Date: Mon, 8 Jan 1996 16:45:57 -0800 From: Chris Warth <csw@well.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: printer and parallel port problems Message-ID: <199601090045.QAA23758@well.com>
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Greetings, I have a HP LJ-5MP (HP Postscript printer) hooked up to my parallel port under FreebSD 2.0.5. I haven't been able to get this thing to print anything but demo pages and I've never seen any response (flashing LEDs, etc) that indicates it is even receiving data over the parallel port. I've rebooted while the printer is connected to the port, used lptcontrol to switch to polled mode (instead of interrupt). Still nothing seems to help. Can anyone suggest a simple test to see if the parallel port is even working? In the meantime I'll try to load windows to see if that can talk nicely to the printer. Also, HP's documentation claims that the LJ-5MP will automatically work with either PCL or PostScript. Does anyone know if that means the printer is ready to receive postscript at any time, or does it just mean that the drivers they supply for windows and macintosh put the printer into the right mode (through some undocumented PCL command) before printing? Thanks in advance for any suggestions. -csw
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