From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Feb 2 12:27: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from phobos.talarian.com (mailhost.talarian.com [207.5.32.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D078E37B491 for ; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:26:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from quack.kfu.com (beast.talarian.com [10.4.10.6] (may be forged)) by phobos.talarian.com (8.9.0/8.9.0) with ESMTP id MAA23964; Fri, 2 Feb 2001 12:26:32 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3A7B17EA.8030605@quack.kfu.com> Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2001 12:26:18 -0800 From: Nick Sayer User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.2-RELEASE i386; en-US; 0.7) Gecko/20010123 X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Dmitry G. Golub" Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Strange behavior of USB and ulpt printer References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dmitry G. Golub wrote: > > Because Canon's 6xxx series does not have hardware character generator, > I am printing via Ghostscript only, but with same GS configuration printer > works very well on LPT port. Have anybody any ideas? Have anybody any success > with USB printers such as Canon 6100? > > Sorry for my poor English. I hope you can understand me. > I have one success story and one failure story. I have an Epson Photo 870 that works perfectly with ulpt. Well, almost. The little program that lets you detect ink levels fails, since ulpt doesn't support a back channel. But printing is flawless. The only complaint I have is that the data set for printing a single page is HUGE on this printer, and ghostscript takes a long(er) time to chew over it. But the output is so beautiful I can't complain too much. I used to have an HP DeskJet 812C. It didn't work -- it was prone to what was clearly buffer overruns within the printer. If I added delays to the ulpt driver, it worked, but then it printed extremely slowly. I figure the Windows driver must have some sort of workaround for this issue. But then lately HP has been going the undocumented-windows-only-*nix-users-can-go-suck-eggs route anyhow, so I really have no further use for them. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message