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Date:      Tue, 28 Dec 1999 13:54:33 +0100 (CET)
From:      Konrad Heuer <kheuer@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
To:        Tomas Furmonavicius <f1926@kaunas.aiva.lt>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Printing problems
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9912281350160.61427-100000@gwdu60.gwdg.de>
In-Reply-To: <99122813184901.00278@briviba.lt>

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On Tue, 28 Dec 1999, Tomas Furmonavicius wrote:

> I'm having problems with printing under FBSD 3.3.
> When I'm trying to print PS file through Ghostscript,  printer starts pri=
nting
> fine, but then starts to print "rubish". My printer is HP DJ670C, tried G=
S 5.50
> and 5.10 with cdj670 and cdj550 drivers. GS under AIX and Linux worked OK=
 for
> me with Epson and HP printers. What's wrong with it on BSD?

You should try to switch your parallel port to polled mode
(/usr/sbin/lptcontrol, see `man lptcontrol'). I had similar problems in
some cases with interrupt-driven mode (default) of the parallel port.

Regards

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