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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


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