explicitly the default value of 1000KB is used. Add :mx#0: to disable the limit. (By the way, maybe we should better set that default to 0 ?) -SB To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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