Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1999 10:43:13 -0500 From: John Brann <john@brann.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Printing problem with Laserjet5L/apsfilter Message-ID: <19990319104313.A33653@freebie.brann.org>
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Hi,
I am using apsfilter 5.0.1 with ghostscript 5.10 to drive a LaserJet 5L.
I am using the 'laserjet' driver in ghostscript. Running FreeBSD 3.1 RELEASE,
using the new parallel port driver:
ppc0 at 0x378 irq 7 on isa
ppc0: Generic chipset (NIBBLE-only) in COMPATIBLE mode
ppb0: IEEE1284 device found /NIBBLE
Probing for PnP devices on ppbus0:
ppbus0: <Hewlett-Packard HP LaserJet 5L/0101.03> HP ENHANCED PCL5,PJL
nlpt0: <generic printer> on ppbus 0
nlpt0: Interrupt-driven port
plip0: <PLIP network interface> on ppbus 0
Printing is fine through the 'raw' queue which apsfilter creates - Windows
machines can print successfully through Samba. [Therefore the printer
and cabling, etc. is OK]
Printing large (graphic) data - for instance from Netscape - fails. Pages
consist of about 1/3 of good output followed by one or more lines of text
garbage (smiley faces, hearts, you know the stuff).
Printing the same output multiple times does not produce the same printed
result. Sometimes more, sometimes less is printed before breaking into
garbage.
Producing an output file from Netscape (instead of sending to the printer)
creates a file which ghostview can display correctly. (So it isn't a
problem with the PostScript output).
My best guess is that the printer is running out of memory.
Any comments? Anybody have a 5L working cleanly with a similar setup?
John
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