Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:21:21 +0100 From: "Rink Springer" <rink@springer.cx> To: "Mike Smith" <msmith@freebsd.org> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help Message-ID: <000901c05a41$f0249fc0$020010ac@aurum> References: <200011290827.eAT8RAF28445@mass.osd.bsdi.com>
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----- Original Message ----- From: "Mike Smith" <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Rink Springer" <rink@springer.cx> Cc: <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Sent: Wednesday, November 29, 2000 9:27 AM Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help > Sounds like you're overflowing the printer's buffer. When you say "it > worked fine" under RedHat, did you actually attempt to print a large job? Yup, I did, and it worked nicely. > > The queue entry is "gone" because it's all been sent to the printer. Ah... but why doesn't the printer do it then? > > I suspect that you may need to enable "banding" mode in your printer > driver, or similar. It's hard to guess, but you can be fairly certain > that FreeBSD isn't just "dropping" your print job (especially if the page > feeds correctly at the end). And have you any idea how? The paper just remains stuck into the printer, as if the printer keeps waiting for data. Help! Thanks, --Rink > > -- > ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his > rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want > to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force > people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] > V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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