From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jan 18 07:58:39 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id HAA06525 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 07:58:39 -0800 Received: from sneezy.sri.com (sneezy.SRI.COM [128.18.40.6]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with SMTP id HAA06515 for ; Wed, 18 Jan 1995 07:58:37 -0800 Received: from rocky.MT.net.mt.net (sri.MT.net) by sneezy.sri.com (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA07459; Wed, 18 Jan 95 07:56:34 PST Received: by rocky.MT.net.mt.net (4.1/SMI-4.1) id AA06008; Wed, 18 Jan 95 08:59:51 MST Message-Id: <9501181559.AA06008@rocky.MT.net.mt.net> From: Nate Williams Date: Wed, 18 Jan 1995 08:59:51 -0700 In-Reply-To: Terry Dwyer "Re: GUS question and LPT question" (Jan 18, 10:44am) Reply-To: Nate Williams X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.5 10/14/92) To: Terry Dwyer Subject: Re: GUS question and LPT question Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk [ Shrunk the list down a bit ] > > IRQs should be used for printing iff they work. > > > > I would like to see the specs for printers that take hours to print a > > line or page. This is called by the printer acknowledging output more > > than a few microseconds or nanoseconds before it is ready. > > I've been following this discussion with interest. I don't know if it's > relevent, but Im running 1.1.5.1R with the same printer problems. I > don't have anything else but the printer on IRQ 7. I've tried two > printers, a brother M-1709 and an epson LX 800. Both exhibit the same > slow printing problems. Specs for the LX 800 should be easy enough to > obtain. BTW 1.1R had no problems with the same hardware. Hmm, I've got an LX800 and a LX810 that I've used with no problems on 1.1.5. Printing happens as fast as it can print, although the first time it prints it sets the printer into draft mode which is sometimes annoying. I'm using the cheapo multi-I/O card that I bought years ago. Nate