Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 00:35:53 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Rink Springer" <rink@springer.cx> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Printer problems, please help Message-ID: <200011290835.eAT8ZrF28488@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 29 Nov 2000 21:21:21 %2B0100." <000901c05a41$f0249fc0$020010ac@aurum>
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> > Sounds like you're overflowing the printer's buffer. When you say "it
> > worked fine" under RedHat, did you actually attempt to print a large job?
> Yup, I did, and it worked nicely.
Then I'd suggest that if you can't debug this, you go back to RedHat. If
it does the job, etc...
> > The queue entry is "gone" because it's all been sent to the printer.
> Ah... but why doesn't the printer do it then?
There are any number of reasons; printer crash, comms error, etc.
> > I suspect that you may need to enable "banding" mode in your printer
> > driver, or similar. It's hard to guess, but you can be fairly certain
> > that FreeBSD isn't just "dropping" your print job (especially if the page
> > feeds correctly at the end).
> And have you any idea how? The paper just remains stuck into the printer, as
> if the printer keeps waiting for data.
Well, that's an entirely different failure mode, and it looks like you're
not getting all the data out to the printer. I don't have any ideas at
this point; there are a lot of possibilities and you'll have to sort
through them one at a time.
eg. print to a file and then print the file on the BSD box using lpr.
Does it all print? If so, you have issues with Samba. If not, you have
issues with lpr/lpd/printer comms. And so forth...
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