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Subject: Re: [8-STABLE] USB printer disconnecting when trying to print
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Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> writes:

> On Fri, 21 May 2010 10:29:04 +0200
> Thomas Gellekum <Thomas.Gellekum@gmx.de> wrote:
>
>> echo "hallo" > /dev/ulpt0
>> [...]
>> Any ideas on how to debug this are welcome.
>
> Most of todays printers do NOT understand plain text, usually you need a driver which transforms whatever you want to print into
> the language the printer understands.

Sorry, I was a bit too brief here. This "echo" is just to replicate the
symptoms as seen from the kernel messages. I get the same behaviour and
kernel output from "lpr /some/file.ps" using an input filter. The
printer itself is old enough to understand ASCII text ;-).

tg