From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jul 10 13:24:49 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D36E416A400 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlecic@EUnet.yu) Received: from eunet.yu (smtpclu-1.eunet.yu [194.247.192.226]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6034913C46A for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nlecic@EUnet.yu) Received: from nyx.localhost (adsl-235-248.eunet.yu [213.198.235.248]) by eunet.yu (8.13.6/8.13.6) with ESMTP id l6ADOU1I003647; Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:24:36 +0200 Message-Id: <200707101324.l6ADOU1I003647@eunet.yu> Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 15:24:23 +0200 From: Nikola Lecic To: William Bulley In-Reply-To: <20070710125257.GA61945@dell1> References: <20070710125257.GA61945@dell1> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 2.10.0 (GTK+ 2.10.13; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 6.2-RELEASE X-Face: pbl6-.[$G'Fi(Ogs2xlXP-V6{3||$Y[LOYs&~GJoikj'cVjcFC[V7du;;0~6nO= [Vi2?uU1Pq~,=Adj@,T:|"`$AF~il]J.Nz#2pU',Y7.{B;m/?{#sO^Dvo$rnmY6] Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-EUNET-AVAS-Milter-Version: 2.0.0 X-AVAS-Virus-Status: clean X-AVAS-Spamd-Symbols: BAYES_50,UNPARSEABLE_RELAY X-AVAS-Spam-Score: 0.0 Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: odd HP 1320 printer behaviour... X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2007 13:24:49 -0000 On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 08:52:57 -0400 William Bulley wrote: > I have an HP 1320 (only has USB and parallel support) hooked > to a FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE box using a USB cable. >=20 > I have configured /dev/ulpt0 into my /etc/printcap file. >=20 > Everything works fine and I am happy with this setup except > for one odd behaviour. The last page of a multi-page print > job will "linger" - somewhere - while the green light on the > HP continues to blink -- as if data were being sent to it. >=20 > The lpq(1) command reports "no entries" when run, and then > about a minute or two later, this "last page" gets printed. >=20 > Is there some configuration that I am missing? Is this an > artifact of the USB protocol? Is this the way the HP 1320 > laser printer operates? Is this a feature (or bug) of the > USB printer driver /dev/ulpt0 that is not documented? I've > read the man pages and searched using Google to see if this > is a known problem. Any suggestions will be gladly accepted. > I can live with this behaviour, but it seems very odd. Hello William, Do you have any ulpt0 configuration in /etc/rc.local? If the printer port is interrupt-driven, try polled standard mode, i.e. add lptcontrol -p -d /dev/[printer-port] to your /etc/rc.local. The kind of behaviour you described can occur in the interrupt mode (including cutting pages, printing them in chunks, etc.). Also try to switch the printer to the parallel port; if both can serve the printer, I'd always use the parallel one. If this doesn't help, please post here the content of your /etc/printcap and 'dmesg | grep ulpt0'. Nikola Le=C4=8Di=C4=87