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PostPosted: Thu Mar 06, 2003 10:13 am    Post subject: Printing - paralell port epson Reply with quote

I have an old epson stylus 640, which i have connected to the parallel port of my laptop.

If I modprobe lp, then /dev/lp0 appears, and I can copy a text file to /dev/lp0 and have it print.

But getting it working under cups is more difficult. It appears to be configured, but when I print a test page, the printer starts off in a happy mode, but only for the first 10mm or so. After this, it pauses, and every 100 secs or so, it adds some ink to the border of the test page, then pauses, then goes over this area again, and so on.

I have no idea what is happening.

I also tried printing from kwrite, here the printer does nothing.
Here's the output from ps -ef:
Code:

oot      2057     1  0 08:45 ?        00:00:04 /usr/sbin/cupsd
allym     2279     1  0 08:46 ?        00:00:00 /usr/kde/3.1/bin/kdesud
lp        2308  2057  0 08:48 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic 41 allym Untitled 1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies orientation-requested=3
allym     2309     1  0 08:48 ?        00:00:33 kdeinit: kjobviewer -d Local640C --noshow
root      2310  2057  0 08:48 ?        00:00:00 epson:/dev/lp0 41 allym Untitled 1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies orientation-requested=3
lp        2311  2308  0 08:48 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic 41 allym Untitled 1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies orientation-requested=3
lp        2312  2311  0 08:48 ?        00:00:00 /usr/bin/perl /usr/lib/cups/filter/cupsomatic 41 allym Untitled 1 multiple-document-handling=separate-documents-collated-copies orientation-requested=3
lp        2313  2311  0 08:48 ?        00:00:00 sh -c gs '-dPARANOIDSAFER' '-dNOPAUSE' '-dBATCH' '-sDEVICE=stp' '-sModel=escp2-640' '-sOutputFile=/dev/fd/3' '/dev/fd/0' 3>&1 1>&2

Some of those lines may be truncated :-(

Can anyone help. Printing is the most difficult thing I have found under Linux, and particularly under Gentoo.
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PostPosted: Wed Mar 12, 2003 10:44 am    Post subject: Anyone? Reply with quote

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