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To: Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net>
Cc: FreeBSD Questions <FreeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Subject: Re: Epson 740/USB Revisited
References: <20030227235730.GA453@raggedclown.net>
From: Dan Pelleg <daniel+bsd@pelleg.org>
Date: 01 Mar 2003 18:21:02 -0500
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Cliff Sarginson <cls@raggedclown.net> writes:

> Some time ago a discussion took place here on the inability to use an
> Epson 740 printer on a USB port, it was a case of "it used to work" and
> then "it does not anymore" after some updates later. 
> I gave up trying.
> Well, I tried again..now months later..and guess what, it works but *only* if the printer
> is plugged into the USB port and turned on at the time you boot the
> machine. If you turn it on later, things get queued for mail, but never
> printed until after a reboot...previously things got queued and then
> disappeared from the queue as though they had been printed.
> 
> Conclusions ?
> 

I remember having those exact symptoms, until I switched to the parallel
cable a good few months ago.

I tested over USB just now, on a 4.8-PRERELEASE, and it seems to work for
me either way:

 - printer off when system boots
 - printer on when system boots


-- 

  Dan Pelleg

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