Date: Mon, 1 Apr 1996 10:40:40 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@cs.tu-berlin.de> To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) Cc: doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: HP printers Message-ID: <199604010840.KAA27784@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> In-Reply-To: <199603302158.WAA04564@uriah.heep.sax.de> References: <199603291843.NAA02951@sefl.satelnet.org> <199603302158.WAA04564@uriah.heep.sax.de>
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This should be in the FAQ. J. Wunsch writes: >If it's parallel, and all your problem is that it's terribly slow, try >setting your printer port into ``polled'' mode: > > lptcontrol -p > >Some newer HP printers are told to not work correctly in interrupt >mode, apparently due to some (not yet exactly understood) timing >problem. Slowaris is also affected by this (and that's probably the >reason why the HP support does rather act like an ``unsupport'' here).
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