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Date: Tue, 19 Aug 1997 17:37:28 -0700 (PDT)
From: Annelise Anderson <andrsn@andrsn.stanford.edu>
To: Sergei Barbarash <sgt@deltathree.com>
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Subject: Re: Local printer produces empty pages
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On Tue, 19 Aug 1997, Sergei Barbarash wrote:

> 
> Hello,
> 
> I am trying to set up a local printer on a parallel port. I connected it,
> configured the spooler, everything... But when I try to print anything,
> the printer starts and just produces empty pages. I tried make the lpt0
> interrupt-driven and polled mode, I tried specifying various modes for
> the parallel port in BIOS... nothing.
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> -- Sergei

You've read the excellent handbook chapter on printing?  It really is
good.

It's hard to tell what might be wrong when you don't say what kind of
a printer it is--a postscript printer, a non-postscript, an HP Laserjet,
or whatever.  It probably needs a filter of some kind...what can you
tell us?

Annelise